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  1. Good luck to the England ladies team tonight, if they beat Japan they will be in the World Cup final.
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  2. This is a beautiful photo of a Kingfisher in a flower.
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  3. Thank you everyone that has welcomed me. Sorry for not replying sooner. My eldest son was dragged by 2 horses he was trying to lead from a field back to the Stables where he works & didn't want the horses to be hurt/killed when they were spooked by a car going too fast. He has learning difficulties & his passion is horses. He held on as he didn't want them to get killed on the road & he was knocked out. He does not remember anything until he was in the hospital Serious Trauma Unit. Injuries: Broken Jaw, deep cut to his Face, One tooth knocked Out, one cracked Tooth & all the
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  4. PS: I am just a very ordinary Mum, doing what a Mother should do, but your comments are really appreciated. I will keep you informed of his progress. Thank you once again & I cannot believe that people we have never met are being so kind to us - that is true generous spirit indeed. Love to you all, your friends & family are so lucky to have you. Echo x
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  5. There's a few posts regarding England's Women footballers on the 'Advice On Girls' thread. Here's my post from there. I've watched all the England games and will be watching the Women's Word Cup semi-final against the holders, Japan. It's on BBC1 tonight at 2310. If England win tonight, and they'll have to be at their best to do so, they'll play the USA in the final. I'm looking forward to watching England v USA in the final.
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  6. I've worn my pedometer for 9 days now. The first day was only a oartial one with 4654 steps, but the 9 days total 104,825 steps. I'm pleased with that. The best day was 16,191.
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  7. There is a new on-line magazine about East Midlands history, including Notts. The first edition covers the Civil War. I only found it by accident. Looks very promising. See here http://eastmidlandshistory.org.uk/magazine/
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  8. That photo of York immediately made me think "Nottingham could have had something like this in the shape of Drury Hill".
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  9. So sorry to hear about this Echo. My love for horses means that I always slow down and give them space. Unfortunately there are many who don't. If and when your son gets somewhere better to work, this employer needs exposing. I am pretty sure that bullying in the workplace is illegal.
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  10. The Only Way Is Essex. It's about brain dead posers in Essex. Fake tans, fake boobs, over whitened teeth. Shallow, superfluous, superficial pap. You've missed nowt gel !!!!!
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  11. I walk some mornings, but most of my steps are just doing everyday stuff. My house is on 4 levels, so lots of stairs. The day I had my bonfire, I did 16,191 steps.
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  12. Katyjay, average of 11,647 steps a day is great,do you go out to increase your step count or are they just the norm? carni take care in this warm weather on your cycle or walking Darkazana,perhaps we should appoint distance badges for individual step counts,could add another dimension to the challenge Well done all and keeeep stepping (only if its safe to do so) Rog
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  13. A different view of the market in Britain from Above in the late 1930s, where you also see the Palais in the right centre.
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  14. Hi Echo, so sorry to hear about your son, having owned horses myself, and my youngest daughter was a yard manager for a local equestrian centre in Newark, I understand completely his passion and hope that he recovers soon and is back where he wants to be. I don't know of any jobs in your area but when my daughter was looking for jobs we used to look on the following web site www.yardandgroom.co.uk/jobs/united-kingdom/nottinghamshire Try googling "horse groom jobs notts" for other sites. Unfortunately work with horses is never particularly well paid but you can certainly find a more caring e
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  15. Central Market - old meets new
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  16. We live in wonderous times, looking at all these pics of people in Central Market, most of them knocking on a bit, i wonder how they would have reacted if you told them a person will be looking at you 40 odd years in the future and see you what you are doing now, on a computer using an internet site called Nottstalgia. i suppose it would be much like telling a victorian person about streaming TV and Music. they would think you were ready for the funny farm, but, what in 40years in the future will people be using far more advanced technology than we us now, looking at us, doing what we do, bli
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  17. REgarding the previous posts about The Chequered Flag,
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  18. I worked as a cleaner at colwick loco and then to passed cleaner from 1957 then left and came back as oil and greaser at colwick loco, still have my rule book somewhere. happy memories of steam. and the carbide lamps. the huts with the great big black kettle always on the boil. happy days.
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  19. OK, I get it. So a Towie facelift, is a scraped back ponytail?
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  20. I remember the pet stall Margie I remember looking at them when waiting for the 39 bus. always felt a bit sorry for em stuck in their cages.etc.
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  21. Cleaner, passed cleaner, fireman. April 1948-Sept. 1963, so only the last 6 years count? PS. Smiffy49 if you make your research into a book do justice to your photo's, not too small!
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  22. I used to love going to the greengrocers with me Mam the grocer with his brown dustcoat & pencil stuck behind his ear, in the days when you where not allowed to handle the produce, giving the cheery chap the opportunity to slip damaged,bruised & sometimes squashed fruit into your bag & use his thumb in the scales so he could over charge my poor old Mum. How times have changed, I now use my thumb to push the scales back up @ the self sevice till!
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  23. I loved the pet stall,I remember you could buy a kind of dry shampoo for cats,it made my cat smell like French perfume.
