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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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There's a chippy in Glasgow called "The Oxford Chippy" that does fritters.  You can get a big fritter on a cob for 90p.

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Blue Peter used to do a bottle top collection each year for "Guide dogs for the blind".

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5 minutes ago, Compo said:

You can get a big fritter on a cob for 90p.

Turn it in Compo,I'm supposed to be on some sort of diet,oh sod it I might do a couple for me dinner with a nice runny egg to dip me cob in,diet will start again tomorrow     maybe

 

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Memories: Comments very welcome.......

Cinema seats

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Buttons A and B

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1964 Honda motorcycle

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Steel Bucket and spade

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Pop Gun

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MkI Mini with pull-chord doors, sliding windows and start button on floor.

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Hillman Imp - gone and almost completely forgotten :)

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Fellow Nottstalgia member LizzieM has sent me these two pictures taken some where on Mapperley Hall Drive with the question some one on here may be able to answer.

What are they ?

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My first thought was perhaps a fire hydrant ?

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I think they are disused fire hydrants of a type where the 'doinz', outlet/hose fitting, screws onto the top. However, a disused water pump is also a possibility.  I recall seeing these all over the place when I was a young'n.

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At last compo someone talking my language 'doinz'..........along with 'whatsits' oojars and 'gubbins'..........lol.

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Gotta watch it though.  If yer get yer oojars mixed up with yer gubbins yer gonna have some right doin's followed up by a kaniption.  Not to mention a knockin in yer ball joints.

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How about this as a prime candidate for the red standing thingamyjig?  It may be one of these but with the top gubbins removed.

 

https://www.lassco.co.uk/a-victorian-style-cast-iron-standpipe-40269

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Loppy and Compo........this is so understandable.......think i could take a Degree in it........at the University of 'Whatsername'......lol.

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Thanks Brew, that the exact one too.  We've lived here for 12 years and I've walked past it so many times and always wondered what it was, mystery solved! 

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I noticed one exactly the same on Hucknall Rd this afternoon. Same shape, and same colour. It was almost opposite the Tesco Express in the old Atrium building. 

Being in a similar area to MP, and also pretty hilly, then I suppose there's many still in the surrounding area.

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A remarkable family resemblance ! LOL Thanks Cliff, I'll look out for more in the surrounding vicinity in future.

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