Brew 5,412 Posted July 10, 2022 Report Share Posted July 10, 2022 Turn-ups on trousers? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,280 Posted July 10, 2022 Report Share Posted July 10, 2022 4 hours ago, Brew said: Turn-ups on trousers? Wore my Summer weight suit last week avec turn-ups. Perfect along with the genuine Panama. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
woody 552 Posted July 10, 2022 Report Share Posted July 10, 2022 Won't be touching Ovaltine again after seeing that ad BK! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David sheridan 159 Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 Wow so now ovaltine makes you mince your walk and your words now ducky ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 David, That’s a very stereotypical view of a gay man! The gay men I’ve known aren’t remotely like that…. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,141 Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 What about this one Margie? Yet another genuine advert. B. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,155 Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 Remember this 'Instrumental' from my 15th birthday in 1960.... Mam and Dad said i could invite a few Pals round for a little party.....and they told me no drinking or smoking ...and they went out for the evening....... Keith bought the Beer...Harry loads of Fags...and Hazel 2 bottles of 'Emva cream''.............from memory there were about 10 girls and 5 lads....... The other record i remember from that night was ''Running Bear'' (still got it).......great night music.. Dancing...Postmans knock... Mam had just had new 'Lino' laid and was very proud of it...shame most of the girls wore ''High Heels'' and just about ruined it.......she eventually forgave me..... Edit......just realised put this on wrong thread.......anyway you dont see much ''Lino'' anymore......lol 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 Which thread should it have been in ? It seems to fit here ok. It's things you don't see anymore, and I assume you've finally stopped having parties with 10 girls and 5 boys. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,155 Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 What you listening to?........but as you say cliff ton ..it fits here as well...probably more so..... Yes stopped having Parties....of any kind.......still see a couple of the girls though in Bulwell........ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David sheridan 159 Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 3 hours ago, MargieH said: David, That’s a very stereotypical view of a gay man! The gay men I’ve known aren’t remotely like that…. It was stereo typical again on the bus home last night as i had to sit between two drag queens margie !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 David - but a drag Queen is different from an ‘ordinary’ (for want of a better word) homosexual person.’ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trogg 2,016 Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 2 hours ago, benjamin1945 said: Yes stopped having Parties That is something I dont see anymore, just to bring the thread back to stop the driff, someone banned me from them years ago . It appears I cannot be trusted. Ben we both have a likening to parties and Bulwell ladies. God bless them. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David sheridan 159 Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 @MargieH well you get my drift, it was still in stereo typically enough ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David sheridan 159 Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 Talking of parties , i tell you what you don't see anymore , Ben on his way to Bulwell with a keg of party seven tucked under his arm !!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,280 Posted July 12, 2022 Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 Coal miner going home on bus still wearing helmet and black with coal dust. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted July 12, 2022 Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 For a great example of that (and a policeman going home in uniform) watch this from 1:44 - 1:54. https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-old-market-square-1951-online 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,155 Posted July 12, 2022 Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Cliff Ton said: For a great example of that (and a policeman going home in uniform) watch this from 1:44 - 1:54. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdNGzE47Fhg&t=24s That was the finest set of films and pictures of old Nottingham ive ever seen.......thanks cliff ton...... Combined with the music it bought a lump to my throat...and if i was sentimental ''a tear to my eye''........... Made me realise although ive lived all over......Nottingham my birth place will be with me forever...... 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted July 12, 2022 Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 Wonderful archive film! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,141 Posted July 12, 2022 Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 From CTs link onto YouTube you can see quite a number of cine films. From an Edwardian tram journey through to 8mm films of 60s, 70s right up to recent times. Seeing the miner off to work in his helmet etc., off to Clifton pit, reminded me of when I worked at Bestwood pit in 1958, before I were allocated a locker in the baths. B Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted July 12, 2022 Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 That film I linked was made in 1951, so it's a few years before I showed up, but it's fascinating to realise that's what the world looked like when I first appeared. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted July 12, 2022 Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 People were well dressed for one thing. I didn't see anyone suffering from morbid obesity and stuffed into leggings with their top half tattooed to within an inch of its life and falling out of a vest! 1951, Hardy Amies and The New Look . Infinitely preferable to 2022 and If You Want To Keep Your Breakfast Down, Don't Look! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,412 Posted July 12, 2022 Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 I recognise two of the speakers in the square, not from 1951 (I was six), but they stood and pontificated for a good few years and certainly up to the late 50s. In 1951 we were still rationed and needed coupons for certain food items. People were reportedly healthier due mainly, so they said, to restricted calorie intake and lack of personal transportation, i.e., everyone walked and cycled far more than they do today. Everyone dressed as well as they could, most had 'best', or 'going out' clothes because pride in appearance and a sense of being respectable, was about all they had. Ladies had hair 'do's' and blokes used Brylcreem and made sure they washed their necks before venturing out on soirée. Men had pints, bitter or Mild, occasionally mixed. Ladies a half, a small Sherry, a Barley Wine or something a little more exotic if they really wanted to push the boat out. Wine drinking was virtually unheard of unless you were in Yates necking a schooner of some disgusting Australian concoction. Or came from the upper reaches of the Trent Valley... or Woodthorpe.... I met my wife at the right-hand side lion (Oscar?), on a blind date. After a riot of a night in the Flying Horse, I walked her to the bus stop, where she promptly threw up when I went to kiss her! 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 I always dressed up to go into town, as did my friends. I don't think 'casual' clothes existed in the 60's really. You dressed up for work, going dancing, cinema and shopping. Some ladies might have their rollers in when local shopping, but always covered by a headscarf. We have seen in the past photos, folks on holiday still dressed in their 'home' clothes. I have a photo of me in Trafalgar Square on a Raleigh day trip all dressed up including stilettos to walk around London. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,123 Posted July 12, 2022 Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 We lived in Woodthorpe in the 50’s in a little semi where we kept chickens in the back garden and grew vegetables. We used to kill a chicken for our Christmas dinner. My father repaired watches to supplement his income (he had been an instrument tech. In the RAF). Both my parents were born down the Meadows. I do know what it’s like to be poor but I also came to know that by hard graft and single mindedness you can rise up the ladder. I was born with a silver spoon but it does say EPNS on the handle! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 Funny you should say that Phil, my mam always told me I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, and I took her literally! I really thought I did. I was born in a council house of working class folks, but I think what she meant was, I had it a lot better than they did growing up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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