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More about food for the needy. I had forgotten in times of crisis our village does what they call " Spesa sospesa" which means shopping waiting more or less with " We cannot change the world but everyone of us can change the life of someone" When shopping for yourself buy extra and pay for it but leave the products in the store to be used by the needy. It's also popular in the bars ( which at the moment are closed) when you go to the bar and have your whatever then pay for your friend or acquaintance that has already has his coffee etc, so,next time his coffee etc is paid for and he usually do

Winwood Heights is built on the old Sherwood Railway Station, but many of yoiu already know that !

I've got into Dad's Army in the last couple of years, it's always being repeated on BBC2. Back at the time, I was aware of it but thought it was 'about old people, for old people'. I now think it's intelligent, clever, and funny. And it hasn't dated through time; it didn't depend on anything fashionable or contemporary.

I remember the Park Tunnel meetup. Finishing off at the Wetherspoon pub The Company Inn.

Quick update..........Syd and Babs completely in love with Donna....follow her from room to room......she woke this morning to Syd purring in one ear and Babs on her chest.....Happy Cats

Lost count of the number of times the media have shown images of somebody having a jab - good job it's in tne arm and not the backside!!

As an aside, I lifted this picture from a 29min.video on YT. It's called, "Daybrook to Bestwood walk", going along the old track bed. The map shows the old lines that were around that area. I can post the video if anyone wants to see it. I found it very interesting.

Ben, we’ll have to agree to differ! Asymmetrical designs aren't identical, but do have some similar properties, such as color, height or design style. This type of placement doesn't use equal balancing. In fact, odd numbers work best for added interest. A grouping of three vases that are different heights, shapes and sizes, but all have the same color palette and design style, makes a good asymmetrical grouping. Asymmetrical designs are great for casual and informal décors.

That’s not the incident’s headline in my Daily Mail

The first I knew about Nottingham Suburban Railway was when I was buying a house on Mapperley Rise in the early 1980s. My solicitor said: "Do you know there is a tunnel under there?" He showed me a plan and sure enough the Sherwood tunnel was directly under the lounge. His next question was: "Do you want to get a structural survey done?" I thought that sounded prudent so went ahead. The surveyor said there was minimal risk as the tunnel was bored through sandstone.

Picture of the brickworks. Sherwood station along the bottom leading to the tunnel and you can see the railway spur line heading off into the brickworks. Woodthopre Drive across the top of the picture https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW057129 Similar view nowadays; https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9809353,-1.1430216,548a,35y,80.47h,50.98t/data=!3m1!1e3

I like ornaments etc to be positioned in an aesthetically pleasing way (to me) usually in threes, but they are never in a straight line and definitely not symmetrical!

thank you to @Stuart.C Lots of information in those links. I have seen it before but great to reread it all. Looking at the past and present photos, I think I could be on one of them! It was outside the house and said ? In the 1950s. There is a girl with a coach built pram on the right. When I was 13 or 14, I regularly used to take a neighbour's twins out in their pram into the park, and sometimes sat on that seat! That would be 1956/57. It is a bit blurry when the photo is enlarged but she actually seems to look like I used to at that age. Of course it probably isn't me but it g

Take heart Ben you're not on your own. My dearly beloved is the same and it's not me who slightly moves stuff to see if she notices... honest!

Some words have more than one syllable! That won't sell papers.

The road bridge over the spur is still there. https://goo.gl/maps/ksvGJ2hVwqJJUrKg6

Cats have now taken to sitting in the window,,,they were fascinated watching the snow coming down........... Plus they disturb my artistic window dressing by moving even the heavy ornaments.....Donna put them all back but she has no idea of 'SYMMETRY'' i have to have everything Symmetrical........ocd i think...........

There is a bright light outside - discovered that it's called the sun Did the usual 10k on the rower this morning. Another 20 planned for this afternoon while watching the snooker. Half way through the challenge to reach Inverness by the end of the month.

This shows some of the mineral lines as well as the suburban line. From a PDF on here, even has pic of Mr Ashwell; http://woodthorpefriends.co.uk/ Bottom row, Woodthorpe Park Historical & Pictorial Guide

Yes. The Park tunnel meet up was one of the most interesting ones. We started on Derby Rd and IAN gave us an interesting running commentary all the way around. Pity it rained.

The Go Between, 1971, would have to be in there somewhere. Harold Pinter's brilliant screenplay of Hartley's novel.

Ah, she takes the tin opener to bed!

When me and the wife were first 'Sparking'' we used to copy ''Brief Encounter'' and meet either on Peterborough or Nottingham stations..............

