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Jeff Leadley’s dad was the Dr. Leadley at Cropwell Bishop yes, one of the best doctors I ever had. We lived on Radcliffe Road in Cropwell Butler from the early 70’s. I actually hated it as had moved from Tollerton and had to get 2 buses to school in WB. Yes I would live there now but not mid teens.

 

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Although this has nothing to do with car dealers, as a follow on, I still keep in touch with the daughter of the Parnhams who had the post office in Cropwell Butler opposite the Plough pub. She was the same age as me and went to Notts Girls High. She now lives in Scotland.

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I had a classmate at High Pavement, (1960-65) whose Dad was a car dealer or garage owner.  Lad's name was Paul Harwood and I   think he lived somewhere Sherwood or Woodthorpe direction. That's all I remember.

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Paul Haywood became Paul Haywood Halfpenny, presumably on marriage. He was the owner of Sherwood Restorations, classic and sports car specialists in Southwell. He died about five years ago. I knew him through my interest in sports cars. He was born in 1946. Could this be the person?

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Paul was just Paul Halfpenny when he lived near me as a kid...ie No 1, Llanberis grove in the fifties.   Brother Rodger and Mum and Dad...Strict Mother .....couldn't come out to play on a Sunday... His Dad I think had a decorating business and was very interested in sports cars.

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16 hours ago, philmayfield said:

Might it have been Paul Haywood?

 

Nope. Definitely Paul Harwood, who would be my age now, so his Dad would be doing well to still be with us. Itwas Paul's dad who bought one of the original Capri's.

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19 hours ago, poohbear said:

Paul was just Paul Halfpenny when he lived near me as a kid...ie No 1, Llanberis grove in the fifties.   Brother Rodger and Mum and Dad...Strict Mother .....couldn't come out to play on a Sunday... His Dad I think had a decorating business and was very interested in sports cars.

Llanberis Grove in, and past, the fifties was considered as 'rather rather'. Do you remember Pat? Sheldon who lived opposite Llanberis Grove next to the garage. She was the daughter of Mrs Sheldon, secretary at Ellis School. For a brief period I lived with my parent at the terraced houses just below Llanberis until the mid sixties. 

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I must have car dealers on the brain as this one came to me in bed last night.

I used to work in Bulwell and there was a car dealer on the corner of Cinderhill Road and Leonard Street. This was about 1977/79. His name was Victor Wild. Very small place with only a few cars for sale at a time. I hung my nose over an old Volvo B20 saloon but bought a late model Morris minor with the 1100cc engine from him. I gave him a lift home once and he lived in a lovely house in Mapperley. He had a son who was an officer in the Navy I think.

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Around 1970 my sister ordered a new convertible from Trumans on Derby Road.

The previously unseen sales manager phoned and said her car was ready for collection, and presumably, as she was "Just a Woman", he would on collection explain all the controls to her.

My sister as well as being highly intelligent made members of the opposite sex trip over their tongues, clearly traits that run in the family LOL. "Condescending" said my sister, "Let him explain" said my mother.

On an evening of drizzle the grey templed suave sales manager drove along Derby Road and eyes on my sister rather than the road ran the car under the back of a lorry. 

" I do not know what to say" said he, "Say something about very big discounts" said she. 

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Many moons ago when we still lived in Northern Arizona, I went down to Phoenix for the day. Hubby said, call in this dealership and look at this car. See what you think. So I did, the car salesman showed me the car I was interested in. It had a narrow line painted along the side below the windows. The salesman pointed it out to me and said, I know how you ladies like the stripe down the side. Sale lost, the twit.

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I was very lucky to have two older brothers. One had his own garage and was probably one of the most honest mechanics I have known (to me anyway). The other would have sold anything to make a buck and was successful doing that for his entire life. Above all, they respected their ladies and especially their little sis. Our mum subscribed to the old way of keeping house and raising us kids but in her own way was quite independent. Dad went on two buses to work at Players for forty years.

Just look at history for the big picture and see how many women have made a difference in the world over the centuries.

Certainly the world that we know has changed for the better but there are still a lot of places where it hasn’t.

Mrs B

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On 12/22/2021 at 7:41 AM, MRS B said:

Jeff Leadley of Leadley cars unfortunately died after a car crash at Thruxton. I used to know him when he lived at Colton Bassett and attended West Bridgford College. Lovely guy.

 

Also, my cousin Howard Duke owned Fine Cars  near the Futurist cinema.

 

The death of Jeff Leadley was more recent than I thought; it only happened in 2010.

https://www.andoveradvertiser.co.uk/news/8792001.ferrari-driver-died-after-100mph-race-crash/

 

I remember the Fine Cars showroom. And it seems to still be a car dealer.   https://goo.gl/maps/Tk5W2gMUfRvcsWUAA

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On 12/17/2021 at 3:43 PM, Jill Sparrow said:

My father spent time in India during WW2. He was astounded to see that every conceivable form of transport from trains to bikes had so many Indians plastered to it as to render the actual vehicle invisible. It looked, he said, like a sea of constantly moving, noisy people.  He was far more impressed with Fremantle in Oz, where I might be living now if my mother hadn't vetoed the idea!

 Yes Jill, my mother pulled the same stunt with me. She hid the application correspondence which left me at home while my two friends, whom I jointly applied to go to Oz with, sailed away to start a new life there.

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Last week my car alarm was going off randomly.  The first time it happened was late evening when my husband was already in bed, recovering from his ‘stroke’ ordeal. As my car is parked on the drive, behind electric gates, I wasn’t too concerned but decided to put the car keys in a tin box, as that’s what I’d heard was the most secure place!  Next night it happened again, then again in daylight.  I decided to drive over to Audi to get the electrics checked out.  Oh no way was that possible ….. but I could book it in for September 12th, that was the earliest date they could do a diagnostics check on it! I asked the Service chap to just change the batteries in both my key fobs and eureka, that stopped the alarm going off and annoying the neighbours! 

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9 hours ago, LizzieM said:

.. but I could book it in for September 12th, that was the earliest date they could do a diagnostics check on it! 

 

And I'll bet it would've cost a ridiculous amount to carry out that check; minimum charge ! hour's labour, probably +£100.

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