Bulwell

[Jill Sparrow 10,303]

You haven't changed much!

[David sheridan 159]

@benjamin1945 even at tender age yer giving the thumbs up to the ladies , what a right little lothario  you became !!!!!

[benjamin1945 16,139]

Consider mesen a lucky fella @davidsheridan..to grow up and spend most of my life with my lovely Aunts and female cousins always preferred female company because of them...Nel..Doris..Rose,,Connie...Margaret...Gwen...they were my Bulwell Aunts....all great characters,,,

All now gone but never will be forgotten.....for there Laughter...singing and dancing....

[Cliff Ton 10,454]

19 minutes ago, benjamin1945 said:

...Nel..Doris..Rose,,Connie...Margaret...Gwen..

 

A good example of how names go in and out of fashion.

 

Rose is fairly popular now, but I'll bet there have been very few of the others in recent years.

[benjamin1945 16,139]

Always found names remind you of a certain era.......all of the above were born in the 20s and 30s.....and their female children have names from the 40s and early 50s........

Brenda...Linda...Carol...Angela...Mary...Ann...June...Shirley...Joy....Helen...Christine and Donna.........and thats just the female cousins........

 

Edit...oh just remembered some more.....don't worry though won't list them.....to say nowt of second Cousins....lol

[Cliff Ton 10,454]

The list you've just posted is a perfect example of girls names when I was at Infants and Junior Schools, in the first half of the 1960s.

[Jill Sparrow 10,303]

Names at Berridge during my time were: Susan, Jane/Jayne, John, Peter, Michael, Stephen/Steven,  Christopher and Colin .

 

No boys at Manning, of course, but every other girl was called Julie or Sharon, with the occasional Elizabeth thrown in.

[loppylugs 8,427]

Late wife's name was Janet.  Born mid forties, like me.  second wife,  Mrs Loppy, also Janet.  Guess I've always liked the name.  Also born in forties.  Not a name you hear much today.

[MargieH 7,599]

Some of the very much older girls’ names are coming back though .  I know a few young girls called Emily, Amy, Charlotte, Emma, Alice and even one called Mabel…

[philmayfield 6,115]

My wife is Vivienne, her sisters are Valerie and Veronica and Veronica’s daughters are Victoria, Vanessa and Verity. They all have the same middle initial ‘A’. How stupid is that!

[MargieH 7,599]

The family obviously has a V obsession, but if that’s what they choose, then that’s fine.

is your daughter a V as well?

[philmayfield 6,115]

Jocelyn 

[Jill Sparrow 10,303]

I was at primary school with a Jocelyn. She's the only one I've ever met. I believe it can also serve as a boy's name.

[philmayfield 6,115]

She doesn’t use it and answers to Jos!

[MRS B 510]

My Aunty was Audrey Jocelyn. She of the understudy to Valerie Hobson the actress. She looked very like her

[Beekay 5,134]

Wasn't she John Profumo's missus.?

[MRS B 510]

Valerie Hobson was yes Beekay, not my Aunty LOL

[Beekay 5,134]

That's who I meant, O Devine one.

[David sheridan 159]

Once new a Scottish guy called jock strapp !

[philmayfield 6,115]

I genuinely do know a Scotsman called Matthew Haggis. We sometimes stay at one of his cottages in Argyle.

[Jill Sparrow 10,303]

And if you want to book for Easter, you'd better get a spurtle on!

[philmayfield 6,115]

A spurtle I have and also a skean dhu. 

[Beekay 5,134]

I'm so glad you've said that Phil, it was one of the crossword answers and I didn't know how to spell it. You shouda been an interpreter.

[David sheridan 159]

On 2/28/2023 at 10:48 PM, benjamin1945 said:

Here you are David...............the Bogs in all its majestic glory....

Old Jaqui hey !!!.........lovely gel......The Bogs still there........always wiil be.......

Wow thanks Ben pretty much as I remember it , thinking of my romance there is stirring me old loins , yes they do get stirred occasionally,  I used to have me snap there in my lunch break ,when I worked briefly in a stocking hosiery factory on Greasley Street,  I was a shy young Un and the gals that worked there used to rip the fun out of me , enough to make me cheeks red !!!!!!

[David sheridan 159]

Spurtle on ? Never heard that , but gerra, spurt on lad , or you'd better dab in as me dear old dad used to say , me dad used to say comb yer hair you look like the wild man of Borneo , and to me brother who seldom cut his toe nails he'd say , cut those toe nails yer look like fu manchu  !!!!!