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Because it's a sad day for the site, when a well respected member of staff is ridiculed and then hounded out solely because he has the guts to stand up to a few argumentative and childish individuals who are intent on boring the majority of members senseless, thereby they give up posting, and then they can have the site to themselves. This is now currently happening !

Not much wrong with this Forum in my opinion - I read the Topics I'm interested in then hit the "Mark Site Read" button !!

Well said Fly. We have the situation where the site has become virtually monopolised and the regular members have become brassed off with it. It would seem that this problem is not being addressed by whoever is running the show.

YES !

A bus photo. Market sq.

An old bendy.

Heard on Radio Nottingham this morning, that three violent burglars were arrested in the early hours of this morning, after breaking into the Sam Hall at Sherwood. One police car was rammed, and another damaged by a thug with a sledgehammer. He was tazered. Perhaps they only wanted to secure their seats for the next meet up !

Cricket fans will know the name, but on which city centre building is this blue plaque ...

I can't really see why this thread is here. If someone wants to leave a position of authority on a forum it is of little concern to the rank and file membership, only to the boss. No need for big announcements in a new thread. This is made even more relevant by the statement:

Cognito ! Where's that, South America ?

Went on a treasure hunt with grandkids and family on Sunday, and it was nice seeing them learn a bit about their city. I must admit I too learnt a bit, despite being Nottingham born and bred! I was playing with my old camera, so decided to take it along. Thought you might like to join the game .... where's this then. I'm sure these will be dead easy for you experts! We started here...

Or big wheels !

That bus route number 29 city hospital used to run out of bilborough depot, duty no.B295. It was a long part day shift being the only one with built in overtime. It ran from the city up to city hospital and waited there for a hour before bringing back the visitors. Shift used to start about 07.30(ish) and finished about 20.45, but I could be mistaken. Didn't bother going home after first bit, just hung around the depot playing snooker etc. B. PS. Don't recognise the crew though.

Anyone remember a single decker trolley bus being trialed I think it would be in the fifties it ran on the nottingham road route basford I think I was still at school I remember it had very long poles meeowed

Thanks @AfferGorritt Never been able to post pics until I followed your instructions. I presume you're using a Mac? Your advice wouldn't quite work for Windows users. Anyone interested in my test pic? It's the last ever people to drink in the White Lion, Ilkeston, I'm in the middle. Long story cut short, but it had closed down a couple of years before for the new bypass, we broke in & had a bit of a party (taken about 1 in the morning).

Not wise at all, had to look it up mesen. Just thought I was helping out.

My Phantom 3 pro

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My lad is in to that, I'll tell im !

What's the point in putting lol ?? No-one can see if your laughing or not. It would be easier to answer with something like, " laugh, I nearly wet myself !!" That way readers will know you enjoyed something. But maybe I'm being a bit naïve. B.

This one's a bit obscure. A row of houses with some really ornate carvings above the doors. It's particulary relevant that she's playing a stringed instrument as one of these buildings was occupied, some years ago, by an "establishment" well into stringed instruments! Sorry for flooding the site with photos!

Two war memorials within 10 minutes walk of each other ...

Not been here for years, and this time visited places I'd not seen before ...

Originally Woodborough Rd Baptist chapel, designed by Watson Fothergill.

Time for more 'Minutiae'. Sadly, I don't have pictures. And I may have related this before but I can't recall.. it's an age thing... As we looked out from our house on Southglade and over towards Rigley's we saw a hollow meadow , leading to a steep bank. That bank led up to a flat area created by Rigleys Wagon Works, as a storage area for assorted rail rolling stock which they serviced, repaired or scrapped. It was essentially a large private set of rail sidings. I think I've already described how one tree, growing from the base of the Leen Valley Line and the 'Rigley's Bank',

Right, and straight, that's me Col, but I certainly don't profess to be a star.

Nobody said the job was in Cognito. Too far for me to travel I'm afraid .

Gaggy's on Alfreton Road..great spot for bits & bobs..our kid was always covered in grease on a new project..great craic of a Saturday afto.

Ah the old ''Brass Rivets'' ey Rog,, getting the ''Counter sunk holes'' lined up proper.............eeeeh they were days,,,, lol

Deepdene's discription & causes is spot on. There was an old fitter at Bulwell whose sole purpose in life was to relign brake shoes the old fashioned way, drilling out the old rivets & rivetting new brake linings on the shoes. The size of those brake shoes were the biggest I had ever seen.! There wasn't much Eric didn't know about brakes !

Anybody out there who is interested, I have a Dji Phantom 3 pro and a Mavic Air.

Lizzie lots of people on the Gedling FB mentioned a loud bang last night but no explanation. There was no bang this side of town!

Nice Rog

Went there for a mate's 60th last year. Food was absolutely divine.

I remember giant Euclids carving out the ground years ago when on a bike ride to Strelley, late '50s the M1 motorway being built nearby.

LOL was around years before FB was ever thought of, probably came from cell phone texting abbreviations. I recall LOL was being used on the Friends Reunited site some 16 years back, the place where this site sprang from. One of our late early members was the one who invited me here, she sadly passed on a few years ago, and is still missed.

Sorry CF but I'm no wiser. Don't know what FB means or to 'inbox' me. Told you I was a bit dim. I've noticed in my short time on here that a number of contributors use initials, but to me it's almost shorthand. B.

There's a name from the past Rog

I use it too much probably..........................i don't use it to say i'm laughing.........i use it mostly to say ''Only Joking''

Alders it was !

He was able to prove the shoot to kill policy in NI

They certainly were the days, and when the day ended and you went home you wouldn't complain of the cuts and bruises, as you would have to explain where you had been and been up to , then you would receive more bruises.

Cheers Ian..Cascade! That's it...would never have got that!..now I"m trying to recall the one on St James's St..only two that have stuck in memory are Playland & Space City. I Think the St James's St arcade became a all night pool hall..blue blaise tables..rubbish cues..a free cup of tea at 5am was very welcome though..

10AM will be great Gem,,,you'll recognise me,, i'll have me new teeth flashing about................

That, I think, is a Unipower Hannibal. More about them here; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Power_Drives

TBH, I don't see anything offensive?? The black garb they wear appears to look like a black Royal Mail box, if it's offensive, then surely the black garb they wear is offensive??? Personally I find that kind of clothing extremely offensive to ALL free thinking women. Some input by our female members might clarify that issue. The posts weren't removed for being offensive anyway, they went off an above normal tangent away from the original topic. Even you complained about that...Am I missing something??

I did not see the posts that were deemed to be offenisive so can not comment but could those comments not just be removed and leave the ones posted before. We all had differing opinions which is good as the outcome to this will affect us all, we come across things that we disagree with all the time and can at times have lively discussions but that's life.

Nottm City Council have made mention about implementing car parking charges in Bulwell for quite a time, I would'nt be surprised at all.

In the early 70's I worked at an amusement arcade/bingo hall, owned by George Akins' group. It was near Central Market and bus station. I earned the princely sum of £20 a week, and at Christmas I was given a £5 bonus by Mr George as I was the only member of staff who ever knocked on the office door and waited to be invited in, even though it was usually open and it was all glass panels anyway. Ben - I love being called Duck, round here in Stoke it's Sugar.

Playland !!