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  24. 1968 Moby Dick at Morecambe, destroyed by fire in 1972
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  25. Well, darkazana and plantfit, you have both been very busy in your offices again but you managed to get your steps in! darkazana making 6,315. plus your fitbit Serengeti badge for 500miles, the length of the Serangeti. Congratulations. I'm impressed. Well done plantfit you made 8,724, that is brilliant. A well deserved sausage roll and yum yum. I hope you enjoyed them. I must add, me and my Yam Yam love Yum Yums! We buy ours from Greggs. We can eat two each, usually in the car park. no problem! We managed a Canalside ride this morning before it got too hot, just enough to give my steps a bo
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  26. I'd like to share a drink with my younger self and tell me to appreciate myself more. And say stop worrying, it all turns out okay!
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  27. Thank you, it means so much to know that there are really kind & caring people out there to take the time & trouble to say such lovely things & be thinking of him. Fingers crossed he gets a job soon, then he can get away from the tyrant of an employer he has that puts him through hell. If as many people that can do would be so kind as to pass on his information, then that would be great. Echo x
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  28. Hello MargieH #389:- I got in touch with Susan Fowler direct via Amazon when I learned via U3A that she had had her first book published. This was about a school in the east end of London which was evacuated to Cornwall during the war. Most of the kids were Jewish. Lots of them stayed in Cornwall - they were well received by the locals, and some intermarried. The U3A said that Susan lived in Penzance - I asked her this, and she said she planned to, but was still living in the Arnold area. I seem to recall she did play netball, but I'm not the best person to ask - I have the sport gene missing.
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  29. In the 50s and 60s, the railway was one of the biggest employers in most towns. Each station (large or small) had porters, shunters, signalmen, station master mostly for three shifts along with RD reliefs and GP reliefs. Not to mention Drivers, Firemen, cleaners, buffet staff and track men. Then there were fitters and engineers.
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  30. Mand3liz, #72, about 1963/4 i was with a bunch of Hippies, used to sit around the market square, be about 9/10 of us, we used to go to the Palais at lunch times, remember hearing Hermans Hermits & The Supremes, i think one of us was named Fred, and me Terry, difficult to remember the others.
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  31. WH Smith, Scales and vending machines all in one 1956 shot:
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  32. Missed out my Brother - he did longer than any of us - Nottm Mid, Furlong House, Toton, Coalville, Grantham. various London depts
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  33. Here goes - I worked on the Railway on four separate occasions - yes, four! 1) 1960 -Started in the Publicity and Public Relations dept. on Victoria Street Nottm. Then Alan House on Clumber Street; Furlong House, the Meadows; British Transport Advertising on Low Pavement. 2) 1988 - Platform Ticket Barriers at Coventry. 3) 1990 - Yeah, first proper Railway job at last - Traincrew at Norwich a) Trainman on Ballasts and freight followed by Senior Conductor on intercity hauled trains to London Liverpool St. 4) - 2000 - Customer Services at Norwich. Family connections. Gr
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  34. I started as a carriage cleaner at Nottingham Carriage Sidings in 1978. I applied for a vacancy as a Senior Railman Carriage shunter at the same location in 1980. I got the job and spent the next five years shunting the same trains I used to clean. Every week-day morning we dispatched two trains to Glasgow and five to London, mostly mark 1 stock hauled by class 45s. The London trains gradually acquired mark 2E and Mark 2F air conditioned stock. This as well as the summer holiday trains. As the sidings became run down during the early 80s, coal mines closed and all our freight diagrams were tr
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  35. #2 Jobs I did whole working for B.R. Signal Box Lad(Colwick North & Rectory Junction) Switchboad operator(Colwick Yard) Store man(Colwick Yard) Signal lampman(Nottingham Midland) Secondman(Nottingham,Hornsey,Kings + & Ripple Lane.)
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  36. Barman 1963 to 65 BRSA Bulwell, (does that count?)
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  37. I should have said finished in 2010, not 2005. The five years since then have gone quick - but not that quick!
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  38. People who worked on the railway would look upon it as just a job that they did. I would imagine that they'd also get an inner excitement from their involvment with the steam trains. There are quite a few of the Nottstalgians who either worked on the railway or were just steam train enthusiasts and there are many posts and threads on this subject. My only involvement with the steam trains, when I was a kid, was stood on the Meadow Lane bridge, near Daleside Road, with my trainspotting book in my hand. I can still feel the excitement and smell as my friends and I would get covered in steam as t
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  39. My Mrs is Russian and speaks perfectly good English, but does have problems with dialect. I have problems with Russian dialect. For some years, whenever there was something to do, which needed doing, but she was unwilling to do, and I had a tad of frustration, I would often say "I'll goomesen" For years she thought I was swearing at her. She actually used that term, pronounced perfectly, and challengingly but totally out of context, in a pub in London. She thought she was saying something like "Stuff you" (or worse) , but after some discussion ( and some hilarity on my part) that I explained
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  40. That's how I remember the cafes too. No matter what I went to the market for,[for me mam] I always went outside to look at the pet stall.
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  41. I had forgotten about babies pods!! When we lived abroad I had to change so many words so that people knew what I was talking about, and what is really sad is my children wouldn't even know these now. We had bootees, not pods (they were for peas), rolls not cobs, ice lollies not suckers and probably loads more that I have forgotten. A lost culture
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  42. I know that feeling well. Debbie Harry is 67 in a few weeks time !! She helped many a youth of my age group through puberty ......
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