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  2. Southwell Workhouse

    in General Chat about Nottingham

    Posted

    I went in the late 60s/early 70s when it was a place for people in desperate situations to stay. A refuge for some. It was a last resort place and we would leave with a very sad feeling. Thankfully the person we visited got assistance in getting a home. I haven't and never will forget the place, I visited a couple of times. The name at the time was Greet House or something similar. Once you have visited a place like that, it really makes you appreciate what you have, no matter how meagre, it is a home.

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  4. Beast from the East

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Thanks catfan. Will bear  that one in mind for next time we visit, which will be quite soon. It is so bitterly cold that we decided to pop across the road about 70yds to the chippy cafe called 'The Lion and Herring' instead of driving to a Restaurant. Much to cold to venture to far tonight. All nice and snug in our room now. Purr Purr.:)

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  5. Beast from the East

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    We have been visiting relations at  Gt Yarmouth  today and just parked up at our guest house on Trafalgar Road, just off the main drag. Very nice little Guest house and reasonable price. Free WIFI and parking pass, for outside the front door. comfortable quiet room and delicious 'Full English' all for £44 double room. Anyway, back to the weather. The wind is strong and gusty, as was the journey here today. It is bitterly cold and just a few minutes out in the wind and 'it's enough to freeze your frock off'...as mi mam would say! Definitely the coldest I have felt this winter,  short bursts of snow but not settled...yet. Hope not, travelling home again tomorrow.

    I have just checked the Falcon site and you seem to have worse weather than us (at the moment). The poor Falcon is laying on a blanket of snow, wonder if there is an egg under there?:) 

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  7. Beast from the East

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    It has been a busy few days and I  haven't been my usual organised self (First fib of the day):biggrin:. Normally we would check the weather before making any long distance driving plans, but I dint do it this time!!! 

     

    Just spotted  CliffTons weather forecast warning post and realise we have made a big  mistake. At 6.30am tomorrow, in W-ton we pick no1 son and partner up to take to Nottm for the night, they love our City and  have planned to spend her birthday there, hoping for a day on Wollaton Park etc. They paid an extra £10 and for that they can get into their city centre hotel at 9am. 

     

    After dropping them off at Nottm, we are driving on to Gt Yarmouth to visit relations, our hotel room booked as well. Sunday midday we will do all that travelling in reverse. If only we had checked the weather . I am not the best traveller, seen so many dangerous incidents over the years and now it looks like we will be travelling in really bad weather conditions as well. Hopefully the bad conditions will put a lot of unnecessary drivers off the roads. 

     

    Still......Sometimes the forecasters get it wrong.......Please.:)

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  9. Cigarette cards

    in General Hobbies and Interest Chat

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    Just found your cards Chulla. Another of my favourites amongst them. Primroses. You have to be alert to spot them sometimes, as they grow so low to the ground. I recognise the colour of them now from quite a distance away, as I scour the hedges on our almost daily drives in the remote lanes around West Mids. The wild ones have a distinct creamy lemon colour as do the Cowslips. We some times only see odd ones and then in just a short distance down the lane there can be banks laden with them. They are all just beginning to show themselves around here. Thank you  for the pics miduck.

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  10. Any more bodgers here?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Don't tell anyone, but I am a bit of a bodger annawl. When I was a bit fitter than I am now, I used to come to Nottm, stay at Mams (after pop had gone to the Great Grey Goose in the sky) and do her decorating. Nice low ceilings not like our 9ft ones. Anyway, where the pipe went up through the ceiling there was a gaping space all the way around it sooooooo, to fill the gap I shoved a bit of screwed up newspaper in gently and stuck a park drive packet over the lot. After a few splodges of paint it looked very good. No one knew, but I often wonder what the people who bought the house at a later time must have thought of the decorater. :rolleyes:

    If anyone needs a cheap decorator, my rates are low.:rotfl:

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  11. More Gedling History

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    Yes cliffTon Miduck I got it in the end. Sorry, I got confused. I know that little area quite well, I think I was having a senior blonde moment. I had a friend who lived in one of the houses on the left, just out of the photo, going down towards the cricket field, Burton Road and we played together often, called at her house many times, I just couldn't get my bearings. I got the bit about Shearing hill being below and behind the fence but for some reason I couldn't link the two pics. Anyway thanks for your patience and I'll shurrup naah.:biggrin:

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  12. More Gedling History

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    It threw me for a while as well. I remember as we drove to the top of Shearings Hill the cottage was more or less opposite on the bend. It is clearer on the photo of the modernised cottage. I guessed the old cottage picture must have been taken from a different angle.

