loppylugs 8,429 Posted March 4, 2016 Report Share Posted March 4, 2016 Sorry to be off topic but shouldn't you wear a tie to a coffee bar Ben? If so I see that from your new photo that you forgot it. LoL. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,160 Posted March 4, 2016 Report Share Posted March 4, 2016 getting in holiday mode Loppy............... Trying me new Bathers on................ 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted March 4, 2016 Report Share Posted March 4, 2016 Thank gawd they aren't Speedos. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,160 Posted March 4, 2016 Report Share Posted March 4, 2016 I think you know me better than that by now Katy..............lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OLDACE 196 Posted March 4, 2016 Report Share Posted March 4, 2016 Re Sutch, he was quite a character, as well as hanging out with the Mods in the Square, he was a regular with the Rockers at the White Hart in the mid '60's. He had a spell with the Hippies, spending a summer (1966?) sleeping in the sandhills at Skeggy. Later he was lead singer with 'Mothers Ruin', a rock band with White Hart connections. Does anyone know what became of him? I would imagine he would be successful in whatever he chose to do. Another character was Dave Staples, a member of the Aces motor cycle club and a regular at the Toreador in the early 60's. He was a fine dancer, winning competitions at the Locarno I think it was. He was on TV in the final of a nationwide jiving contest. Anyone know what became of him? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Val 11 Posted March 5, 2016 Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 Loved the L coffee bar,it gave us somewhere to go, couldn't go in the pubs as dad was a licencee and I would have been in big trouble if caught drinking underage 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OrphanAnnie 296 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 I was chatting with my son the other day and he asked if the Palace Coffeehouse is still going? It was just off Parliament Street, when Safeways was there. It was taken over by Wilkos but not sure what it is now. Anyway I used to take him in the Palace of a Saturday morning, and because the staff could never understand the concept of a 'threat' of milk I would buy a black tea and a glass of milk for my son. Then I would take half a teaspoon out of the milk for my tea, and take the milk back to the counter and ask for some milk shake syrup adding. We also used to frequent the Gingham Kitchen, it was the first café I remember to have those sachets of artificial sweetener on the tables! Did it become Maxine's or was that further along Parliament Street? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 Gingham Cafe gets a lot of mentions in this thread. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6638& Quote Link to post Share on other sites
siddha 825 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 Loved the L coffee bar,it gave us somewhere to go, couldn't go in the pubs as dad was a licencee and I would have been in big trouble if caught drinking underage It was one of the places to be ............ I spent so many happy hours there during the day into the night and through the early morning. I lived and loved locally ............... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,509 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 Are you taking about L Shaped Room or was this another place? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Val 11 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 Yes LizzieM it is the L shaped room on Goldsmith street Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,509 Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 I probably knew you Val and Siddha as I spent many Sunday afternoons in the L Shaped Room 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
siddha 825 Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 I guess we might have known one another then ............ There were different groups/cliques that gathered. I do remember a Val she was a nurse and came in with a clutch of nurses that all lived up in Mapperley Park somewhere. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 'L' Shape...Mapperley Park...nurses...parties... Hearing of a party,yours truly and a mate loaded our minis with fellow nutters from the 'L' and high tailed it up Mapperley...he went one route and I went another...We met at the junction of Magdala And Lucknow Ave....unfortunately from different directions and neither of us stopped in time. I bent the front end of mine and he bent his... Mother was not amused...it was her mini. Put a bit of a dampener on the party that did. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
siddha 825 Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 I dont remember the mini but do vividly recall the Standard Vanguard , that wouldnt have bent........... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 13, 2016 Report Share Posted October 13, 2016 Small chinks of memories often come 'through' about being a City kid in the 60's . Tess's cafe on Derby Road was my haunt... mainly because I practically lived in Dr. Haworth's waiting room on the Ropewalk. Those plastic oranges bobbing about in the juice machine...signs urging you to Drinka Pinta of milk...or those Horlicks mugs with no hole in the handle. The Granary on Hurts Yard was a real treat..as I recall the Arty Fartys sat in there. The ladies serving in The Peppermill..I thought were all gorgeous!.. and a coffee and cheese scone in whitewashed brick surroundings with Tom Rush in the background.. was about as far from the ABC minors as i could get! Two places in Trinity Sq weren't bad..i found a quid once...and handed it in ( true!!)...no one claimed it- treated me Ma to double egg & chips. The Empire was a little grubby but I think i even people - watched then! Didn't like Cappouchis., the woman had cold black eyes..probably behind English barbed wire for the duration. Central Market..amongst the shouting and smells of fish and flowers was a small cafe..the urn hissed and steamed and the white crockery could be heard clanking as far back as the huge weighing scale near Joyce's. A mug of tea and a Yo Yo biscuit.. then into the fish market...whilst my Mother chewed on whelks..I begged for a new Commander Comic...as i said small chinks! Â Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted October 13, 2016 Report Share Posted October 13, 2016 Kind of envy you, growing up in the city, it was a rare occasion I ever went there as a kid. Mam hated it, so it was off the 22 bus at Hanley St, into the back of the big Co-op and buy what was needed and back on the bus. But, I did have a next door neighbour for a few years, who loved the town. She had a daughter same age as me and would take us both down town at night, to just window shop. I loved it, never bought anything or went in a cafe as far as I remember, but I was happy to just look in the brightly lit shop windows. Ah, the simple life. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 14, 2016 Report Share Posted October 14, 2016 You've got a bleddy good memory for when you were a seven year old Ian. I can't remember what I did last week. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 14, 2016 Report Share Posted October 14, 2016 Forget nowt fly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 14, 2016 Report Share Posted October 14, 2016 I remember when I had a Saturday job at Halfords on South Parade, I used a Cappouchis nearby and always for lunch had a pineapple cream tart and a mug of Horlicks. I could never get used to no hole in the handle. It was a bit dicey if it was very hot, or your fingers were wet ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted October 14, 2016 Report Share Posted October 14, 2016 10 hours ago, iandawson said: The Granary on Hurts Yard was a real treat..as I recall the Arty Fartys sat in there. Â Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted October 14, 2016 Report Share Posted October 14, 2016 Loved that place .....toasted teacakes Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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