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Favourite Pub Names
In terms of people from Nottingham who should have pubs named after themselves, then we think there should be one for Albert Ball (WW1 fighter pilot), Torvill and Dean (Olympic ice skaters), Emily Campbell (Olympic weightlifter) and John Player (tobacco manufacturer). Once we went to Grantham and there were two pubs near each other called ‘Stagger Inn’ and ‘Nobody Inn’. We thought they were both rather amusing.
Vintage and Antiques
We have a few curious ‘items’ at home we’re proud of. We have an original book of 78 RPM records by The Ink Spots, an American vocal group from the 1930s. We’ve got some old hot water bottles and bedpan from Boots - which we don’t use much anymore for obvious reasons. We’ve also got an old till from a butcher’s and the old clocking in and out machine from Redmayne and Todd sports shop, which was our first job back in 1978.
Hip-Hop
We don’t know anything about Hip-Hop. Is that the same thing as drum and beat? We watched Glastonbury on TV and saw Debbie Harry and Blondie. She did a rap back in the day, didn’t she? We also saw Candi Staton, but neither of them were anywhere near as good as when we saw her live back in the day. I don’t know why they let all these older people play at Glastonbury. It’s not really for them, is it?
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