catfan

He'll know !

I used to deliver sheets of glass there a few years ago for their building maintenance dept. Never saw the inmates & the security would put Fort Knox to shame ! Awful atmosphere all over the place.

Ben will tell us how much it cost in Marsdens !

A Flat Front Daimler Oz, drove that one many times, quite nice to drive in fact !

Only a couple at Bulwell I know of but the non strikers refused to join the union but would not cross a picket line either !

Allow me Albert.

The 1968 bus strike was over a claim of £1 per week pay rise ! Nottm City Council refused to pay so the bus crews had a strike every Saturday. Eventually NCC gave in to the bus crews demands after city shop keepers offered to pay the pittance of a rise themselves ! I worked with many crews who took part in the strike.

My Virgin Mobile went up to £6 per month from £5m a 20% increase. BB & LL with free LL calls anytime now £57 pm to £60 pm. If this carries on I will have to send Mrs C out to work.

With speeds like this it will be hard to beat. Don't have a BT phone line so could be a problem. What gets my goat is the above rate of inflation rise every year. Nothing to do with Branson he sold VM to the Americans years ago. I may get on the phone & threaten to leave & see what happens, with my luck they will just say cheerio !

Just received email from Virgin Media my landline & broadband increasing by £3 a month. Every year like clockwork it increases. Thing is the BB is so good. Would be impossible to better.

I owned a HA Viva Ian, a real pile of junk. I swapped my VX490, an even bigger pile of junk which i unloaded on to my brother.!

I tried to get Mrs C to play that one too !

Margie I used to organise a competition with my kids when they were young. Who could keep quiet without making a sound the longest !

My BIL worked for years at Northern Dairies on Triumph Road & he swore blind stera was the best milk in the world & wouldn't thank you for anything else. Awful stuff.

Here you go Margie. http://www.1900s.org.uk/1940s50s-milk-bottles.htm