     

    Is the modernised cottage picture taken looking down Shearings Hill and the Old cottage one taken looking the other way up past the old post office towards the Memorial Hall. Just a Thought.?

    Just take no notice of me????

     

     

  13. Hey - new to the forum

    in ++ Oo R Ya'? ++

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    Thanks David. I have just looked through the info on the link you gave me and you have saved me, possibly hours of trying to find the connection. Widdowson and Comery certainly were popular names in the 1800s. From the looks of it, I probably pass a distant relative every few minutes walking around Carlton. lol.

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  14. Hey - new to the forum

    in ++ Oo R Ya'? ++

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    50 minutes ago, DAVIDW said:

    There's a birth in 1920 for a George A. Holmes in Basford district with mothers maiden name of Widdowson. A name that often crops up on here . (Carni !)

    Hello David, I have been looking through my tree and tho I know the Widdowson connection is there somewhere I can't find it, but I will keep looking. I'm afraid my tree is very amateurish and not very organised. I too have found the birth of George A Holmes 1920, mother Widdowson but can't help with any more information. I will try to find the connection with my clan if possible. Sorry I'm not much help.

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  16. Happy Mothers Day

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    Yes benj, I bet the location of the river was not priority to you and your beloved.:biggrin:

     

    If it was as close to the river as that, I could be wrong about the George Hotel which I would say is about the distance of the Bell Inn and the Council House Lions. Nottm. Yards more than feet. Hey benj. Who cares when you are in love?:rolleyes:

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  18. Happy Mothers Day

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    Benj, I'll make a guess that it was 17th century George Hotel that you stayed in, right on the main street a few yards from the bridge over the Severn. Saying that, there are more hotels dotted around that you don't notice so much. The George is now a Witherspoons, and we have eaten in there a few times. Always very busy and I would imagine today would be very difficult to get a table. I expect we will have to queue down the road for our fish and chips as well today. Umbrellas at the ready.:biggrin:

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  19. Cigarette cards

    in General Hobbies and Interest Chat

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    If I have the correct information it appears there are more than 25000 types of known Orchids in the world, and more discovered each year.

     

    I know they are fascinating flowers and I once did a course on Sugar Craft choosing the Orchid as the flower I would model my creations on.  I have to say I was very proud of my efforts as they turned out to be very realistic. Good enough to eat, Truly, as I would secretly eat the bits that dropped off, whilst modelling. :biggrin:

     

    That said. Though the  Orchids are quite exotic to look at, the periwinkle  is the flower that  appeals to me the most. Common or Garden variety, I just love any naturally blue flowers, though you can get different colours for the garden, we have never grown any. Not quite a bright a blue as the cornflower but still as thrilling to spot them whilst out walking. Great cards again Chulla. 

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  20. Happy Mothers Day

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    Took my lovely mam some flowers yesterday, I wish I could have given her a hug as well.

     

    Today, I will be spoilt rotten and I wont struggle one bit. :) I am being treated to a trip to Bewdley. A lovely historic town by the River Severn, where I will have fish, chips and mushy peas, outside by the river if the weather permits, if not, it will be in the car in a car park. A little walk around the streets and shops, from there we will pile back into the car and head up or down river (not sure which)? to Bridgnorth (another Historic Town) where we will partake in icecream from Knickerbockers. Today I will go for it and have nuts AND a choccy flake. There was a time when I would have a double cornet but can't manage that much any more.  Granddaughter, Daughter and little old me. Chris has got his work cut out today.:)

     

    Happy Mothers Day everyone. :)

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  22. Cigarette cards

    in General Hobbies and Interest Chat

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    When we first moved into this house in the 80s the bottom of the garden had gone to weed and entwined among the weeds was what I thought was a beautiful wild flower. Purple bell shaped with a yellow middle, rambling along in between  anything it could attach to, anyway I was soon put right. Ooh you want to get rid of that weed, it's Deadly Nightshade, kill you that will, said anyone who saw it. I pulled it up, and every so many years it would appear again up the one corner. I persevered and eventually I won. It disappeared for good. Never gave it another thought until I saw the cigarette card, didn't even realise there were two Nightshades. After all these years I didn't know  which one was in my garden. I have today learnt that Deadly Nightshade grows individual flowers whilst the Woody Nightshade  grows in clusters. Now I know my plant was the Woody Nightshade.http://vialiigardenservices.co.uk/deadly-v-woody-nightshade/

     

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  23. Things you never used to see.

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Department stores, almost void of assistants, the big search to find one for help. Only to find shop assistants who have no idea what stock they sell if it's not in their little area. Take you to where they think it could be, only to say when you have walked one end of the floor to the other, sorry,  if we sold it, it would be here? We could have told them that, because we would look before we ask! :rolleyes:

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