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This one was selected for the official 2019 Caithness calendar. I took it in June last year whilst on a trip into the moors at Wag. The mountain is Morven and it is framed by the ruins of the Wag farmstead:

The NEP have done one of their features with old photos - this time of Carlton. Some of them are a bit fuzzy and rough, but.... https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/gallery/30-pictures-looking-back-life-2694281

My two sons catching Haddock in the Pentland Firth last summer:

Height =126ft and over 1000ft long, Plantfit. Some feat of engineering ! Been over the aqueduct scores of times. Incidentally, the only way we've been into Wales. Never been by road. One day will get a boat with an engine ! The harness is starting to dig in the wife's shoulders.

Back in the times when I could afford a Beard.. (Taken before Digital) Llangollen canal, approach to Pontcysyllte Aqueduct).

Don't know why this came to me, but occasionally I get odd flashbacks to schooldays. Bristow "Have you scalded yourself Jackson?" Jacko "No sir, I've bunt missen on the watter. "

It used to jump off the shelves!

Kangaroos feed hungry humans here in OZ It is a very lean meat but must not be overcooked. It is also used for pet food.

He's probably hunting for wild Haggis Ma'am,trying to tempt them with a small morsal Rog

Looking back through the thread I noticed reference to the Queen not having a number plate. It brought to mind the time I had been up the mountain "Ben Avon" near Blamoral. It was late in the afternoon and the Queen had been attending the Braemar Highland Games along with her entourage. I was getting changed out of my muddy mountain gear and as I stood at the end of the track in nowt but my underpants there suddenly appeared a cavalcade of cars - the first bearing NO NUMBER PLATE but a coat-of-arms on a plate above the windscreen. As the procession passed I stood watching, unable to do anythin

Love that picture on the bottom right end corner you can see the alley which went thru from Kirkewhite St to Arkwright used to play football sometimes in the yard out of shot,and on the left side bottom cnr is the Sir Richard Arkwright the pub I met my wife in and the pub I had "dutch courage" drinks in before a 3.00pm event at St Saviours on the 30th Oct 1965. So here we are Sunday noon my wife cooking Sunday dinner in a sunny Bunbury(not street} Western Australia,thanks for the memories.

Morven from Wag:

I've noticed that there is a heading for Highbury Boys school a little lower down this list, but there isn't one for Highbury Infant school, So now there is. According to what I have read, there used to be a swimming pool in the grounds of Highbury boys school. That and another building were demolished in the late 1940's to create the Highbury Junior School. The junior school was completely separate from the Boys school. I went there for a couple of years (Not sure exactly how long). My recollection is that I went to Cantrell rd school in Bulwell as a first year infant aged five that would hav

I started Gotham infants in Sept 1958 & Mr Naylor looked old to me then, he was a grey haired bloke, defo older than his 20's, so the Clifton Naylor would be too young I reckon, could be related I suppose..

This was my first school & I remember my first day, I was introduced to Mrs (or Miss) Smith & she was nice & I liked her, I then met Mr Naylor, I didn't like him as he was shouting at some poor older kid who'd done sumat wrong & displeased him. I wasn't very impressed as I had to go back again the next day. I was only there a few months when I transferred to Aldercar infants school in Langley Mill, thing I remember about there is it had an open coal fire in the classroom & us kids had to fetch coal in for it, my teacher was Dads cousin & I was told not to call her Aunti

I've borrowed this from a Facebook page for Clifton-ites. This is the Naylor who was at Fairham; the photo is early 80s.

The name Naylor rings a bell from my sentence at Fairham Clifton, he was a religious education teacher so onto a loser with me right away, I didn't like him much either,wonder if he's the same bloke Colly0410 Rog

You just scroll down LL don't click

Roo meat is a very lean meet around 98% fat free and nutritionally very good for you. None of it is farmed, it is all from the wild population of Kangaroos. It is widely available in all major supermarkets and butchers but I don't eat it at home but do eat it when out as they seem able to cook it so much better than I can. If you do try it medium rare is the most you want to cook it to. It gets very tough if you cook it to well done.

Her Majesty did comment that whatever that man was wearing needed ironing!

The Last Time We Went To Town, 2008 I Think It Was..(This One Is Mine.)

A Picture To Cheer Us Up... (Not mine I hasten to add).

As you look at the picture,I have spent many an hour stood to the left of that doorway to Bridgway hall, with My grandmother selling poppy's for remembrance day, slightly off topic now,My grandmother and some of the ladies from the Meadows would meet in the hall and knit gloves,socks,balaclava's and scarves for the soldiers who were fighting in ww1, they also made up food parcels to send to the soldiers, I have a post card that was sent to my grandmother from my grandfather who was at Ypres thanking her "for the ham that they sent,because the canteen facilities aren't very good there at the mo

For those who cannot see the photos, here is the full album: A winter walk on the Caithness moors around Dirlot.

Compo, think of all the chips you can have with at lot !! Super pix by the way.

I posted these two pictures before the PB problems but thought it a good idea to re-post them, it is one of the Bantam tugs being lifted out of the water at Hykeham quarry Lincolnshire ready to be transported to Attenborough quarry around 2006,I drew up a lift plan and worked out all the lifting requirements for the lift and lower The tug weighed 8 ton Rog

I would never pass you Sue

I was the only white none officer in an artillery observation post team in Germany & they called me "white honky, I took no offence at all. My personal (self selected) password was "white honky." They were the best bunch of lads ever & we had great times in the German bars...

My grandmother used to stand outside there selling poppy's for rememberance day, I sometimes stood with her,I would be four or fives years old so 1956/57 Rog

This picture is of the local school children from Chilwell College House school having a days visit to Attenborough plant and quarry to see how sand and gravel is produced,the children were given a tug and hopper ride (sail) from the plant to the dig area and back a round trip of about one and half to two hours, the tug and hopper went out empty apart from the children and came back with all hands and a load of about 90 tons of raw material, The children being given a talk about the process and a safety talk from tug operator Terry Higgins before setting off for the Long Eaton dig

Here's an unusual picture of the Attenborough nature reserve, I took this picture from the cab of one of the barges of the Long Eaton footpath bridge,the barge had just been loaded at the Pasture lane loading head about half a mile from where I took this picture, there is about another two to two and half miles to go before getting back to the processing plant at Long lane Attenborough Rog

No Nonna,not old just mature but, like a good cheese or wine some are more mature than others Rog

If anyone does visit Newark the Prince Rupurt which I'd quite close to the market place does very good food. Pizzas are very good but it's not cheap.

Greedy DJ360 took all our sun away. Its freezing cold here , rained all night and some places have snow. Only a few days ago we were enjoying sitting out in the sun and I got a bit of a tan, well a bit pink. Glad you enjoyed it DJ, now we've got to wait until the sun returns

Well deserved break! Hope the sunshine has given you a boost!

Yes Phil.....mostly when i say 'friends' it would be more accurate to say acquaintances............

I bought all my shirts and underwear from M&S when I was younger. Good quality at reasonable prices and made in England, then some management clown tried to take the company 'up market' and it's never been the same since.

Done this when camping

I didn't (wrong gender, I was at Fairham) but my two sisters Valerie and Alison Bingham were at Charnwood as was my first wife, Carole Fowler. This would be mid to late 1960s.