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BR Standard loco in the rarely photographed Awsworth Station. Forty Bridges visible in the background. Loco is pointing towards Derby (Friargate GN). Judging by the sate of the loco I guess it is in the last days of steam.

Great post nonna. You are so right about short term memory becoming less efficient as one ages. I know some people seem to cope with it better than others, but I suspect most people experience it more and more as they age. Most just make a joke of it but it can be annoying and embarrassing when you can't remember names of people you've known for years, amongst other things. Recently, I've been helping a friend of mine with Maths ready for her NVQ Functional Maths Level 2 exam. I love Maths (passed my O level Maths at the end of the 4th form) and I like explaining how to do calcu

I think that is the key to it all. The fact that everyone knows everything (accurate or false) as soon as it happens - or even before in some cases. This is the first pandemic which has played out on the internet. That's one of the main reasons why people bought too many toilet rolls and pasta. Too much information to take in, too often, and immediately jumping to a gut-reaction conclusion. It the internet had existed for any of the earlier pandemics, I'm sure there would've been more hysteria.

It's still way too early to make direct comparisons. Hong Kong Flu, as stated by the article was / is a seasonal flu. Covid as yet has not run long enough to be determined as seasonal, it may keep killing at the same rate throughout the year so the total numbers could exceed H-K Flu. The average numbers of deaths (from that article) from H-K flu in 68/69 were with very little intervention from Governments and others. At that time they had no idea how bad it would spread. The deaths from Covid are at a similar rate BUT with massive intervention and we knew

Still there....the last pair of upmarket semis before the junction with Woodborough Road. https://goo.gl/maps/hJ6YxD9d2Xo7NM2cA

I very much agree. I love crosswords and codewords but they have to be difficult. I'll often memorise a piece of poetry each day and frequently mentally recite the titles of Shakespeare's plays if I can't sleep at night!

But what was destroyed though, Jill? Old bus station and car-park replaced by new bus station and car-park. Carrington St car-park and the shops on east side, ( Electricity showroom, four or five shoe shops, the closed-down Gunn & Moore, Macfisheries and Burtons ) many went into the new Centre. Old Broad Marsh itself; warehousing, a few small factory units, a newsagents and the Tower pub. Nothing lost there. Some folk have mourned the demise of Drury Hill but remember it had all been condemned by the '70s. It's possible to look back and think why didn't someone have a vision to

Everyone has their own unique perspective and is always welcome to join in PP

97, Dunstan Street, Netherfield, Nottingham, the place of my childhood. Living at 95 were the 'Hooper's' and at 99 the 'Williams's'. This was a council house, one of two separated blocks of 4 on that street which consisted of terraced houses, in blocks of 20 or more. The street lighting, initially, consisted of gas lamps giving out an eerie yellow light. Every other one had a cycle tyre hanging over it, being used by children as giant hoopla's. Netherfield was a railway and mining community. At what was called the bottom end of Netherfield was the largest railway marshalling yard in the c

Here ya go ! Advert from 1942 , there are hundreds of mentions of the home in the Births Deaths and Marriages columns between 1939 and 1948 CAPABLE and kind person to be with a sick lady nightly. — Southern Bank Nursing Home, 70 and 72 Mapperley-road, Nottingham. 23 November 1942 - Nottingham Evening Post

My apologies for the ambiguity in my previous post. Could have been worded better, sometimes my brain and typing finger whilst lickety splitting the same slope, don't necessarily do it at the same time. I worry that I tend to bang on a bit, leading to my post sometimes not appearing on paper the same as my thought process. You are correct, Netherfield as a town didn't exist until after the railways came. The ambiguity arised as I put old maps and street names in the same sentance: up until WW1, a lot of adverts for housing rental gave the street names in Colwick and no

Poundof best Butter mrs TBI.........3/6.......Number of Surf in a box....12..........thankyou hows Mr TBI ?..Did he watch England win the World Cup ?

I shall have to try some of those methods. At the moment I'm looking and trying to remember where the contraption is for putting a tile in to prevent mosquitoes taking bites out of me ( yes I know they don't bite but it feels like they have big jaws) you see I can't even remember the names of the things in English. I put tile because in italian it's called piastrine and the contraption is called the elettromanatore. Now can you see that I couldn't remember their names

I like the Guardian cryptic and can sometimes get the Independent done too. I suppose we have individual strategies, some folk could tell you the price of a pound of butter or how many boxes of Surf were in an outer in1966.

I subscribe very much to the 'use it or lose it' ethos. Amongst a daily regime of cerebral activities, soduku, crosswords etc I also set myself memory challenges. Amongst other things, I recently memorised the locations all the US states and their capitals, you never know when that might come in handy .

I'm sure you're right, Nonna. I am no exception to the rule. Both my parents had phenomenal memories right into their 80s and the day they toddled off into the wide blue yonder. My father also had excellent eyesight. I'm almost 63 and don't need glasses as yet. I think genetics has much to do with it. My older sister, 70 in a few days, has always had a poor memory and has needed glasses since she was 20. I must be lucky!

I wouldn’t mind!

I was under the impression that the name Netherfield didn't come into existence until the arrival of the railway in the 1870s. It doesn't appear on any maps before that time. The settlements in that area were Carlton. Gedling, Colwick and Stoke Bardolph. What became Netherfield was just an empty space in the middle of those places.

A guess,, Nottingham Garden Workers and Horticuluralist Social Club

From my healthcare background I can tell you that this virus is far more dangerous than the flu virus. About 10 times more deadly. It really is nasty. My step son is currently on a flight to Moscow and then to St Petersburg, I have asked him to be careful.

Alas I don't have that sort of phone or Alexa wotsit. I have discovered this wonderful method called paper and pencil. Both served me for well over fifty years. Admitted, I am using my tablet to create a shopping list for the purpose of online delivery slots, (only just mastered that !). These all singing, all dancing devices scare the hell outa me. All this techno talk about streaming, vlogs, blogs etc just leaves me cold. What happened to thinking? Alright, I know I'm a dinosaur, but I prefer to stay in control. By the way Alexa, put the kettle on and butter my toast soldiers.

This is the only mention that I can find of the toll in the old newspapers , this from the Nottingham Guardian 19/08/1893 . Seems the gate was put up in 1800 and there is mention of the 11.5 feet closed part and the open 3.5. feet opening , enough for a rider on a horse to pass through which matches the photo in #1 .