Ashley

I thought you'd listen to my reason but now I see, you don't hear a thing,try to make you see, how it's got to be, yes it's all, all or nothiny yeah yeah, all or nothing all or nothing, for me, I never did get to take you home

That Prudential Insurance building mentioned by Bilbraborn fascinated me as a kid, or rather what was (1) in one of the windows and (2) on the wall did , both facing the no.36 bus stop on Queens St, 1) For years there was a poster with a coloured image guess a painted illustration of a house on fire, flames licking out the windows, a fire engine outside plus firemen with hoses etc and as I recall a worried rescued family looking on! and of course some blurb re fire insurance, Wasn't that I was a would be arsonist or anything! just had never seen a fire at that time, was about aged 5 when

"Trouble with used cars in them days, the first owners used to drive the hell out of them" What makes you think they don't now? worse if anything! faster faster faster!

Yes, sadly I thought it was more than one, I got it a bit wrong , had thought wrongly tyre still inflated and heat had increased pressure in tyre. Re the company they took over, pretty sure it was Brough Engineering which used to be on Vernon Rd which had either produced the famous motorcycles or developed from that company whose earlier premises were on Haydn Road I say that as in early 1970's worked at the Vernon Road factory (not for them) and saw (and sat on) the prototype Brough Gold (or Golden?) Dream, as I recall this bike never went into production as WW2 came along, but was so

always thought Dygor Gaylord sounded like a gay wrestler? remember the accident, was it just one killed? seem to recall he/they were trying to remove a ring on a massive digger wheel with high pressure inflated tyre by heating it with oxy-acetylene? And can anyone recall what famous known throughout the world Nottingham company they took over? (there used to be a clue in their office reception)

Can't remember that song, b b but the who did one s,s,s,s,similar lol

"Crap Cars of the 70's".? Most of mine!

"It was on that visit of Chief Constable Athelstone Popkess to Germany that lead to him formulating Nottinghams war defences" He put light bulbs in the caves under the castle?

Told this before somewhere on here but heard a Mr Skill talking re his relation who started the firm, if you remember there was a big yard at the back of the shops with fuel pumps painted I think red and yellow? Any way his story went thus,The original Mr Skill sold fish, not sure if he had a shop or sold from his small lorry that he took to collect fish from the trains at Victoria Station, On his way to Derby where he sold such around the Beeston/Long Eaton area he'd see people WALKING to work at Chilwell Depot and British Celanese Spondon, he'd gave them a lift, and they'd give him a tip

neither do the people of Hyson Green, Beeston or Clifton! (in my opinion)

if local to you I wouldn't go spreading that around re the tracks/tunnel still there, next thing you'll know you'll have 4 years of road closures and streets ripped up while they route a tram line through it!

Not former GCR but know, (knew not seen him for years since moving house) someone who works on the railways as some sort of emeg fitter, everything from signals out to lifts not working at stations and diesel loco faults, his father was on the railways as a driver, from what I gather spent whole working life as such going back and forth up and down the former MR Lenton Junction to Mansfield Line moving coal one way and empties the other between pits gas works and sidings, told what with lay up's in sidings etc to allow passenger traffic etc right of way a daily shift would allow just one tr

it wasn't wider, you were smaller, have had similar experiences myself!

yes used to cycle from basford to near meadow lane for 7.30am clock in aged 16, later went on 125 bsa bantam, the latter never let me down, faster by 36 trolley bus though!

What makes me laugh about soaps esp eastenders is someone only has to mention a party and instantly a disco is on with dj plus decorations lights etc, where do they store all this? likewise when a pub is for sale £250,000 is suddenly available ( 2 sources) def not from a bank? say that as when we sold the house it was like the Spanish Inquisition as to where the money had come from, ditto when we drew some out to buy another home

Often wondered why Cream did a song titled such? surely not to do with the later medical term! lol

Seem to recall seeing a picture somewhere that showed part of the rathole as a cut and cover, the bit leading to under the GNR mainline

Thurland Street was actually a cutting (excavation) that was "fitted with a roof" type of thing only a few feet below the the road from which it got it's name, there was an open cutting south of Upper Parliament Street before the lines entered the "tunnel", Not sure if true but was told by a former PW worker that post ww11 a fellow worker was hit by a train and rushed to the general where he survived minus a leg, said leg was later found in the tunnel and if true is still buried under the ballast there!

re the outhouse, we had one, it was a toilet

think you mean caravans, most mobile homes too big to be on the road, (even mine) in any case it wasn't me, I have an alibi !

There's a few bars (can't really call them pubs?) I wouldn't miss around the market square, esp if armed with a cruise missile! Was there last night at around 7pm, already there was a police car, riot and dog vans plus an ambulance on standby, these did not seem to deter the swarms of men, by no means all teenagers lurching from one bar to another with their war cries, nor did it put off 4 others who despite being hardly unable to stand were taking part in 2 separate supporting boxing bouts before the later main event, a mass brawl about 11.20 on Friar Lane. Luckily by then I was on my bus

"opposite Marks and Sparks was a young chap imitating Jet Harris with an upturned heavy duty plastic bucket and sticks. " If I'd have known I'd have brought my bass and done a Tony Meehan impression! (sorry, TGC couldn't resist it)

"I cannot add this to the 'Steam' thread so I have started this for the non-steam era" Blasphemy! lol

Well that map does indeed show the Church St crossing, along with the Nottingham Rd and Lincoln Street ones, yes the latter crossing was "aimed" at that street, unlike today's arrangement which is more 90 degrees towards David Lane, No idea why the MR line to the pits (now part of the tramp line to former pit site) is not shown, but the branch to Bennerley Junction is, The gas works far as I know were there before the Vernon Rd new route from Nottm Rd junction to Valley Rd, I recall a gasometer in the land that was later a Bob Churchill,s car breakers later still a John Fox VW sales depot (n

So the pub was built sometime between 1876 and 1913? 1875 being the year The GNR opened the Colwick to Pinxton route and 1876 when the first passenger trains ran on it, would hardly have had a pub called The Station Hotel before there was a station? When the "bypass" was built still not sure, ditto the alteration of the original route (from the Nottingham Rd junction to the top of church st bridge) to it's present alignment where it meets Western Blvd/Valley Rd. I do know Church St bridge was built post 1876 (the girders of it state "Made in Bradford" with that date) so maybe the bypass