Ashley

yes the were working on the bridge for some time, but think the main span was removed in one section by cranes during the saturday night/sunday morning, the ring road was closed off around the area for most of that weekend

This is the building (post no.16) there used to be alot more of it, I remember it being pulled down but no idea when, Maybe I am assuming too much? only the fact it is on Station Street led me to that assumption maybe it always was just a parcels office/loading? however on cliff ton's map it is the only builwith a frontage on station street, conversly though vic station and the GNR one stood well back from the roads, somewhere, maybe picture the past there is a photo of mk2 station built right up to the pavement, whatever theres still an MR over the door and it appears a great health centre, s

I once drove over that bridge in a ford fiesta! had a hell of a job turning round to get back down the "road" the demo men had made up to it, I would have said demolished earlier than 1985?

I recall it being a gas lamp and don't think it was ever updated to electric, ditto the station lamps with their chain on/off "switch" as well, One day a new lad Chris and his younger sister Francis started at Claremont Primary, their father was the new staion master having moved there from Alford (Lincs) There was also a lady porter which us kids thought strange and a male one known to us as "grumpy" have seen both those release pidgeons from baskets on the platform. All this was around 1956, I have never found any referennce to the derailoment of several carriages one night, proper serious j

Good News! The for years empty building on Station Street (the one with the "MR" over the door which I believe was the entrance to the second Midland Station has re-opened! Howver before you railway history buffs get too excited as an out of hours NHS Medical Centre called "Platform One" with free parking no less replacing the one on Derby Road that was the former RAC/AA? Hq. No doubt the building already had some preservation order on it? but it's good to see it being put to use again. I had occasion to visit yesterday, so you can trainspot from the doctors! As for the medical care there

Re number of pit workers, no idea! but in 1939 555,337 worked for the railways, they had 20,612 locos inc 35 diesels, carried 254,000,000 tons of freight, 1,158,318,000 passengers in that year, owned 49,774 houses, and 49,000 road vehicles

Had my wedding reception at Station Hotel but best pubs for me in later years were The Bedstead and Plough & Harrow, some great bands played the latter inc Judas Priest who went on to be multi millionare rock stars

Yes that's the frontage, it goes back to a road behind and for many years the bit seen has been occupied by Giacomo motor engineers with several other firms in smaller sections of the buildings

Not sure if mentioned before (or if of interest) but the whole original factory complex on London Road is due to be demolished to make way for a new main fire station

Aren't NCT running a double decker sprayed in the West Bridgford colours at the moment? saw one thus a week or so ago, looked good, went on one of my rare bus rides Radcliffe to Friar Lane last saturday the seats were plastic or leatherette covered and with Lewis Hamilton up front every corner and bend I slid across such, a real struggle not to slide off, then it was the no.35 to Bulwell via Broxtowe , a delightful trip

Re your request for more info Compo, sorry hadn't been back on this topic till now but Christmas Eve 1963 was when I met my first serious girlfriend and although I was happily married for 42 years after (to someone else) still thought alot of her and wondered how things might have turned out had I not had a bike crash (I was on pillion) the night before I was due to meet up again with her after we'd split up for awhile,

used to love the air bombs, about the loudest there was at the time, as late as 2004 we were bombing an old battle axe who lived below my son's flat

Saw something the other day on the back of a NCT bus going to Bulwell that summed up what is wrong with trams and why they were scrapped in the 1930's. It read "GET ON A BUS AND GO ANYWHERE" said bus had plenty of passengers on unlike the tram I saw at basford crossings which had 7 on it

a good few streets in New Basford named after people/events, yet to find a Caine Street though!

Re the pink shop it was indeed a motorcycle dealers,am told in earlier years it was part of a cinema the entrance to such was was the "shop" next to the bank on Arkwright Street which in the later 1970's or early 80's was a clothing sales shop you took your used stuff there, left it for a few weeks , if it sold you got the money less a reasonable fee, if not you got it back, my wife got some vey expensive when new boots and dresses there cheap

Think they were on their way to Syria to carpet bomb IS as part of the coalition, Germany is sending The Afrika Korp in with Panzers plus V1 and V2's, Japan is busy building up their one way Zero's fleet, France is drawing up it's collaboration terms whilst Italy hasn't decided anything yet

Recall going swimming in the trent with my dad diving off the landing stages of the boat clubs, normally a placid type he got quite irate with some jobsworth bloke from one of said clubs who said we could not use their platform threatening to throw him in the river! However justice of a sort was done when I stood on what I assume was a broken glass in the water slashing my foot to the extent that according to dad it needed stitching, however as at the time I had a morbid fear of such having had a finger stitched without any anesthetic (no doctor on duty, held down by one nurse while another

Only ever heard that Toc H saying once, but it stuck in my head, was in an episode of "Danger UXB" that series was of interest to me as my uncle then aged 19 was in a BDS during the London blitz.

Theres an old boy in Radcliffe on Trent got one, only thing I know about him is he's in the church choir opposite the manvers arms,

must have had the special with iron filings and gunpowder, often given to drunks who shout and call all the staff Abdul, "We no want that man in here again, give him burning bum curry!"

I also believe it can be "inherited" ie it runs in families, it's as if something is "missing" in the brain/makeup of a person and is passed on,once they start drinking as a teenager they then become hooked

That electronics shop was Eddy's, used to sell lots of ex WD stuff, think later it went up market a few doors above Horace Rogers Motorbikes selling Tv's Video's etc, can't recall it's name, NSE? should know it as wife worked there for a while

DaveN, yes you are quite right, only went in a few times pre birthdays and christmas to choose presents, knew Staddons had a store "the one with the clock that tells you the time" (their advertising slogo) up radford rd.

One store (none Woolies) that did have the shuttle system stood on the corner of Radford Rd/Gregory Boulevard not sure of it's name maybe Staddons? (ethnic food store there now)

re [post 28, The pushers should be making a fortune in Gaza then?