Players Girls

[carlallday 0]

Hi, new to the forum and hoping someone can throw some light on the Players Girls.

All I know is my mother met my father whilst in Nottingham either in the land army or as a `Players Girl`

I would love to find a photo of her.

A long shot I know but its worth a try

Carl

[mick2me 3,033]

Hi Carl

Welcome

Are you local? or from Notts originaly?

Dont forget to subscribe to this topic

[radfordred 6,284]

Do you mean "Players Angels" ? Carl.

Have a read of this this http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/sense_of_place/documentaries/a_womans_place.shtml

Listen to the 30 min audio documentary @ the bottom of the above link its quite intresting , or this should work

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/realmedia/2002/01/women.ram

[RGR 218]

Hi, new to the forum and hoping someone can throw some light on the Players Girls.

All I know is my mother met my father whilst in Nottingham either in the land army or as a `Players Girl`

I would love to find a photo of her.

A long shot I know but its worth a try

Carl

My mother was in the Land Army and she was stationed at Thorny Hall near Newark.My Dad was based in Yorkshire with the RCAF group 6 Tail Gunner, for some reason they moved to Wigsley towards the end of the war a few miles from where Mother was in the Land Army.Incidently most of the girls were from Nottingham a pick up would pick her up in Arnold with the rest of the girls in the back,l do have photo's of all the girls at Thorny but trying to post anything on this site forget it.My parents married at the end of the war so Mum became a Canadian war bride.Of interest to anybody the American pilot of Dad's Lancaster who was also in the RCAF was named Randy my older brother was named after him,so if your Mother was stationed atThorny l may have a photo of her.

[radfordred 6,284]

Spotted me Aunt Ada, stick with it there is some good Nottingham footage & accents.

 

 

[plantfit 7,580]

Not much changed today,only they call the personnel department Human resources (HR) today,still don't give a sh!t about the workers, you know the ones that actually do the work

 

Rog

[benjamin1945 16,139]

My Daughter is doing something called a Dissertation' or something like that for a university degree in HR.......gave it me to read the other day.......saying 'what do you think Dad'?..............to me it was complete Gobbledegukes.......just didnt understand it at all,though i'm sure it was terrific for todays world and terminology.........just said 'that looks great duck'

              All this HR and Personnel stuff today i just don't get...........when i went for a job at Marsdens in 1960...aged 15..........i just said to the Manager 'Rons sent me' (he was my cousin who had just left them to join the RAF)......''OK go in the back and put a white coat and apron on''........we had a cup of tea and five minute chat,.........then behind the counter saying 'morning Madam how can i help you''..............spent the next 7 years with them......and they were wonderful times i'll never forget.............different world today aint it',     

[loppylugs 8,427]

Big outfits like Ericssons had a personnel dept when I left school.  I resent the term human resource.  I am not, nor ever was a piece of wood, or a can of oil.  They are resources.  Human beings are usually decent folks who need to be treated with respect.  I suppose it's just another form of PC.     Dehumanize  person and they can be treated inhumanely.

[benjamin1945 16,139]

I suppose the job i'm currently doing for a Security company (interviewing) comes under HR,.........I've interviewed people for many years and really enjoy it,.............i go with my gut feeling on people.....still get it wrong sometimes,but on the whole i usually put the right people forward for Vetting by the companies HR dept.............which involves references,work history,criminal background checks,Passport number and the right to work in the UK.

                  When i had my own company often took a flyer on some i thought deserved another chance..........and quite often they turned out to be the best people at work..........they appreciated me giving em that chance,and i could totally rely on them,......don't get me wrong i had to get on their case a few times.....i still see these mostly blokes in Bulwell.......and am always greeted with fondness ,and a few cheeky quips about the past.

                        Most have let their SIA Badges lapse, or i would still find work for them,............i still have my Security Licences and they have come in handy for the many roles i cover..............my Certificate for window dressing,i don't talk about.............lol.

[FLY2 10,108]

After leaving Plessey in March 68, I returned in January 69, and walked into the last department that I had worked, and saw one of the managers, and enquired as to what jobs were available. His answer was 'What do you want to do ?'. I told him 'inspection ' as that was slightly better pay than production, and started the following Monday morning. 

Thats all that was needed..... No Personnel Department or HR involvement needed, just a chat...... Brilliant!

[Cliff Ton 10,457]

The really interesting bit is at around 19 minutes where the two girls wander around the Market Square during an afternoon. There must be somebody looking at it now who can see someone they know in that sequence.

[Commo 1,292]

Thanks for that R/R, seems like the dark ages now even though most of us were of the same generation as that personnel "officer".If  I was as pretentious as that I'd come out with "plus ca change, plus c`est la meme chose" ! She'd really gorra bob on ersen ent she?

[mercurydancer 1,104]

I do remember Players Girls but in a totally different context. Dressed to the nines in a white and blue uniform selling cigarettes at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground, predictably during the John Player Sunday matches. 

[Cliff Ton 10,457]

...presumably this kind of thing.

[radfordred 6,284]

Promotion girls, don't think they sold fags, they gave them away, me oldest sister was one, used to turn up at Silverstone & snooker when they where allowed to sponsor theses events.  

[mercurydancer 1,104]

Thats them Cliff Ton. I have fond memories of Trent Bridge at the time. 

 

I seem to recall Garry Sobers married a Players Girl. 

[catfan 14,793]

The bus loads of Players girls who used to catch my bus from the Radford Blvd factory stunk to high heaven of tobacco, even as a smoker I hated that smell .

[benjamin1945 16,139]

 

 

 

Engaged to a girl who worked there for a time......Katrina from Carlton,...her 2 main attractions for me were, she was beautiful and had access to cheap Fags.........oh yes the third was i liked the smell......still do................lol.

[katyjay 5,090]

i used to walk past the factory on Radford Blvd morning and night to go to work at Raleigh. Never forgot that smell of warm tobacco, the only way I can describe it. It was not a bad smell at all. 

[catfan 14,793]

On a packed bus full of women who have just done a shift at Players I don't think you would like the odour !

[benjamin1945 16,139]

To late now young Michael............but i'd have given it a go...........bet one or two would have 'rung my bell'............but i bow to your experience...........lol.

[catfan 14,793]

Not the usual fag smell Ben but the raw tobacco odour.

[Cliff Ton 10,457]

I remember the smell of tobacco in the air at Radford when we visited my grandparents. At the time I didn't know - or bother - what it was, but I was definitely aware of "that smell" which hit you when you got off the bus.

 

My grandad worked at Player's Radford all his life, and - like the Cadbury's workers who can't stand chocolate - he was a non-smoker all his life. So there wasn't a cigarette smell in their house, even though it was 2 minute walk from the factory. 

 

Whereas our house at Clifton had a permanent cigarette smell courtesy of my dad. I just took if for granted, and didn't really think about it until years later.

[Jill Sparrow 10,304]

1 hour ago, catfan said:

On a packed bus full of women who have just done a shift at Players I don't think you would like the odour !

I doubt whether that would have put our Ben off in his heyday....oh sorry...he's still in his heyday, isn't he? 

[Jill Sparrow 10,304]

14 hours ago, Cliff Ton said:

I remember the smell of tobacco in the air at Radford when we visited my grandparents.

You and me both, CT. Every Thursday afternoon, on the way to Garden Street, I ran up and down the steps in front of Players and gazed up at the clock. That smell was so pungent, you could almost cut it with a knife!