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  2. Delay Redeveloping the NCV Garage Site on Hucknall Road.

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    The main two ways of accessing it, Col, are from Henry Street, turn into there and immediately turn left into Harberton Close. Within a few yards the path begins on the right, tracing up behind the houses on the south side of Henry Street. It takes you past New (Hammonds) Farm and you just keep going straight to Bestwood Village (around 2m).

    A simpler, more obvious way is to locate Thornton Avenue from Mansfield Road. It lies a couple of hunred yards south of the junction with Redhill Road on the opposite side. Simply walk up there and it takes you straight on to the same path, joining up with the other route at New Farm gates. The path is very obvious all the way to Bestwood Village.

  3. What do you love about Nottingham?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Here's a few marble names to stir the memories, taken from Wikipedia. 'Alleys was a term I remember, and shooters.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_(toy)#Marble_terminology

    http://www.imarbles.com/kindsofmarbles.php

    • Aggie - made of agate (aggie is short for agate) or glass resembling agate, with various patterns like in the alley
    • Alley or real - made of marble or alabaster (alley is short for alabaster), streaked with wavy or other patterns with exotic names like corkscrew, spiral, snake, ribbon, onyx, swirl, bumblebee, and butterfly
      • Ade - strands of opaque white and color, making lemon-ade, lime-ade, orange-ade, etc.
      • Cat's eye or catseye - central eye-shaped colored inserts or cores (injected inside the marble)
        • Beachball - three colors and six vanes
        • Devil's eye - red with yellow eye
      • Clambroth - equally spaced opaque lines on a milk-white opaque base. Rare clams can have blue or black base glass. Medium-high value for antique marbles; rare base color valued much higher.
      • Lutz - antique, handmade German swirl, containing bands of fine copper flakes that glitter like gold. Erroneously thought to have been invented by noted glassmaker Nicholas Lutz. Medium-high value for antique marbles, depending on specific sub-type of Lutz design.
      • Oilie or oily - opaque with a rainbow, iridescent finish
      • Onionskin - antique, handmade German swirl, with many closely packed surface streaks. Medium price range for antique marbles.
      • Opaque - a popular marble that comes in many colors
      • Oxblood - a streaky patch resembling blood
      • Pearls - opaque with single color with mother of pearl finish
      • Toothpaste - also known as plainsies in Canada. Wavy streaks usually with red, blue, black, white, orange.
      • Turtle - wavy streaks containing green and yellow
    • Bumblebee - modern, machine-made marble; mostly yellow with two black strips on each side
    • China - glazed porcelain, with various patterns similar to an alley marble. Geometric patterns have low value; flowers or other identifiable objects can command high prices.
      • Plaster - a form of china that is unglazed
    • Commie or common - made of clay; natural color or monochrome coloration. Made in huge quantities during 19th and early 20th centuries.
      • Bennington - clay fired in a kiln with salt glaze—usually brown, often blue. Other colorations fairly scarce. Fairly low value.
      • Crock - made from crockery (earthenware) clay
    • Croton alley or jasper - glazed and unglazed china marbled with blue
    • Crystal or clearie or purie - any clear colored glass - including "opals," "glimmers," "bloods," "rubies," etc. These can have any number of descriptive names such as "deep blue sea", "blue moon", "green ghost", "brass bottle".
      • Princess - a tinted crystal
      • Galaxy - modern, machine-made marble; lots of dots inserted to look like a sky of stars
    • Indian - antique, handmade German marble; dark and opaque, usually black, with overlaid groups of color bands; usually white, and one or more other colors. Can also have many colors like blue, green and scarlet. Medium price range for antique marbles.
    • Mica - antique, handmade German marble; glassy to translucent with streaks or patches of mica, ranging from clear to misty. Value depends on glass color.
    • Steely - made of steel; a true steely (not just a ball-bearing) was made from a flat piece of steel folded into a sphere and shows a cross where the corners all come together.
    • Sulphide - antique, handmade German marble; large (1.25 to 3+ inch) clear glass sphere with a small statuette or figure inside. Most common are domesticated animals such as dogs, cats, cows, etc.; then wild animals; human figures are scarce; inanimate objects such as a train or pocket watch are very rare and command high prices. The interior figures are made of white clay or kaolin, and appear a silvery color due to light refraction. A sulphide with a colored-glass sphere, or with a painted figure inside, is also very rare and brings a high price. Like other types of antique marbles, sulphides have been reproduced and faked in large quantities.
    • Swirly - is a common marble made out of glass with one swirly color.
    • Tiger- clear with orange-yellow stripes
    • Baby - white with colours visible on the outside

  6. What do you love about Nottingham?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Never went out with another Nottingham girl, but I would have eventually. Actually married an American gal my own age? She's a fine lady too. I'm not saying nowt else! She's computer literate and I don't know if she reads Nottstalgia or not. All I've told her is that I enjoy this site about Nottingham.

