taxi ray

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  1. When we went to Whitby last year, there was a steam lorry that had been converted into a bus, this was doing trips around the town, it was pretty fast and a little noisy. The owner was the driver of the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter films, as he worked on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
  2. Ashley, Is right image number NTGM017388 on picture the past clearly shows the stylo shop, but it looks like macfisheries has gone.
  3. That was a schoolfriends dads allotment, he had it at about the same time as you, so probably before you, as i can remember he had it about 76- 77, his dad was the manager of the Liptons supermarket in Lenton. I lived on Grove road then so it was very local to me, being at the beginning of the lane that ran from Grove road to Gregory street. I have crossed that railway bridge many a time, it was all part of our playground.
  4. Did that allotment have a electricity pylon in it?
  5. I saw this last week and looking at it today it has got bigger, I read in the evening post about plans for a sports village in Giltbrook, but reading the article it said that it was next to the M1 where the A610 meets junction 26, there is also a picture that places it roughly at this point, so I presume that they are getting the site ready.http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Fears-ambitious-plans-UK-s-sports-village/story-15265328-detail/story.html
  6. Here is a link to a photo of the viaduct, dated october 1964, it was certainly an impressive structure, I cant remember seeing it or reading anything about it being demolished. I was at Cotgrave whilst it was being demolished for a few weeks, it was a shame, but every where you looked there was good machinery and spare parts all in good condition, just being left for scrap. I went to the top of the towers, and there was even a spare electric motor, for the winding gear ready at the top in case it was needed the motor weighed over 18 tonnes, and came down when they blew the towers.http://www.s
  7. slightly off topic, but as i passed the railway bridge that goes over the a52 near Radcliffe on Trent, yesterday they were lifting the track and sleepers in large sections, using a rail mounted crane. Anybody know what is being planned
  8. That is a track laying machine, you can sometimes see them in Toton. They deliver the track sections from Balfour Beatty, to the old freightliner depot next to Boots, for assembly, for delivery by rail, some of the track laying trains are over a mile long. They were testing a new track laying train on the old High Marnham power station line near tuxford last year. There is a video on you tube, TRACK LAYING MACHINE
  9. I took a couple of photos in January, the grave seemed to look as though no one was looking after it.
  10. They have a couple of scooter rallies at MFN every year, they are always well attended.
  11. He has now denied it, I think they just put a bit of scandal in the book in order to sell it.
  12. Keith Curle was recommended by Neil Warnock, is it Neils way of getting his own back!
  13. BBC website says that Keith Curle will be appointed manager this afternoon
  14. Looking at the photos on your link, the steel bridge that was at the bottom of trent lane, was removed in about 1987 or 1988, I was working on that job, the main spans were lifted out over a saturday night. They dont make them like that anymore.
  15. I have a copy of an early map of that area, the church is shown but not the other streets mentioned. When I put Regent Hill Sneinton into the Bing search engine I got a couple of sites mentioning census records from that, these showed the people that were there and a brief summary of who they were, if you cant find them I will add a link to them http://www.well-and.co.uk/Welland-p/pd3.htm#i506
  16. poohbear, have a look at this it seems that Element place was where they built st. matthias church, which is just off of Carlton road,the road at the side of the now closed co-op. http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/sneinton-st-matthias/hhistory.php
  17. Thats the Pilgrim oak in Hucknall it has been there for at least 10 years. The new Wetherspoons pub in Stapleford opens on the 7th of Feb.
  18. The building at the junction of Albert street and Saint Peters church side, as shown on the map posted by Cliff ton, is marked on an 1899 map as a municipal office. I am not sure if that is the building that is mentioned in the first post.
  19. The building that nnsc has taken a photo of was an office development that was never finished, I bet it would be cheaper to demolish it and start again, than to spend money on it getting it finished.
  20. I thought we had discussed this before, as I thought I had added a reply. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2378&st=0&p=62469&hl=+dave%20+salter&fromsearch=1entry62469
  21. I think it is where the university playing fields are, they are a bit further down the river than sat bains, it is called Grove Farm now, as that was the original name of the farm, Pelican used to play there matches there as well. Apparently the prince of Wales bought the farm in order to entertain his lady friends. They wouldn't bother trying to hide such behaviour nowadays.
  22. I read this article today, and by a coincedence my wife had bought the book for an old friend. On looking through the book I noticed that there was a website devoted to old photos from all over the country,it is worth a look at.http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Destruction-city-s-past-revealed-photographs/story-14123363-detail/story.html http://www.historypin.com/
  23. Behind the sandstone wall, that is pictured was a dye works, I think the sign is still up on one of the adjacent buildings. It only closed about 4 or 5 years ago.
  24. There is an article about the river leen and the Daybrook is mentioned as a tribuatary of the leen, it flows from Arnold and enters the leen near Vernon road. I wonder if that is why there was some dye works and a large laundry in that part of old basford, built in order to use the supply of water, the daybrook must have been a lot wider than it is now and probably farrands mill was located there for the same reason.