Not sure where I got this story from, but here goes. The tunnel was built approximately mid 18hundreds, for the carriages to get to the Park Estate. It was never used for what it was built for as it turned out to be too steep for the horses to drag the carriages up there? We attended that Tunnel meet up and it was a lovely day. Sorry to say it rained throughout the walk, but the company made up for that. I believe Sue (Mrs Catfan) took some pictures and made a presentation of them, it was brilliant, I had a look on our Nottstalgia Social Events thread and there was also some

I remember Wilfrid Bramble (old man Steptoe) playing Paul's grandfather. In a 1999 survey of 1000 people involved in the British Film Industry voted it the 88th of films in the 20th century that were "culturally British" The top 5 in the survey were The Third Man - 1949 Brief Encounter - 1945 I've never seen or heard of this one Lawrence of Arabia - 1962 The 39 Steps - 1935 Great Expectations - 1946 Missed this one The most "modern" one is from 1998 The complete list is here BFI Top 100 British films - Wikipedia The 100 Best TV s

After the Nottstalgians walked through this tunnel (we missed that meet up) Paul and I walked through it on our next visit to Nottingham . I never knew of its existence until then

This film has a wonderful charm, a bit before my time but recognise the chap from Crackerjack.. Was Luicille the neglected lass singing the sombre song? Given the artists and sound, I'm sure the brilliant Joe Meek must have played a part. However..best thing musically, Kenny Ball and Gene Vincent...

Easy. Go to Google Maps. Find where you live.. either leave it as a map, or select 'Satellite'. Home in on the bit you want to show. Copy the URL from the Address bar and post it here... Here's the house I useter live in in Nottm.. which is no longer nything to do with my family: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9975478,-1.1758293,59m/data=!3m1!1e3 And if you pick up the little yellow figure bottom right and place him on your map.. you can then move his view about.. which is how I got this: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9977369,-1.17597,3

I mentioned a number of road and farm names. If you zoom in you will find them. However.. I also took a lot of photos with every intention of posting them... but late last evening we realised that the house was getting a bit chilly... It turned out there was a fault on the CH boiler so that we had hot water.. but no circulation through the radiators. Typical... coldest night of the year. So I spent a lot of time trying what little I know about boilers.. to fix it.. to no avail. I also had to drag a couple of ancient fan heaters out of the garage to give us some heat... Spent mos

Live it up,,1963,,can't sleep so watching it,,,Lucille Hewitt Corry sings in it,,what i did find interesting was Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen also featured,, Gave my bed up for him at the "Dolphin Hotel"" in Cleethorpes back in 74 ish,

Reading all these post makes me feel very much a 'newbie' but the calendar tells me that in two weeks time we will have live just off Hempshill Lane for 35 years so Thanks for the history lesson. I had never heard of the Black Horse before DJ360's post but just this evening whilst catching up on some FB notifications this pic. came up!

Who you gonna blame? @DJ360 Myself, it’s the last time I buy a car with low profile run flat tyres, only brought it for the wheels, you need proper tyres in this country.

Did you know - 2020 went faster than we thought! https://trib.al/QAbZse4?fbclid=IwAR2db_FyQR6OHDwL9y4zVSEmk1REuwcLAXyf6ByDP3X77PNspf7pnvE1Bzo hope the link works

I was a ‘Teenager in Love’ when those 2 songs were popular- also only sixteen. Mind you I was nearly always in love with some lad or another when I was a teenager !!

Ahh Craig Douglas Ben., Another one of his was "Teenager in love" also "only sixteen". Once heard Marty Wilde sing teenager in love, he must have been about 46 at the time He had daughter Kim by then.

Watched ''Play it cool''1962 the other night starring 'Billy Fury.'' He sang some great stuff......dead smart suit collar and Tie...a right good looking bloke...,,,BUT he could.nt Act......neither could Helen Shapiro Alvin Stardust or Bobby Vee......but enjoyed the Music Last night watched Craig Douglas in a film,,,,he was an old favourite of mine...'''Pretty blue Eyes''' 1960 remember that? Used to play it in my Bedroom so that Christine 4 doors away''' could hear it....Dad played Hell lol

If you missed the first one last week, Talking Pictures have started showing episodes of the old TV series 'Budgie' with Adam Faith. I watched it back in the day and was a big fan. I caught the first episode last week and it had stood the test of time better than many things from that era. Highlight of each episode was often Ian Cutherbertson as Charlie Endall.......and I used to really fancy Budgie's girlfriend Hazel (Lynn Dalby). It's on Tuesdays at 9pm until further notice.

Another bit of sentimental tat which I've posted before somewhere on here. My dad took loads of family photos when I was younger, and I've still got most of them. There's probably a photo here for every week of my life until my early teens.