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Nice pictures Rog, let's have a few more...B.

Slightly better pictures, from Coventry Motor Museum taken by Elliot Brown and found on flickr

This is probably close to what the Humber taxi looked like , this from 1907

Re, The Parcel Sorting Office, I took these this morning, progress is relatively slow due the the nature of it's construction,

Lovely walk in the Lincolnshire country side this morning, blue sky and warm sunshine Such a shame that churches have to be locked these days, sign of the times I suppose, I am in no way a religious person quite the opposite but there is something about old buildings that I do like Rog

A very good morning to all member 's Have not posted for a while VERY GLAD TO KNOW THAT I HAVE BEEN MISSED?? I was taken into QMC for urgent spine surgery not yet fully recoverd but you with pleased to know I am back in action even if its only to cause havoc on the site.

Thanks Carni hope to be at next meet up

Cheers Ben

They both seem to be the same thing, derived from horse drawn.

Hurry up mary hope alls well.

Thanks Rog. I have those very same photos from about 20 years back. Fruddsville we christened it! The church is kept locked but the key was obtainable from an old lady at the nearby crumbling hall. No doubt she’s gone up in the sky since I last saw her. My great grandmother was one of the Frudds. Re churches. Our village church is open every day. We're not members but my wife is on the door opening/closing rota. Were it me it would stay closed!

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The beautiful Whitney...loved her in the 80s.....had a few years as a single parent back in Nottingham with 3 boys hard but good times.........my lads still talk about them days with fondness.......i even hit the Palais again some crazy times.....all ended in the mid 80s when i wed the lady of my life......and introduced her to our fair City.....she even says '''Ey up Duck''' now............

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

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

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.

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.

I went to most of the Nottingham clubs - but I always preferred Huchnall Welfare! Susyshoes - didn't you find that the Welly had such a great buzz? If you were there when Heatwave played then maybe you remember Katie Kookaburra (she used this surname as a joke - though some of the guys didn't get it). I didn't realise at the time how significant this person would turn out to be - maybe a future post for that. Katie was there with two friends - all three were D.D.G. and were getting male attention all night. I think most of the Hucknall girls were a bit teed-off. If I remember correctly a