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  1. I have many memories of Grantham station, but not of trips there from Nottingham, as my Dad used to take me there when we were still living in Lincolnshire. It was a magical place to a 9-year-old (in 1959). You'd go over the footbridge to the island platform, and there seemed to be an endless vista of lines stretching to the shed area where you could see engines moving to and fro. There was no turntable by that time, and a triangle had been laid out instead, so that engines would steam off into the distance and then return facing the other way. Back in 1959 I can remember seeing the N2 tan
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  2. I did that the other night I made myself Steak & Garlic prawns with every spice I had in the rack, Woke up in the middle of the night & only just made it to the porcelain before projecting fish goo into it,
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  3. Drinking in a nearby hostelry could be a risky business, if addressing the local heavy one asks..."Where do you come from,Twatt?" It's not easy to point out the comma and question mark in everyday conversation.
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  4. One of my earliest Clifton memories was an "earthquake" in the playground at Swansdowne Infant School about 1955? This might sound dramatic, but to a 5 year old this was the only explanantion! The ground shook and rumbled for what seemed ages and everyone in the playground stopped, frozen to the spot as if the teacher's whistle had blown. A few seconds later the spell was broken and the rumbling sound was replaced with the usual excited chatter that school children everywhere make. Never did find out what it was?? Other brief recollections of this school are safety glass on the dark wooden f
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  5. Bilbraborns mention of 'aged' Colwick etc.' locomen struck a chord with me as it was the reason I left the footplate after nearly 16 years. The date you started as a loco cleaner was your 'Seniority' date and stayed with you as you progressed, very slowly up the ladder. First as a 'passed cleaner'you were available for firing duties then as vacancies came above you, you moved on into a link of 12 drivers/firemen with 12 weeks of alternate am/pm's.Initially it would be mostly 'round the castle' servicing the local pits up the Leen Valley then going further afield, P,boro, wellingboro, B'ham, Cr
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  6. Getting back to DVD,s I have a double dvd on Nottingham between 1920--1980, made by The Media Archives for Central England. It has a running time of 165 minutes. very interesting. Disc 1 , the old market sq ,goose fair, heart of the city, celebration & royalty, war & commemoration, life on the water , a city of culture. Disc 2, Textile & lace, Raleigh, post war, reshaping the city, and champions & heroes. All made up by the University of Lincoln, also a 18 month calendar called Golden years of Nottingham, with some very interesting photo,s in it.
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  7. 'My Dream' released by The Platters in 1957.
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  8. I once worked with a Captain Bacon who later married and named his son Egan.
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  9. Smiffy, in the late 50's we used to enjoy getting a day return from Vic to Grantham and spend the day revelling in the A4 and A3 "racers" but always special to see the streaks coming through, with the tannoy warning everyone to "stand away from the platform edge" before they arrived, and perfecting just the right way of swivelling your head to get the name or number as they thundered through. Trent Junction was a regular "free" spot going there on bikes, and once "adventured" to Birmingham Snowhill - what a dump - but a walk across the City to New street, the nearest GWR spotting from Nottin
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  10. An ex Great Northern Railway 0-6-0, LNER class J6
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  11. basfordred, when we first moved out here in 1964, we lived in a 2 bedroom flat at 154 Ramsgate Avenue at North Bondi for 12 months(the top flat at the rear where the units back onto Brighton Boulevard). The connecting street ran alongside the block between Ramsgate and Brighton and was at least 45 degrees steep. Cars parked on the slope on three separate occasions whilst we lived there ran down the steep hill of their own accord after a while if their owners had only relied on their handbrakes to hold them.....5-10 minutes after parking, the weight of the car would overcome the holding cap
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  12. Sounds possible Ann , as there is a marriage , also in Southwell district for a Carole E Capewell to a George R.E, Wheeler in 1957 .
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  13. There was also a birth of a Carole E Capewell, mothers maiden name Hyett, born in Shardlow Registration District in 1938. Have found a marriage of a Capewell to a Hyett in Shardlow Registration Distrrict in 1935, but his name was Ernest H and wife was Florice
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  14. Can't help much here . The only possible match is : Barbara A Capewell born 1939 Anthony C Capewell born 1942 John Capewell born 1946 All the above share a Mothers maiden name of Hyett but can't see a Capewell / Hyett wedding . There was a marriage for a Barbara A Capewell to a David G Kemp in Southwell district in 1958. Could be connected ?
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  15. Australia: 3 - England: Zilch, Nil, Nought, Bugger all. The ODI is now home and hosed with our lot winning that series as well with still 2 more matches to play. I hear Captain Cook is going to get 'rested'. Bit of a shame really because he probably can play cricket as well as the next man if given the opportunity. Your lot may as well forget the 3 20/20 fixtures coming up, go home now and get their house in order (like we had to) before the World Cup and the next Ashes Tour over there. We will get some practice in with South Africa in the meantime before the Super Eights. Choking ye
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  16. Digby Court is now on its way down and out. It has an extra significance for me because my grandma lived in this block in the 1970s, so these could well be some of her rooms we are seeing.
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  17. Whilst holidaying in North Yorkshire several years ago, I encountered the villages of Booze and Crackpot, and in Scotland, there is a village called Twatt. Very amusing.
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  18. This Forum is infectious. Thanks for posting that wonderful clip from pathe, my older Brother was head choirboy on the day of the filming. Another pathe extended clip of the same event exists somewhere. My younger Brother and myself were "enlisted" into the choir a few years later. I do remember Stephen Verney & later Cristopher Aldridge. One of the attractions of choir membership was a nice fee received for attending baptisms, wedding & funerals. Looking back it was quite mercenary, we continued as "sopranos" after our voices had started to break (so as not to miss out) by miming
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  19. How about this one from Wollaston.
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  20. A short ride today after a spell in the Lincoln county hospital, (not the best of starts to the new year but things can only get better) got the trike (jolly Roger) out of the bike shed and thought why not have a blast round on it, nowhere special just along our cycle/foot path between the two villages of Carlton le Moorland and Bassingham, only about 4 miles in total, averaged 15 mph going outward but a miserable 8.5mph coming back, feeling tired for the last mile but achieved what I wanted and that was to get out and ride, bike performed spot on, one of the audible warning systems on the tri
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  21. There are members on here who may be able to help, especially DavidW and Annswabey, as well as those who live or lived in the area, so keep looking for responses.
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  22. The Elizabethan Rooms have some good memories for me also, carni. This is a post that I put on the thread where the photo came from. I'd also love to see some photos of the ballroom because it was where I first met my wife. It was a Nottingham City Transport Christmas party and my future wife went with a lady friend of her parents. The lady was supposed to go with her husband but he couldn't make it so rather than waste the tickets she took my wife. I wasn't too fussed about going but my brother Archie wanted to go. I'd been in an accident a week or so prior to the party and was still full of
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  23. Bump Another Pathe News clip from 1957 , showing the old and the new church in Clifton and the Rev. Verney. Plenty of shots of some of the locals that may be of interest to someone someday ? http://www.britishpathe.com/video/home-made-church/query/nottingham
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