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  1. This article appeared exactly 115 years ago in the Nottingham Daily Express of Feb 18th 1908 "Arrival of the "taxi". Latest addition to Nottinghams traffic. HUMBERS, LIMITED'S ENTERPRISE Ticking off the miles at the rate of a shilling a time, the motor taxi-cab has arrived in Nottingham. Whether it will stay, the success of the taxi" alone will decide, for the venture is purely an experimental one, and as far as can be gathered, not even the promoters have formulated a definite plan of future working. In all the glory of the characteristic "Humber red
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  2. County - That man Macauley Langstaff put county ahead in the 4th minute and made it a hat trick in time on in the second half after a penalty goal by Rodrigues gave them the lead in the 83rd minute. Most of the goals in the 1-4 away win against Yeovil Town came in the last 15 minutes of the game. Five points ahead of Wrexham who have two games in hand. Tuesday evening sees them at home against 6th placed Southend United. Stags - 0-2 away winners against mid table Tranmere Rovers. This keeps them in 5th place. They need to win the home game against 7th placed Salford City next Satur
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  3. The club closed Conegre lake in respect of the funeral. It's supposed to be a very good lake. The Trent nearby has been made accessible recently - must get down there.
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  4. Yes, they are the descendents of the Lincolnshire Frudds. I met a member of that family over 50 years ago.
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  5. Back to the quarry, sand and gravel extraction, a Priestman drag line loading a Bedford? Thames? Ford? truck at what is now Tattershall Lakes holiday complex on the A153 road about a mile after Tattershall bridge heading towards Tattershall, at the time of this photo the company was called Castle Gravels the main road is behind the buildings you can see in the distance Rog
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  6. A lot of old quarries are filled with water but some are returned to agriculture, root crops can't be grown for five years though until the soil structure has regained most of it's original body so grass and cereals only, the water is usually very clear because it's mainly ground water instead of being stream fed, if the quarries are to be filled with water they are clay lined using the clay from the bottom of the "dig" after the usable minerals have been extracted Rog
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  7. I can remember as a lad of about 13, swimming in the used gravel pits that were at Hemlockstone, which is now the site of Bramcote Crematorium. The processing plant was the other side of the road and was still working at that time. There was a little thatched building next to the entrance and we kids firmly believed it was a witches cottage and we were terrified when passing it. Turned out it was the weighbridge office. One thing I distinctly remember was the clarity of the water. When swimming under water you could see all the weeds growing. We even found and swam round a wrecked car.
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  8. When some of the gravel pits in the Bleasby/Thurgarton area were exhausted in the 50/60's they were filled with power station ash, piped in a slurry, from the then coal burning Staythorpe A an B power stations. They have been grassed over for years but a few remain as fishing lakes and wildlife areas.
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  9. Most people think of big holes in the ground when they think of "gravel pits/quarries" but there's a bit more to them than that, here is a section of the processing plant (they are nearly all built on the same lines) where the sand, silt and gravel are separated after that the sands are separated into soft sand, sharp sand and silt (waste product), the gravels are sorted into different sizes ie: 40mm, 20mm, 10mm and sometimes 6mm depending on customer demand, anything above 40mm and in some cases above 20mm are sent to the crusher to be crushed and sent through the system again to come out the
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  10. Well, sadly, that's what happens when you don't wear a liberty bodice! Should've gone to Ford's!
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  11. Fascinating reading. It would have been great to see a picture of the said vehicle. Do the drivers today, still sit in their seat with a fag on? Well done DavidW.
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  12. Sadly Van McCoy died of a heart attack in 1979 aged only 39, just four years after this record.
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  13. Dancing in the 60s was great but in the 70s it got even better....... Flared trousers...big collars...Wide Ties...Cuban heels.......loved a good ''Strutt''.......
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  14. I was in the same class at Gedling in the 60s with John Frudd of the Mapperley plumbing company . Later on in the 70s , when married , we moved next door to John's parents on Norman Road , off Porchester Rd.
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  15. It'll never catch on. Things have changed a bit since then. These days I believe that in order to qualify as a taxi driver you have to take a test to demonstrate that you have no idea how to drive on public roads. A reminder that Nottingham had its own car/motorbike industry back in those days; and why there's a Humber Road in Beeston. The factory closed in 1908.
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  16. No Rog, just the Frudds. Bloxholm cemetery’s full of them. It was quite a surprise when we found it. I think they migrated to Nottingham to look for work when farming was going through a thin time.
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  17. I don’t know if you fished at the Conegre Farm lake at Hoveringham but they buried the owner Chris Lee last Wednesday. I’ve not fished for over 10 years when I was last in Scotland. I doubt if I know one end of my rod from the other now!
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  18. Phil - we really should go fishing together one day. I have yet to go to our club water at Thurgaton. Just two trout this afternoon but a few blanks with other members. Gave one of the trout to our Ghurkha neighbour and we fried the other for tea. Our neighbour brought half of the trout that he had cooked over to us and we added a bit + juices to our fried one. He knows about spices!
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  19. Yes that was a fast straight road but it was a bit ropey the last time I drove it just before Christmas. I like Lincolnshire, some of my ancestors farmed there in the 1800’s. They lived at Bloxholme near Sleaford and I discovered a churchyard full of family graves when I was researching my ancestry both in Bloxholme and the surrounding villages.
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