mammasue 33 Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 That's just reminded me...... Dolly Mixtures !!!!! cinder toffee, traffic light lollipops kalie(not sure if spelt correctly2oz kalie to dip yer lollipop in ...yum ooh and sherbert dips Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mammasue 33 Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 That horrible juddereing when reversing the car. that was probably your driving lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Andrews Liver Salts - lovely stuff. I actually liked the taste and remember mixing some even when I didn't need it!! It was all bubbly and refreshing................ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 i remember them they were round with hole in middle like polos but fruit flavoured , loved them You're thinking of fruit polos not spangles...spangles had a dimple...not a hole. Both a manufacturing con to save a percentage of ingredients...Just imagine the hundreds of tons of toffee they saved with all those holes and dimples in a year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Graham 63 Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 1What about blue Smarties? 2Never knew why Opal Fruits became Starburst ? 3 Why did Olay become Ulay ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Graham 63 Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 And Fruit Polos were always stuck together ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Please folks, less of the quoting!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tony1 118 Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Dare I ask without getting chided? I stopped doing this after reading this remark a couple of weeks ago. I just don't know why. Why is quoting a problem? It seems the only sensible way to directly respond to a comment. Otherwise the thread is lost. Surely that's what it is there for! What happens to the site to cause a problem? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 It fills the data base up, Mick has requested everyone to reduce quoting, just use # and the number of the post you are answering. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 I agree with your post, Ayupmeducks (#2641) and can't understand why some Nottstalgians find it so difficult. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Not so much the vessels but the local firms 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Would that be J.Jones soft drinks of Nuthall Rd fame ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 I also thought it could have been Jones the soft drink company but I didn't know where they were based. Wasn't there a soft drink company on Traffic Street? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 That one was Redgate's. J Jones now at Rawson Street Basford. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Yes Redgate's, I remember it now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tony1 118 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 #2462 I don't think anyone finds it difficult, Michael Booth. It just makes logical and comon sense to use a feature that is provided. If it really does cause so much trouble, then it makes sense to just remove the feature. It is currenlty the only way that a member can quickly see that he has had a response to a post, because he is notified. If quoting is not used and just the #xxxx, there is no notification process, so a member has to browse through all of the posts to go find if anyone responded, even when he felt no need to return to that particular forum. In fact I only found the answers to my question here, by pure chance I have discovered responses that I did not know had been made, much later... and may not have ever found at all, from people just using the #xxxx Using the #xxxx means the member also has to know the number of his own post in that forum. I am not sure I understand how 'one line of text' takes up more space than 'one line of text', in a database. It does not seem to make any difference in my product, but then my programmer may work very differently and with different tools. I would have thought there are a lot more space taking things in these forums, than quoting. Somehow I think my customers would not understand being requested not to use a useful feature in our software. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Had occasion to be in Old Basford yesterday, and wondered if anyone can recall the little island where Church Street joined Western Boulevard near St Leo's church? Am not that sure I saw it myself! maybe I saw a picture of it sometime? just wondered when it was altered to traffic lights and no right turn allowed, similarly anyone know (doubt anyone alive who recalls it) when the alignment of Basford Crossings (then called Lincoln Street Crossings) was made altering the angle of the road to make David Lane the "main road" as opposed to Lincoln St with change of crossing name Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,109 Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 I always knew it as Lincoln St. We played rugby at Mill St playing fields just off Bagnall Rd up until I left FFGS in 62. Any pictures I've seen in steam days always refer to it as Lincoln St Crossing. The whole area is a bottleneck and a total disaster for drivers. You can sit there twenty minutes at times waiting for the trains and the bloody trams. It should have been flattened and a flyover installed, but I think the old cinema is listed. If so, it's a joke !!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted April 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Ashley, in the Basford forum, the thread Old Roads Leadings into Old Basford, post #22 has a picture of the island, so you didn't imagine it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,479 Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Re: Lincoln Street crossing. I've posted this before somewhere, but it sort of shows how the earlier alignment might have been. The photographer is on Vernon Road; the lorry going away is going down Lincoln Street and the car poking its nose in is coming from David Lane. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveN 1,118 Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 As there aren't many milk deliveries to homes these days you don't see birds trying to peck the foil top of a milk bottle to get a drink of milk. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,177 Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 #2652 cliff ton pic. I DON'T think the alignment has changed at all,........i also went across a few times on a 'Granville bike' ..........great picture. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Enigma. 1,533 Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 the roundabout where vernon road meets radford road and western boulevard and valley road basford 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tony1 118 Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 Tea cosies ! Boys burning the back of their hand, setting fire to paper (or extermnating ants) with a magnifying glass ! Standard Ensigns Germolene in yellow and blue tins. Salvolatile Liquorice powder Liqufruta Liquid paraffin Mad magazine The Topper Toby Twirl MY FEET (At least I cannot see them without a mirror) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 Traffic police with big white gloves. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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