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  1. Understand that the Lord Roberts is not closing down but that they are carrying out a refurbishment. Speaking to someone about it recently and he mentioned something I didn't know about the place in that there is a large cellar room potentially suitable for live music.
  2. Just a note on this. The Seven Mile House (and perhaps nowadays, the Seven Mile restaurant to a degree) are well known local landmarks of course, situated as they are seven miles from both Nottingham and Mansfield. I have however, seen reference to a distinct and different 'Five Mile House' in Notts historical stuff. I have often wondered exactly what this building is/was and have come to the conclusion it was the old Guide House in Redhill (Gadsby's farm) which stood on Mansfield Road, a little further north of the Waggon and Horses and on the same side. That would be (getting on for) five mi
  3. I have one abiding memory of the Parliament House. Between the two bars there was an open doorway with one of those sets of 'streamers' as a walk-through curtain. It was suitably down at heel with several of the streamers chewed off (by the locals presumably) and cigarette burns etc. A typical high end Shippos boozer.
  4. Now a private home on Main Street just up from the Cross Keys? https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.0292685,-1.0278718,3a,75y,356.47h,90.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7ifUF9eI3_Mk3KkCAHqNSQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
  5. I go to Porters whenever I'm in Newark. Indeed, some of the best sausages available there, 'oak smoked' and 'Newark' ones are superb..
  6. Tom Turner's on Front Street, Arnold. Classic hardware shop on Arnold's main shopping thoroughfare that began trading in 1912 (pictured below in 1920). The type of shop that you could go and buy a couple of screws that you needed rather than a gross. It stood for most of its tenure on the area that is is now the Asda supermarket before latterly moving across the road and slightly north. Great old traditional and local business which is much missed.
  7. Always heard the orange tent referred to as the 'Trisail'. Think it was stored underneath the Council House.
  8. That's just the back of the Blue Bell, K which has an Upper Parliament Street address.
  9. What a great shame. Absolutely loved Father Ted and his part in it.
  10. Jim Baxter had arguably his greatest ever game only a few months before Forest signed him in December 1967 when he dismantled England almost singlehandedly at Wembley in April '67. Nobody could lay a glove on him that day. He was imperious. It wasn't though a true reflection of his waning capabilities for playing at a consistent level week in week out due to his poor fitness levels and the drinking. Forest however sought a get-out-of-jail-free card in Jim to please a very disgruntled City Ground crowd at the time due to key players being sold off. I've even heard the story that Forest could a
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    Ray Trew

    We all know the club will be sold. It will take time and this is obviously Trew's opening gambit in negotiations with potential suitors. Rather them than me though!
  12. Yes, thanks Michael (and Loppy and all). As I read once, you just have to learn to carry these things. There is little other choice. I went to Southwell today to go the market and do a little shopping and a mooch around for a bit. It was something Sue and I would do frequently on a Saturday afternoon so it felt odd and a bit strange but I always said I'd try to never have any 'no-go' zones, especially somewhere like Southwell where I love. Life goes on.
  13. Not NCT but a company called Bellamy Coaches interestingly, started running a Routemaster service between Arnold and Nottingham a few years ago. If I recall correctly, NCT muscled them off the route by putting extra buses on their corresponding service (number 58). https://stuartfrew.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/hold-tight/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7316338.stm
  14. I think I read somewhere that Sherwood has the widest price range of housing in Nottingham. One or two of the pubs are a bit 'rum' there these days but there's a couple of decent ones. Some decent places to eat too. In addition, Sherwood must have just about the best bus service for the city in Nottingham. It also has a nice park too in Woodthorpe Grange.
  15. Since my partner took her own life just two years ago in early February, St. Valentine's Day has become a day that I'd rather pass quickly. Unfortunately, there is always the other side of the coin for so many people with all these landmark days and holidays.
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    One Liners.

    Your smileys are not quite coming out right for me, Lizzie!
  17. #1164 I think I know the pub you mean, Rob. My local Marstons is The Burntstump which tends to blow hot and cold I think. With the ridiculous 'two for one' means as well it means that odd numbers don't pay reasonable prices. No wonder they're constantly sending out free offers.
  18. I am pretty much the same, Catfan. The pub of choice for me most often is relatively reasonably priced for the city. It's maybe not the only or most compelling reason I go there regularly but certainly an important additional one. If I think a pub is taking the mickey then that tends to deter me from going there. Such a pub is the Orange Tree which I've used extensively in the past, being previously both a student and staff member across the road at Nottingham Trent. Apparently now, this pub seems to imagine that it can charge tip-top 'town' prices and yet nothing about the place has changed
  19. Regarding the reason for pubs closing down, many of which have been mentioned, I'd go for price being number one. Drinking in pubs is a pretty expensive hobby these days. I suppose when you think about it, there have been a fair spread of city, suburban and rural pubs increasingly closing their doors over the past few years the ones that seem to have suffered the most to me appear to be many of the suburban, estate type pubs, typically built in relatively modern times, unlovely quite often and the public have voted with their feet and wallets/purses. A few examples of this not too far from wh
  20. If all else fails you can just type a colon : and a closing parenthesis ) together to get this
  21. Hear, hear, Benjamin. I can't think of anything worse, much rather be around the ladies.
  22. To take your point, what sort of crime, Benji? Violence was mentioned also. There are always many exceptions of course there are but I cannot believe that there is proportionately more or equal violent crime in rural areas.
  23. Thirty seven posts and nobody's mentioned West Bridgford yet! Nor Bingham for that matter which always seems to come out well in these sorts of things.
  24. Where is that taken from, K, somewhere around Compton Acres? Would the line of trees on the horizon above the Council House be Forest Road perhaps?