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Hello everyone. I am new and am researching for a novel I am writing. it is set in the Meadows in the 1960s and I would be grateful for any anecdotes anyone can recall. I am particularly interested in Mundella memories and the lives of teenagers during that period.

Hope to hear from you

H

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I spent many a happy hour chatting to the working girls in the all night cafes on Arkwright Street.The sight of two burly vice squad officers legging it down the road hotly pursued by a Totties alsatian was a sight to see.

Or the guy screaming at one girl..."You gave me crabs last night!" And her equally loud answer..."What do you want for two quid....Lobsters?"

Or is it not that sort of a novel??? !cheers!

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Hello

I'm sure you will get lots of info from folks here, but why Mundella?

Mundella was a Grammers School. I would think very few pupils

actually lived in the Meadow?

The Scecondary school for Local Kids was Trent Bridge Senior Which I attended.

I lived in and frequented the Meadows in the 60's and 70's and went to Trent

Bridge Juhior and Senior Schools.

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I spent many a happy hour chatting to the working girls in the all night cafes on Arkwright Street...

And how is your above post less offensive than other recent postings that you farcically accuse of racism?

Cheers

Robt P.

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that's exactly the sort of thing I need to know! More please....

My dad had a shop on Kirkwhite Street east (Heasons) and I went to school out of the area (I was sent to the High School). The book I am writing is about the isolation of a child sent 'out' to school and being a misfit in the posh school and being seen as a snob at home.

Because I was sent away to school I missed so much of what went on in the 60s and need any anecdotes anyway can let me have.

PS lobsters for £2... that'll do me :)

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that's exactly the sort of thing I need to know! More please....

My dad had a shop on Kirkwhite Street east (Heasons) and I went to school out of the area (I was sent to the High School). The book I am writing is about the isolation of a child sent 'out' to school and being a misfit in the posh school and being seen as a snob at home.

Because I was sent away to school I missed so much of what went on in the 60s and need any anecdotes anyway can let me have.

PS lobsters for £2... that'll do me :)

Hiya Hilly,

I was about to say, what 'angle' are you aiming at for the novel ? It'l help for people to offer the right anecdotes,,,,,

snow good people throwing too serious bits in if its a comedic piece,,,, & vicci vercky,,,,

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Richard is my brother! You know him? I have a sister, Penny, too.

The book is a straight novel (think Catherine Cookson), but needs some fun in it, too. I would like to know about the experience of growing up in the Meadows, of meeting friends and dating, where teenagers slocialised, the sounds on the streets. The seamy side of drunks and poverty as well as the humour. The pride of the housewives and efforts to get everything clean after the floods.

When did the outdoor lavvies stop being used? Did people use portland baths for washing and bathing as well as swimming?

Were there still cobbles?

Did Shipstone's horse still come around?

Am I imagining th elephants under the railway arch?

How much was the rent on a house? What did a working man earn?

What about the first arrivals from the west Indies? How did people react? Was there prejudice?

I remember the Hong Kong and those awful pink corsets, but what else did Arkwright Street offer?

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Richard is my brother! You know him? I have a sister, Penny, too.

I have known him for almost 30 years, he is a close friend and former work colleague.

Know of your sister, but have never met her.

Might I suggest that there is much Meadows material for you in our 'The Medders' forum, into which your thread has now been placed. These contributions go back to Oct 2005, and cover a comprehensive view of the area, made primarily by members who were born and bred there. IIRC, the majority of their recollections were from the 60's/70's era. To read all the postings, simply bring up the forums list within the group, click on 'The Medders', and all the 41 different topics will be tabulated.

Cheers

Robt P.

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There is a Meadows site linked from Bosworth Street School. Just google bosworth street school.

Outside bogs only went when the area was cleared by demolition orders.

Work? Like most people, all over the city, local work was Dobsons, Gun Factory, Railways, plenty of companies down Meadow Lane and Daleside Road, Clifton Colliery, Wilford North Power Station, Hosene Works on Briar Street, tons of factories in and around the Meadows.

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All of the Coop-s activities were centered on Meadow Lane area

Bakery Dairy Transports ad Removals service, Soft Drinks (mineralwaters) Cobblers factory, Coal Yars, Pork Factory, Garage, Greengrocery, fiberglass shop (milk floats), even cars sales at one stage. And of course until recently, The Coop Laundry on Daleside Road. In those days Coop vans were RED.

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I have actually written a book about growing up in St Ann's during and post the 2nd world war. Its called Yo'd Mek a Parson Swear! We moved to St Ann's via a moonlight flit and trust me you would not have liked to have us moving in next door to you! By the morning, our neighbours would learn why our dad labelled us 'the brass band' and we were to bring new life to Moffat street, most of it rolled up in the bedding on the back of the cart!!!!!

Have just finshed a sequel called Yo'd Mek a Paron Swear....Again! and this one deals with life in 'posh Broxa', that's what mam called it! Its due out shortly.

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