    If she saw my picture of Jake she'd know who I was. Good grief she might be rading every post I make.

    That's right, Loppy, any one of us could actually be her - have you thought of that?

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    Anyway, enough of this...I'm parched, put the kettle on, dear and I'll be talking to you shortly.

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  9. What do you love about Nottingham?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    This has generated a lot of fast posting. Obviously an important sub topic. lol.

    All I know is that I dated several girls before I met my late wife. Without exception, they were attractive, well spoken and I respected them no matter what their background.

    I don't get the impression that is the case today. Certainly not in this country. Can't honestly speak for Nottingham.

    All light-hearted on my part.

    For some reason though I've never been out with a Nottingham girl since teen years. Partners have been Canadian/American/American etc.

  15. Things our parents used to say

    in Nottingham Lingo

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    On thinking about her she never used to swear if she did anything where others would swear she would say " bally thing" thank you imp for bringing back memories.

    That's interesting. A possible North-East of England/East coast Scotland sharing of words - as I've seen many times.

    My Scottish father would refer to me as a 'bally nuisance' if I was misbehaving when I was a bairn.

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  18. Things you don't see anymore

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    #3340: Apparently, satchels are now back in fashion but cost around a hundred pounds each. They have become "Must have" fashion items for the Chelsea set and others of a similar ilk.

    Not my bag (see what I did there) but you need to shop somewhere else. They've got them on Amazon starting at around a fiver.

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  19. Jigsaw puzzle season

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Interesting, Stu. If wooden jigsaws were always cut by hand-held or machine saw, irrespective how thin the blade was I would imagine that there was always a certain amount of sloppiness in the fit.

    Maybe they could supply the purchaser with a small bag of sawdust to fill in any gaps. :)

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  20. Jigsaw puzzle season

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Most jigsaws are made of stamped-out cardboard, but some are wooden. I have long wanted to know how the wooden ones are made. They can't saw the pieces out because they would get a sloppy fit and part of the image would be missing. Anyone know how they are cut? I am assuming that they too are stamped out but the cuts look too fine for that, I think.

    This article demonstrates the different ways in which they can be made, Chulla.

    I've observed die-cut machines at work in the past in my former work in the print trade. Clever stuff.

    http://www.jigthings.com/manufacturing-jigsaw-puzzles/

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  21. What do you love about Nottingham?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    So much has been spoiled in Nottingham city centre but glimpses of the past still jump out at me from my teens and early twenties when I was studying at Trent and enjoying the city's nightlife. These bring some very happy memories of good times.

    The great thing about it for me then, as now, was that you could easily walk around practically all of it on an evening -unlike other cities with a similar population.

    I still enjoy the fact that it has some seriously old pubs and I think they tend to get taken for granted, or more often ignored these days.

    There is still something about Slab Square - semi-ruined that it arguably is. It's a huge area relatively and still feels very much the 'centre of things' to me - in spite of everything.

    I like the fact that two first-class football grounds and an international cricket ground are within the span of a few hundred yards. I remember Don Masson's words when he spoke of seeing Nottingham on the TV before he signed for Notts when the Test Matches were on and thinking what a great sporting city it looked. I totally agree with The Don's early assessment.

    I'm an ice hockey fan of many decades and enjoy the fact that Nottingham is most certainly 'Hockey City GB' - without question. I like the fact that a bunch of Canadian lads brought it to the Lace City and the city took the game to its heart.

    Not nowadays so prevalent but I liked the salt of the earth attitude that the mining towns of Notts gave to the county. Good honest working class people.

    I have to be honest and can't say that Nottingham's people feel any more or less friendly than many other places I have been in this world but I'll tell you what I really like about Nottingham's people, it's their slight sense of rebelliousness and 'sticking it to the man'. With a long history of social unrest encapsulated by 'Ned Ludd' - real or imagined. The same goes for the outlaw felly in Sherwood Forest - real or imagined. It's a feeling and an attitude and I quite admire it.

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  22. Supermarket pricing policies?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Regarding supermarket pricing policy, being a person who performs the trudge round the local supermarket on a regular weekly basic, I always find the pricing slightly sickening either side of the Christmas/New Year period.

    When we buy some similar products every week we get to know the price of goods and it's clear that most food is priced at the top of it's pricing range pre-Christmas - when many people often feel emotionally tied into 'having a good Christmas', providing for their families and not going short of things as they might (have to) at other times of the year.

    As soon as the holidays are over the 'bargains' are on the shelves again - because they know that people are absolutely skint and often overspent and it's the only way they'll shift the stuff.

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