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Things you don’t see anymore (times 2) A 1945 photo of my aunt, wearing a turban and scrubbing her front door step on Queens Grove, Meadows. She dug her heels in and refused to move when the

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Yes i remember Drive' soap powder Ian,.........also recall weighing Tea and putting it into 'blue bags'....it was at Marsdens ya know ....got me thinking,can you still buy 'Lux flakes and 'Dreft ?

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Today is the last flight of AVRO Vulcan XH 558 final flight

I used to spend many (many) hours on the flat roof of my Dad's office with an old tank site for a telescope watching the Vulcans and the flying bedsted etc. especially during the Hucknall air display when I lived in Papplewick. In later years I met the inventor of the flying bedsted and consequent RB211 troubleshooter while down in Wimborne at Flight Refuelling. I first noticed his cars registration which was VTO 1. First off it's a Nottingham registration but it was awarded to him for obvious reasons after the end of the flying bedsted project.

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You don`t get carol singers any more - or I haven`t had any at the door anyway. The last one was a few years ago. A little girl about 7 or 8 knocked on the door. When I opened it she said, 'I`m carol singing.' and just stood there.

I said something like, 'Go on then, sing us a carol.'

She looked nervous and just repeated, 'I`m carol singing.'

I saw that there was a group of older children knocking on doors along the street but there was no singing.

I didn`t know what to do so I just gave her a few coins and she ran off down the drive.

Weird.

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She might just be Carol Singing.

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Ian where did you know Wavy Line shops ?.......i don't remember any in Notts,i used to canvas them for the VG group but mainly in East Anglia.

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Thought it must be that way,they were very strong over there,my job was to persuade the owners to dump em and join VG,Really enjoyed my time in East Anglia,.

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