Ron Manager Remembers Nottingham and Stuff
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Ah, Nottingham. Marvellous, isn't it? That nostalgia thing you vowed you'd never do. Some tweets are better than others.
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There's no such thing as a perfect shot of Nottingham's simultaneously grimy and beautiful industrial heritage. Oh wait...
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Never, in the history of publishing, has so much human misery been created by one book.
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This was your version, wasn't it?
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I feel sorry for today's kids who will never experience the unadulterated joy of poring over the Radio Times' Christmas double issue.
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You can hear it, right?
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Brush your hand lightly across this and remember being eight again.
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From when the Quality Street tin was the size of a municipal gas holder.
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The height of my ambition as a young 'un was to own the Action Man deep sea diver outfit.
Still is.
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Table lamp in the shape of a Spitfire? Half timbered coffee machine? Jigsaws depicting the aftermath of the Black Death? A 1/72 replica of Hampton Court? A carved air fryer? Suit of armour for your toddler? A Queen Mother emblazoned dog coat? Oh, I'm nostalgic for Past Times.
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People sometimes don't believe me when I say that telly was better in them olden days.
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A tough day.
But it's still a beautiful city full of beautiful people. ❤
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The NHS crisis began when mothers stopped using Germolene and carted kids off to A & E instead.
"Leg severed in a trolley cart disaster, dear? Never mind, a smear of this'll sort it out."
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My entire childhood was shaped by images of the war which, although I didn't realise it at the time, was a mere blink of the eye in the near past.
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Do The Pools still exist? Is there still a man with a big leather satchel who collects your money? Do people still sit by the telly (ideally Rediffusion) on a Saturday and tot up their score draws? Or has all that disappeared like tears in the rain?
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Admit it - you didn't buy all of your records from Selectadisc, did you?
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Time to dust off this beauty.
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From when all goalies had flat caps, roll neck sweaters and trench foot.
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By the end of Christmas Day 1976, I had labelled every inanimate object in the house, including a snoozing granddad.
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Might I suggest that the super absorbant 30 inch bell bottoms from the 70s might be our way out our current flooding crises?
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Kids today will never experience the joy of sleeping on nylon sheets in nylon pyjamas. Produced enough hair-raising static to power Retford
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Medium Wave was the magical conveyor of a young boy's imagination.
Where was Hilversum, anyway?
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Tell me you've received a Christmas present better than this and I'll call you a liar.
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A Friday beer at the Trip under a clear spring sky? 😙👌
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We quite like our sport, don't we?
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The opioid of the 70s, an entire generation was laid waste by the seductive charm of Space Dust.
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Jack Hargreaves taught me everything I know about saddles, fly tying, catching moles, tickling trout and buffing up deerstalkers. All really valuable skills for a lad growing up in the Medders.
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Treating Marjorie again today. Could be a prawn cocktail with all the trimmings if she plays her cards right.
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And The Victor was, of course, the home of Alf Tupper, the 'Tough of the Track'. After his shift as a welder this working class athlete would stoke himself up on fish and chips and win every race he entered, usually against the posh kids.
My entire childhood was shaped by images of the war which, although I didn't realise it at the time, was a mere blink of the eye in the near past.
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I'm in here, and I'm very, very drunk.
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I'm fed up of having sand kicked in my face on Skegness beach. This year, it's going to be different...
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Mankind's depravity in finding new ways to torture fellow human beings never fails to amaze me.
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The Rupert annual was a staple, I seem to remember.
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How beautiful is this on Meadow Lane?
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It's just bricks, windows and a telephone box in the Lace Market. And yet ...
Pic: Paul Turner on Flickr
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When I told Marje I'd show her a good time, I wasn't joking.
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The end of a year is always a time for deep reflection and this year is no exception.
So, when exactly did Spontaneous Human Combustion stop being a thing? When I were a lad, it seemed as if every other person on the street was going up.
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Your reminder that Emily Campbell is a Nottingham lass, or more precisely Buwuw (that's Bull-well for Clare Balding). 🏋♀️
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Rishi went without Sky? That's nowt - I went without real coffee for fifteen years.
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"Don't worry, mam - we'll be back by Christmas."
Sherwood Foresters, 1914.
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It's been a while since we paid homage to Frank Robinson, aka Xylophone Man who, on a daily basis, produced all of the notes of Edvard Grieg's second piano concerto, but not necessarily in the right order.
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"You can have one. But it's your big present, okay?"
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The Bell Inn.
That is all.
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Farewell then, Victoria Market. Your world of cheap fabric, watch batteries, discount cuts of meat, exotic spices and plates of peas is no more.
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The Duke of Newcastle's tunnel which runs between Derby Road and The Park might not be the best tunnel in the city, but it's in the top one.
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It's hard to predict which deaths will move you, but this saddens me a lot. I was at the City Ground when Clough first unleashed Trevor Francis from the bench and he performed a burst of raw speed so startling that it sucked the breath from the spectators.
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Give enough monkey typists enough time and they will produce the complete works of Shakespeare they say. And so it proved with Xylophone Man who, after decades of cacophonous pain, produced a pitch perfect rendition of Saint Saens' Carnival of the Animals one wet Tuesday in 1982
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We all have role models. This was mine.
