Guest Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Remember the wine bar in Hucknall was called.....the wine bar!! The woman who worked in our materials shop at Mansfield College of Art dated the guitarist in Heatwave. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
susyshoes 69 Posted April 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Still called 'the wine bar!' Still awful!!! They've finally started building the inner bypass making it impossible to drive around hucknall without getting stuck at some roadworks somewhere. They've knocked down the old Lakes chemist at bottom of annesley rd and it's going through titchfield street, Albert street, Woollaton street and coming out on station road. Mayhem!! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 My old mate Tim Parker dressed like Elvis back then,Half Moon,Wine Bar,Bedstead or Blue Boar...nobody batted an eyelid. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Just scrolling back to some comments, i must say I found Hucknall and Mansfield ladies very pretty. The Nottm thing kinda overshadowed this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Hucknall was the best place in the world to live in the 50/60's - we had everything, Swimming baths, Cinema, Park, Rec where the fair came twice a year and endless dancing haunts, youth clubs, market every Friday, great schools, doctors, police station, fire station, clinic, chapels, library and all the shops and pubs one would need, there were lots of work there too. pits, shops, factories, offices........I was very happy growing up there.........everybody knew everybody and most folk were helpful and friendly as I remember............I also remember the newsagent's on Annesley road, a small sweet shop where you could book your mystery trips and holiday excursions.......My neighbour used to drive the buses for them, he was called Cyril Chambers.............. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sallyshoes 18 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 ... Hucknall and Mansfield ladies very pretty .. Actually recent DNA research has proved that this is true. It is due an aberration of the local gene pool that has been traced back to the 12th century. Having said that, a few drinks evens everything up. Apologies for the picture - I am not advocating an unhealthy lifestyle! Ooh.. that is reminding me of A-level Biology and German ... the name phonetically Nan-ker-ville. I was once informed that this woman was fluent in the German language. I replied that this was not really a surprise since she was born in Frankfurt. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sallyshoes 18 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 I have heard there is no wine in this place anyway! I guess it will be the Hutt again tonight for me and my Beau. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Blondie, your post (#80) 'I also remember the newsagent's on Annesley road, a small sweet shop where you could book your mystery trips and holiday excursions.......My neighbour used to drive the buses for them, he was called Cyril Chambers........' reminded me of a post I put on last year regarding the newsagents on Annesley Road, Hucknall: I've been looking on Google Map for a newsagent that was on the right hand side of Annesley Road, going towards Hucknall High Street but It doesn't seem to be there anymore. A few years ago, I kept a scrapbook of the Rolls Royce Celtic FC as my eldest son played for them and the Hucknall Despatch did a great write up with photos etc. Because I spent so much time abroad I couldn't always get to the newsagent to collect it. We made an arrangement where they would save them for me and I'd collect them when I could. Sometimes I'd go and there'd be a pile but they never let me down. After years of winning trophies, Rolls Royce Celtic FC disbanded. A few weeks after this I called into the newsagents to collect my final copies of the Hucknall Despatch. Every time I'd been to the newsagents the same lady was always there. She was a lovely, friendly lady and always wanted to know which country I'd been to. Before I paid for the papers I told her It was my wife's birthday and I wanted to buy her a special box of chocolates. I asked her advice as to what she'd choose if they were for her birthday. She told me her favourite chocolates and wrapped them up for me. As I was about to leave I gave her the box of chocolates as a 'thank you' gift and to tell her that I wouldn't be having the Hucknall Despatch anymore. She had tears in her eyes as she thanked me and at that moment two men walked in. They saw me at the counter with the lady in tears and thought I was doing a robbery..lol. When I see Hucknall in the news I often think of the lady in the newsagents on Annesley Road. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notty ash 371 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 ... A Ooh.. that is reminding me of A-level Biology and German ... the name phonetically Nan-ker-ville. I was once informed that this woman was fluent in the German language. I replied that this was not really a surprise since she was born in Frankfurt. If it's the one at Annie Holgate Tech Grammar, I remember the hilarity when her arrival was announced in assembly one morning. Mrs Lollie's name had the same effect. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
susyshoes 69 Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Was the newsagents Dunkleys ? It was next to or near the stork club so on same side as carlingford Road Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Mrs Lolley, Dr Nankerville and Herr Hambukers , we did have some odd named teachers, oh and Mr Knott Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,160 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Some good looking girls worked in Farrands on the High st when i was there in the early 60s,..........next door to Johns Mens outfitters, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
susyshoes 69 Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Farrands not a shop I remember , although I remember johns army stores. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,160 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Farrands was a small store grocery and provisions store susy...........window was the bacon display,.......small shop but about 20 staff, 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 susyshoes (#85), the newsagent that I mentioned doesn't seem to be there anymore. It was on the right hand side, going towards the town centre. I've looked on Google Maps and I seem to think it was near Brook Street, possibly the shop that's now the Chinese takeaway. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
susyshoes 69 Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 ah ok, Annesley Rd had changed so much now. it used to be a busy little shopping area in the 60s and 70s but its a bit of a mess now 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Was Mr Knott a young blond German teacher called Fred ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 The two shoe ladies have brought back many memories for me over the past few days..I did disco's in HMW in the 80's and Sutton squash club..Ta!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
susyshoes 69 Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 yes HippoGirl it was Fred Knott. we thought he was iffeminate but he was a married man (i think) gosh he had the micky taken out of him - some kids were so cruel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 I taught with his wife ...........small world 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
susyshoes 69 Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 certainly is - at least it was true that he was married!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 They tied the "knot"....sorry!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sallyshoes 18 Posted April 18, 2016 Report Share Posted April 18, 2016 I didn't live in Hucknall, but I vividly remember learning to swim at the Swimming pool. Chlorine - an interesting substance! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sallyshoes 18 Posted April 18, 2016 Report Share Posted April 18, 2016 Nabbs Lane - now correct me if I am wrong - but wasn't that road about three miles long in the seventies? I caught the school bus from Nuthall to Nabbs Lane (F4 if I remember correctly). Great planning by Notts County Council - bus kids for four miles then make them walk three miles. I could never understand why we were not allowed to stay on the bus - Sandy Lane, Common Lane, Hillcrest Drive - ending right behind the school. Nabbs Lane was reduced in length by NCC just after I left school - it is now only about a half-mile long. I remember someone who dressed like Gary Numan - I think at the Blue Boar. This must have been around 1981 - are friends electric or just drunk? The Blue Boar seemed to be really popular - but only for a short period. The Green Dragon (I must be on a 'colour' theme) - went there in the eighties. I always smiled when I parked the car in front of the police station - sparkling water all night of course! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 18, 2016 Report Share Posted April 18, 2016 Red Lion Sally..went on a date to The Byron one night( double bill!!- Moonraker & Sweeney.) We gave up went to the Half Moon and then in a drunken state rang me Dad from a coin box..near Wakefields? Often ventured to tut' Staff of Life or Kingsway. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,082 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 We moved to Hucknall in the 70s I had the hairdressing salon on Robin Hood Drive. We moved out of the flat which was above the shop and brought a house on Long Hill Rise. The house still had a pantry and under some news paper on one of the shelves was a Coronation Program and it had pictures of most of the shops on the High St that you speak of. I hung on to the program for a long time not knowing what to do with it. In the end as it was part history of Hucknall so I gave it to the Library for it to be used and for people to look at, So if any of you want to see the Coronation 1953 program ask at the Library. I think Hucknall takes some beating as the best place to live and bring up your children, wish I still lived there. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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