Rob.L

Amazing just how much that area has changed in such a short time. I've also noticed that when I'm walking the dog round there, bricks and hardcore are slowly starting to emerge from the made-up banking as it weathers.

Went to the Baseball ground in, I think, 1979, for a Forest/Derby match soon after Denis Thatcher's company had relaid the pitch. There was that much sand on it, all the Forest fans were singing "We do like to be beside the seaside". That was the game that one particular Forest "fan", Paul Scarrott, got thrown out of the ground three times for hooliganism.

Looks safe enough from this video.

On the subject of walking the lines, I noticed a still-intact bridge over the Trent between Torksey and North Leverton when idly looking at Google maps the other day. http://goo.gl/maps/d7pNc Anyone been there?

Most memorable game might not have been the best, but 22nd April 1978 away at Coventry. Forest needed one point to secure the title, and got it with a 0-0 draw, after Shilts made a fantastic point-blank save. After joining the celebrations on the pitch, me and my mates ran back to my car, which was parked in a nearby pub car park and about half an hour later, we were in the Man O Trent for the first of many celebratory pints of Home Ales. Had one there, then into town for the rest (and before anyone asks, I left the car parked-up overnight!). And then there were the European Cup matches.

I'd guess that will be Beastmarket Hill, as there was a friary on the site between what is now Friar Lane and St James's Street.

The full paragraph in Thoroton: It appears that our Saxon ancestors distinguished the places of burial of those slain in battle from the ordinary ones by raising over their bodies clods and turves of earth, these places are visible in many counties in England, and are now called Burrows and by some Barrows. About a mile from Nottingham, at a place called Nottingham-hill, are some lines of fortification, between which are three or four of these fort of eminences, which are now called Burrows, in one of which have been found great quantities of human bones.

That quote is, I think, from Thoroton so will relate to Nottingham. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76811

#10 Yes, it was Wendy's. Friend of ours had a little bric-a-brac shop in Netherfield for a while and used to go to Wendy's to buy stock, which he then sold on for a small profit. His main selling line were children's Cozy Coupe cars.

Used to go to a weekly auction in a little church hall near Trowell that was run by the people who ran the waste disposal sites. It was full of the stuff that people throw out - anything from vacuum cleaners to kids toys, furniture and TV sets to watches and jewellery. At one auction, I got a large pile of Star Trek magazines for a quid. Put them on eBay and sold them for £70. What amazed me, though, was that people would throw away perfectly serviceable items rather than get them fixed. Dyson cleaners for example. These always went for decent money at auction (£20+) because they can be fi

The fridge in most trailer caravans are three-way, using 12v when on the road (powered from the car alternator), and switching to either mains electricity (if available) or mains power.

#5 Originally, Magic Roundabout was going to be the a-side, until the BBC said "No, we're not playing it". I reckon most people bought it for MR anyway. "Thanks for sticking up for me, said Florence"

"You don't own me" was a Status Quo song from 1977, which ties in with one other bit of graffiti, but the swastika and the way the "S" has been formed would have been an unlikely addition for any Quo fan I knew at the time. http://www.statusquo.co.uk/records/lyrics/youdontownme.htm

That workhouse seems to have been on Stoke Lane. Streetview shows a new building where that would have been. Perhaps if anyone has access to old pics of the area, there may be one of the original? http://www.instantstreetview.com/2p9mi5z3e8as3z2sfzryz2u Although this is interesting... http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=g3BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=gedling+workhouse&source=bl&ots=TXGS9Nzjrk&sig=2KTEhTUBsziXv-qwi7mkD_-2_yQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Lr3dUuKzAsixhAfI64HoDg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=gedling%20workhouse&f=false

Nope, definitely at the junction with Sandfield / top entrance to Arnot Hill Park. (I should know, I walk past the road signs every day!) http://www.instantstreetview.com/2pa5uaz3e6v1gz2m5znuz2u

Oh, and at the risk of sounding pedantic, the road changes from Thackeray's Lane to Arnot Hill Road at the junction with Sandfield Road. So to be accurate, the bridge is actually on Thackeray's - by about twenty feet.

#75 Cliff, I'd say that would be the right place, looking at the height of the embankment and the proximity of the houses (was discussing how small their gardens are at that end of Sandfield Road only this morning!)

Used to amuse me by confusing people when I told them it only took me 30 minutes to get from New York to Boston by bicycle. Until I showed them a map of Lincolnshire.

That bridge is on Thackeray's Lane, just before the junction with Sandfield Road. It doesn't date as far back as when the railway was working. There's certainly not enough clearance under it for a train!

The bit of embankment left from the NSR in Cliff's pic as it is now... To the right of this, there is a padlocked gate leading to woodland which is full of snowdrops. Further along, towards Aylesham Avenue, some of the original fencing is still there...

No wonder all it could say was "flobadob"!

I bet Ben was as well. But what about Little Weed???

And that is taken from almost exactly the same position as this one...

Ashley, Don't think the residents of the houses built where the line and embankments used to be would agree!

fch, All the name changes cost the company a small fortune - GPO > Post Office Telephones > British Telecom > BT in the space of a few years. And then add in the many logo changes... It all resulted in a lot of dumping/pulping of literature and stationery, repainting of vans, new signs on buildings, and so on. Still, I only care that there will be enough left in the coffers to start paying me my pension when I retire in a few months time, after 41 years!