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And is clearly viewable on Google Earth.

To cover the extra cost of the wages of the people who are working on New Year's Eve night to keep you fed and watered?

If it's number 21, can they see if my Great Grandad left anything in the loft from when he and his family (including Grandad) lived there in the 1880s?

Not according to their draft Statement of Accounts for 2012/13. They have a £28m surplus - before the next set of government cuts push them into the red. http://open.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/comm/download3.asp?dltype=inline&filename=57394/Draft_Statement_of_Accounts_3.pdf

I'm sure I remember there being one of those signs on Mapperley Top, somewhere around where the (then) 31 terminus was.

You can't beat a firm pear.

Depends on what you mean by quick. When I'm cooking for myself, my preferred meal is grilled bacon, fried eggs, baked beans, all on toast (butter, not some extract of petroleum) Less than ten minutes from start to plate.

If you've got some spare time, a decent printer and paper, you can now build your own Vulcan. http://www.vulcantothesky.org/news/528/82/FREE-Christmas-Gift.html

When I worked for a Plant Hire firm in Carlton in the early 70s, the gaffer took us all to the pub and our bonus was paid in liquid refreshment. These days, my company contributes a tenner per head to any Christmas meals. But as I don't socialise with the people I work with for logistical reasons (one is in Ayr, Scotland, another in Inverness, and a third in Tunbridge Wells, Kent), that goes unspent. Funniest story I heard was when my father in law was given a turkey when he worked at Loach's. Neither he nor his wife had any idea what to do with it (they'd come here from Poland, so only cook

I know we're digressing from the original purpose of the thread, but there is a great deal of information on the battle here - http://www.battlefieldstrust.com/resource-centre/warsoftheroses/battleview.asp?BattleFieldId=42 Looking at the maps, the battle seems to have been predominately south-west of East Stoke. What amazes me is to see the sheer scale of losses in a battle which only lasted about three hours!

Stoke Hall still exists. If you find East Stoke on the map then follow School Lane towards the Trent, it's there on the right.

And if you sit outside the Bromley Arms in Fiskerton (nice pint there), you can see the Bloody Gutter across the river. So called because it ran red with the blood of Yorkist soldiers.

When I bought my first VCR in the early 1980s, it cost me over £400, which equates to about £1450 in today's money.

Do you want a cherry and a little cocktail umbrella with it as well?

Cliff, No, that battle was a bit further along, and on the other side of, the river at East Stoke.

Ah, so it must be this one then: https://www.facebook.com/thewillowbrook Hope it all works out under the new owners.

This Facebook page? https://www.facebook.com/WillowbrookClub

Chris, Like the Castle Wharf development. Built in the 1990s, and the Evening Post, Nat West, and BT moved in among big promises about regenerating the area. Now the leases have ended, the Ev Post has already gone and part of their building is now Land Registry, and BT are due to move out in the next year or so. (Dunno what Nat West are planning) Leaving another lot of vacant office space that nobody wants.

It would be fairly easy to cut Collin Street off from through traffic by making Canal Street two-way again and reconfiguring the road layout around the bottom of Maid Marion Way. And seeing as Broadmarsh car park is mostly empty those days as people can't afford to park there, the council could cut their losses and close it.

The whole area between Broadmarsh and the station need sorting. Either demolish the lot (particularly the awful 60s/70s buildings) or spend a decent amount tarting it up. What impression do visitors to Nottm get when they come by train when the first they see are grubby, run-down, depressing and empty buildings?

Pixie, does Margaret C still work there?

As Lizzie says, pubs are making way for care homes, like the one my father in law was in for a while which was on the site of the Maid Marian on Coppice Road in Arnold. They're far more profitable than pubs. Reason he's not there now is he refused to pay when they hiked his fees up to £2,500 a month!

Yes! Playland. That's the one, ta!

There was another arcade on either Kent Street or Rick Street (between Huntingdon St and Parliament St) that I remember visiting to play pinball in the late 1960s on the one and only time I bunked off school. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a Sun Valley, but can't for the life of me remember what it was called. Any ideas?

B&D Electric drill bought in 1978/9 from Scan in Vic Centre, still going strong. Kamasa half-inch socket set I bought in about 1980, still intact and in regular use (long after other more expensive sets have bit the dust. Numerous tools, including Whitworth and AF spanners, that I've inherited from various people. What I do regret is not taking the cobblers last which had been in my dad's shed. That must have been at least 100 years old and still useable, but I couldn't see any use for it myself so gave it away.