Brew 5,408 Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 Millers were dusty... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 I used to know a Maurice Cooper, but everybody called him 'Snowy'. Didn't have blonde hair either. B. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 Think the last few posts should be in the ''Nicknames'' thread...we got one ? Used to feel sorry for some kids at school....with 'Nicknames ' like... Ginger nut... Fatty.... Goggles... Had one lad in my year with no 'Toes'' and believe it or not was a great footballer.......funny thing was his Boots and Shoes all curled up where his toes should have been...and he had the Nickname ''Curly''............ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,599 Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 I wonder why he didn’t get a smaller sized boot? Or perhaps he wouldn’t have had the same stability with a smaller size? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,457 Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 9 minutes ago, benjamin1945 said: Think the last few posts should be in the ''Nicknames'' thread...we got one ? Sorted. Going back to the very early days. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 A friend of ours down in Bucks has always been called ‘Smelly’. No connection to his surname but he was a fishmonger, and now a very well-regarded butcher. He’s a Nottingham lad, went to Henry Mellish, then Brackenhurst before moving to Buckinghamshire to go into farming initially. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letsavagoo 961 Posted July 6, 2022 Report Share Posted July 6, 2022 When I was about 8 I started getting called bisley spiders legs at school. I think there was a character on a TV comedy show with this name and my skinny legs earned me the title. Quite soon though it got shortened to bisley then plain Biz. The name stuck and people I’ve known from my younger days including most of my wife’s family still call me Biz. By coincidence in later life I was nicknamed ‘spider’ at work due to my climbing ability. Plenty of ex work colleagues don’t know my proper name. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David sheridan 159 Posted July 6, 2022 Report Share Posted July 6, 2022 The bullies were the ones to give you a cruel nickname werent they , a geeky lad with glasses at school got called joe 90, and they'd often poke fun at my surname sheridan , they would call me shekribat for some reason , Another bully was aptly named in Timothy large , a big fat bellied kid would always track me down for a spot of bullying ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,427 Posted July 6, 2022 Report Share Posted July 6, 2022 The name of the show was, 'The Army game.' One character had bad feet. His name was Bisley, ( real name Alfie Bass) and was known in the show as. 'Excused boots Bisley'. Late 50s early 60s shown on Itv 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,681 Posted July 6, 2022 Report Share Posted July 6, 2022 Many had nicknames at school but the one that I always remember was "Yane" . He was a big lad and enjoyed his sweets . If you asked ...."give us a tuffy" his reply was "Y'ane havin' one" ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted July 6, 2022 Report Share Posted July 6, 2022 Oddly enough, my nickname from a 14 year old at school until I was about 19 was 'Chas'. It started as Chatsworth then shortened to Chas. When I started going in the White Horse, Ilkeston road, even the landlord called me Charles, as he thought that were my name. B. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,895 Posted July 9, 2022 Report Share Posted July 9, 2022 My sons friends used to call him Squid. Surname Cannistraro ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted November 15, 2022 Report Share Posted November 15, 2022 We had a lad @ school who had one hand bigger than the other we called him “The Clock” Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted November 15, 2022 Report Share Posted November 15, 2022 A lad @ school was missing an eye we called him Keth 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,871 Posted November 15, 2022 Report Share Posted November 15, 2022 I used to belong to a boxing club, one lad there was called Picasso because he was usually on the canvas. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,279 Posted November 15, 2022 Report Share Posted November 15, 2022 As a young boy I wore very thick glasses. An older, bigger boy started to bully me and called me Tokio Joe after a Japanese general during the war. Anyway, after nearly killing him with a cricket stump the abuse stopped. Never had any more bullying from others after that. I was then nicknamed Apple because my name in Nottingham slang was Coggin. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted November 15, 2022 Report Share Posted November 15, 2022 A lad in my class Antony he was only 5 feet tall & to this day he's still known as "Shetland Tony" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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