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I'm off to the 1970s Woolworth's with me mam to get some of those Winfield plastic trainers that me mates will bully me about.
Anybody want anything while I'm there?
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Might spend the afternoon in the garden of the oldest pub in the known universe where, for no extra charge, you can have your pint served with a delicate sprinkling of 250 million year old Triassic sandstone.
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Nottingham tapas.
Gerrit dahn yer, muchachos.
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This should keep me distracted for most of today.
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Here's Nottingham Victoria to get your week off to a good start.
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The Savoy Hotel on Mansfield Road. The only thing that could make this image more 1970s is Richard Beckinsale arriving on a space hopper.
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Redmayne and Todd's, Nottingham's cathedral of sporting goods.
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Ready for Sunday night, chums?
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A different Market Square.
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Ah. Like eight portly sentries protecting the southern gate to the city, they offer a welcoming nod of recognition to those who are returning to the homeland.
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There are many rites of passage in the world, but perhaps the most terrifying was the first leap from the Beechdale high board. Shivering lines of falsetto boys hurled themselves into the abyss, emerging with underarm hair and the look of men returned from a tour of duty in Nam.
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For a magical two years in the 80s, the glorious juxtaposition of these two establishments meant that all that is good in the universe was to be found on Market Street.
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Thunderbird 2 was the best of the Thunderbirds.
There will be no further discussion.
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Might possibly be the greatest photograph of the twentieth century. (Click on picture for its full glory)
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Whether he was the perpetually frisky Geoffrey in The Lovers, lefty firebrand Alan in Rising Damp, or Porridge's Lennie Godber with his one O Level in Geography, the doe-eyed Beeston lad Richard Beckinsale never failed to generate a smile. Sadly, you naffed off too soon.
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A fitting legacy, I think we can all agree.
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What a couple of years it's been. Thanks for everything, Steve Cooper.
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Here's my new favourite image of the kiosk in the Maid Marian Way underpass.
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This is how I like to think of Nottingham: as a sun-lit hill town in 16th century Umbria where all the buildings are masterpieces of Renaissance architecture and the Meadows is a wooded Arcadia.
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If you need me, I'll be in here for most of the day.
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A rare colourised photo of Mapperley Hill c.1911.
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Next time you're in town, take a moment to admire the splendour of the Arkwright building. I mean, just look at it.
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Ah. The design classic of the cheese and onion cob: a paving slab of cheddar and enough onion to keep your tabs flapping for a week. Marvellous! 😋
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"No. I give you my word. The Nottingham public will love both of you equally."
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Satdy morning in tahn?
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Recent archaeological digs beneath Broad Marsh have unearthed this intricate mosaic, thought to be Roman in origin.
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Tell kids today that you could wander from one record shop to another with a cob stop-off in between, they'd not believe that such an age of wonder really existed.
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A poignant moment as Brian Clough presents Jimmy Sirrel with his cycling proficiency certificate, achieved after decades of two-wheeled mishaps.
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Pretty sure that if I opened it, it would contain me geography folder, a huuge physics textbook, a dog-eared copy of Romeo and Juliet, a bus pass (in plastic wallet), an orange butty box with meat paste sandwiches, a can of Cresta and an aborted attempt at a love letter to Marje.
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When Nottingham ruled the world's cycle lanes.
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Sod it. Gonna wrap up some haslet cobs and head for the coast.
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Today is the fiftieth birthday of the greatest film ever made.
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Makes you proud, really, that we have so many guests at the top table.
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Amazing view of the Northern Lights above the Royal Concert Hall last night.
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Tell kids today that you could wander from one record shop to another with a cob stop-off in between, they'd not believe that such an age of wonder really existed.
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For a city of devout sporting fanaticism, Redmayne and Todd was its cathedral.
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44. Maid Marian Way Underpass
Brutalist architecture, wasn't it, mm? And like a deranged whack-a-mole, the best part of an afternoon could be spent popping in and out of the tunnels in your search for the castle. The newspaper kiosk also served as the East German consulate.
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It's true that there was less flooding in the past, but that's because excess surface water was mopped up by kindly 1970s teenagers.
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The Penthouse bar at the Royal Hotel was about as swanky as it got in Nottingham in the 80s. Surprised they let me in, to be honest.
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One of the great natural wonders of the world, Owd Faithful is a 100 foot geyser that erupts on those Saturdays when both Forest and Notts have won.
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Phwoooooooooooooooooar! 😍
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Nottinghamshire is like an island of civilisation in a sea of barbarity.
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In Aspley, 'International' means Nuthall.
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You want diversity? I'll give you diversity in the shape of the Hearty Goodfellow during the 1970s and 80s. Here, rockers, skinheads, Uranians, Sapphics, underaged drinkers and jittery outpatients from the General Hospital all rubbed shoulders in their pursuit of crusty ham cobs.
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The Art Deco of the Nottingham Ice Stadium was a thing of Beauty.
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The Trip, from bleddy yonks ago.
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124. Selectadisc
The boy who bought his top 30 singles in Woolies wandered into here and beheld a musical universe made new: rows of album covers like jewels which brought a richness beyond measure. Where have you gone?
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It has only recently come to my attention that the word 'beer-off' or off-licence is a specifically Nottingham dialect word. And now I feel sorry for the rest of the world who have never had the joy of uttering it.
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