katyjay 4,997 Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 I had many, but will kick off with getting a new colouring book, or drawing book, and a new box of wax crayons. The latter all had pointed ends before they were rubbed flat with crayoning. Oh the joy of not knowing where to start in the book, so spoiled for choice was I. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Going to the shop for the new comic - Beano or Film Fun! Brilliant! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,728 Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Doing things we weren't supposed to, like climbing up the brick yard at Mapperley, or scumping up the allotments at Hungerhill Gardens. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 4,997 Posted March 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Getting a new book for birthday or Christmas, usually a 'classic' and the anticipation of reading it. Also the annuals at Christmas, loved 'em. They'd last me till the next year's came out, re-reading them over and over. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,278 Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Used to love the annual free gift from SHOOT football magazine "Shoot League Ladders" This consisted of a thin card sheet on which were printed blank league tables for each division of The Football League, with a slit in the card alongside each position on the tables. Also given away were T-shaped "tabs" for each club in the league (printed in the appropriate team colours) which could be fitted into the slits to indicate where each team currently stood in the league table. As the season progressed and teams moved up and down the table, their tabs could be moved to new slits accordingly. Spent hours updating it all season , anyone else that sad or just me? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 304 Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Typical , the only team I can clearly see on that is Notts County in 20th place in the old first division . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,278 Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Dead right they finished 15th. Watford 2nd !! Luton !! Taylor & Pleat or Pleat & Taylor. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 Getting a new book for birthday or Christmas, usually a 'classic' and the anticipation of reading it. Also the annuals at Christmas, loved 'em. They'd last me till the next year's came out, re-reading them over and over. Oh yes, I had one of the half crown classics from Woollies every year until I ended up with a shelf full. Treasure Island, Little Women, What Katy Did, Heidi. Great! And the Annuals! The comics writ large. And I remeber the first time I was taken to the Library. Was it down Kirkwhite Street somewhere? I couldn`t believe that they`d let me borrow any of their lovely books. Heaven. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,825 Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 Eileen, the Library is still there its on Wilford Crescent. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 I loved those Shoot football tables too. Amongst other things I used to collect Typhoo International Football Stars which you needed to cut out from the back of the packet. It was a slow laborious matter collecting them and a matter of some concern if the packet of tea for that week featured a player that you already had in your collection! http://cards.littleoak.com.au/196768_typhoo_international_football_stars/196768_typhoo.htm 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 304 Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 O.K. another one to bring a tear to my eye , and a lump to my throat!! I suppose my simple pleasure would be the once in a blue moon that my dad wasn't up the allotment on a Saturday and took me fishing!! A walk down to Netherfield and Colwick station, on the train to Radcliffe on Trent then the long, long walk down Shelford Lane to a track that took us down to the river near the weir. A days fishing and wild life watching (Plus the occasional bonus of finding some "Blue Buttons" in the woods on the way home. These would be cooked up and had for our tea with some toast , laverly !!!! As a 4/5 year old it was a long hike but worth it!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 Eileen, the Library is still there its on Wilford Crescent. Oh wow! I`m so pleased it wasn`t demolished like so many other childhood places of mine. Thanks for telling me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 4,997 Posted March 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 Catching butterflies in a fishing net, catching tadpoles and sticklebacks and bringing them home in a jam jar, making daisy chains before the mower on the field got them, and on frosty mornings, making a loop out of a privet twig, and catching as many spider webs as you could in the hedges. The frost [or sometimes dew] showed up the webs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,278 Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 Used to love a puff on me Mams fags. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,206 Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Making it through the day without getting hit with a cane, shoe, coal shovel or any other object my mother could get her hands on Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 4,400 Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Spending Happy (?) hours at Children's hospital having 7 stitches put in me tongue, without anesthetic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 5,509 Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Being taken up the Midland station in 1947 and seeing the floodwaters at the end of Arkwright St. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,008 Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Being desperate to open a new box of breakfast cereal to get at the free gift inside, before the contents had been eaten. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 605 Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 Me to radfordred the good old Craven A. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David sheridan 158 Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 Buying a copy of the beano or dandy and a packet of Cadbury's white chocolate buttons , I loved the antics of the bash street kids , Dennis the menace, and desperate Dan ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 2,922 Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 1 hour ago, David sheridan said: Buying a copy of the beano or dandy Yes! delivered them all on my paper round in the 60s. Buster, Hotspur, Eagle, Rover, all the SuperHero comics, Victor, Beezer, Valiant, Topper, and some for the girls. Valentine, Judy, Bunty are names that come to mind. When I met someone on the street, I knew their faces from collecting the paper money on a Saturday and what papers and comics they had but never knew their names. My all-time favourite was Mad Magazine. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,423 Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 My mum setting me up with a little ‘kitchen’ in the garden .. I used to mix soil and water to make little cakes which I put on a cake rack to dry in the sun. I decorated them with tiny stones and flower heads 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MRS B 325 Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 I think my earliest memory would be going to stay at my godmothers / aunt at Totley near Sheffield. Think I was pretty homesick when it was time to go to bed so she put me some china animals on the shelf to keep me safe and watch over me and left the little light on for me, bless her. She later moved to Mumby and Sutton on Sea in Lincs and I spent a lot of time with her there too. Didn’t much like her hubby though, very odd and as I grew older he was a bit of a letch and my cousin agreed with me about that too. Godmother passed away a couple of months before him and they are both buried in Sutton Church graveyard, he on top of her. We all reckoned that she had a few months of peace. Lots of other very happy memories though too many to list here. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gem 1,421 Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 Hi again...i only seem to pop up when I want something. My friend and myself are visiting Nottingham when weather improves and would like advice on museums to visit, saw one on TV that had victorian undertakers and hearses. Being odd that's the type of places we are looking to visit I'm looking forward to re-visiting the castle any ideas would be appreciated. Gem. Is the workhouse still open to visit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letsavagoo 838 Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 You will be disappointed as regards the castle. It is closed for the foreseeable future as the company running it went bust. As for the workhouse it appears to be currently closed and reopening towards the end of February, the 19th I think. Look on their web page for details. I don’t know where the museum with hearses is. There is the industrial museum on Wollaton park but that is only sometimes open at weekends as far as I know. The framework knitters museum at Ruddington is worth visiting I’m told although I’ve never been. There is the Civil War museum at Newark. I have been there and I t was expensive and I didn’t rate it much. I heard it had been improved. It needed to be. A stroll around the lace market and St Mary’s is worth the effort. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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