Ashley
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What isn't common knowledge is a lot of these transport cafes did deals with drivers swopping the odd gallon of sump oil for a meal hence "greasy" part of their title. Obviously I can't name these but with time you could tell by taste the oil used in the fry ups, Duckhams had a nice aroma, esp their 20-40 multigrade only surpassed by Castrol R often found at certain bikers caffs, However Monday was a day to avoid most as that seemed to be the day most choose to gunk their frying pans etc on that day which tended to leave an after taste. Does anyone recall the Chinese transport cafe on the A52? I remember it getting robbed one weekend, the thieves stealing all their cooking pans, they had to lay the staff off for a day as they had no wok
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I seriously hate that man, 69 now but would still like to harm him
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yes the stomach churning transvestite/crossdresser is a real sicko, but I also hate with a vengence that woman who can't believe she's gone to some poxy hotel in the countryside "keep up colin"
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Behind that plastic of star garage were/are 2 large glass windows,the one on the left used to have cars for sale in it, outside those windows were 2 or 3 petrol pumps with long "arms" that swung out over the pavement, my mother told of a tale where she went to use the phone box in the blackout and fog during ww2 on opposite side of Nottingham Rd and finished up trying to make the call from one of the petrol pumps! I always took that story with a pinch of salt but since they have been turning the street lights off after midnight in Ratcliffe can well believe it I think originally it was called Roper's Garage, can recall old man Roper in 1960's and his son who took it over later
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Yes, after the nearby Teesdale Rd, on the corner of which for sometime there was a different car sales showroom in I think a former co-op, across the lights of Haydn Rd there was a sort of sports car garage that also dealt in traiils and scrambler motorcycles they were originally in an old building I think a bakery? off possibly Palm Street
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Best not mention the business that sold me it or it's location but once bought a reliant with 6 months or whatever tax and mot, and was then told when they ran out to change the number plates on the car to those of a second log book I was given and re test with those (the real reg) on! Seemed to regard it as normal sales pitch!
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Had a great aunt who lived next door to us, used to say to me a "watched kettle never boils" totally untrue, I tested it one day after so long it did boil and continued to do so till the bottom of it burnt out and caused the electric cooker to blow up.
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Yes suds had it's own smell, not unpleasant, Somebody mentioned Smith Dennis? My dad worked there for years, remember him starting there, then getting promoted to the inspection staff, in the school holidays I used to cycle there at dinnertimes and have my dinner in the works canteen, then in 1974 he took ill,something he never did, had about 2 weeks off, got a final sick note to restart on the monday,but dropped dead with heart attack the day before, on the tuesday a letter came promoting him to head inspector for the whole works, typical!
The other Smith,s, Sydney? at end of rosetta rd/egypt rd was credited with the inventention of the bourden tube pressure gauge
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It is funny how we (or rather I) assume things isn't it? having first seen and been told about the tram "power station" over 60 years ago I had always assumed till today that or rather the yard behind it was the tram depot? In fact when I saw that map I thought "they've got that wrong" but of course the opposite is true, Scanning what's left of my memory I recall a factory/warehouse where the new housing is today, there were several similar 3? storey buildings thus in that area, think all to do with the dying/bleaching industry and know at least one remains converted to flats.
Another thing I noticed on the map that I had never seen before in real life/photos or on maps was the tram line running down Isandula Road!I had seen on maps the maze of railway tracks inside the gas works but until today not noticed the wagon turntables seen as a circle on the tracks plus "a bypass" around such? I recall seeing little shunting engines but cannot recall whether steam or diesel or even fireless steam ones!
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It was all to do with the Zulu Wars, Chelmsford was I think the overall commanding officer, Chard was the officer in charge at Rorkes Drift, Isandula was the basford version of the name for some big battle, Durnford was another officer plus theres other connections ie Zulu Road
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I have always known this to be the generating station next door to the police station https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.97781,-1.173283,3a,75y,270h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sPG5KubrRAe0uF4N086rYGw!2e0!6m1!1e1 and this is the yard behind it off RADFORD ROADhttps://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.978181,-1.174225,3a,75y,90h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sSga2AbqgaJHiM5rX40uidA!2e0
No idea re Chelmsford Rd/Street change, maybe just a print error? assume you know the history of the stret name (Chelmsford) -
Yes I remember the Isandula Road site well but in trolley bus days, the generating room is still there though now I think some double glazing works, In the 1950's on hot days they had the doors open and you could see the generators in use these I assume were steam powered? they were very noisy and a little scary with these shaft spinning at high speed etc, behind that building there was a large yard where I assume horse drawn trams and their horses were stabled prior to electrifed ones? I never saw any trolley buses there and there was no remains of tram lines etc, maybe at that time it fed the national grid? there are still some massive transformers in the yard but whether there in the 1950's I don't recall, The building itself was next door to the old police station, a similar pairing of such happened at the corner of Mansfield Rd/Gregory Boulevard and I think at side of Huntingdon street Bus Station, though those "power stations" were alot bigger
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I'm only guesing here, but wonder if the original tram tracks finished at as said Basford Gas Works but also at the site of Basford Vernon Station? It has been said before the coming of the trams killed off certain railway stations (the NSR esp) But I am wondering if in fact the opposite was true? The trams providing a local like from the stations to area's of Nottingham for work, I say that as most tram routes ran close to existing railway stations
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I also think the railway was the reason for the original tram turn around (terminus?)at Northern Bridge?
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Apoligies, I'LL STICK TO RAILWAYS
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Yes Brian quite correct though later at time of the big miners strike it was amended to "vote coal" then the word coal was crossed out! Peck did make it on to the council but as a "Green Party" member, I think with the downing of the berlin wall plus break up of the USSR it finally dawned on him he wasn't going to make it as a commie. I'm told though never seen it in writing the station was originally called Dob Park as it was in the land owned by Dob Hall but that name didn't last long, however I still hear older people talking of "Dobby (or Dobbie) Bridge" so maybe some truth in it?
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We (Basford Trainspotters) always knew the bridge as Northern Bridge as it was on The Great Northern Route which was in fact a "main line" with 216 trains a day using it every 24 hours in 1900, 25 years after it's building, over 24 hours that's one every 6 mins! though as less trains ran at night they'd be even more regular in the day. I "explored" the station site after closure, the vandals had already been though so no real souvenirs to be "liberated" (unless you fancied a signal gantry or footbridge? On the other side of the bridge was a voting slogan, later altered and later still painted over, anyone recall what it said? Behind that low painted wall in the photo was car sales pitch (in 1968) probably before and after too? A right Arthur Daley type, nearly bought a van from there but barred by the wife as the reg no. letters were VAL (don't ask!)
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Can't say 100% that is the bike I saw, It's getting on for 40 years ago! seem to recall it was green when I saw it on display? Pure speculation on my part here,but at the time I saw it, a transverse 4 cylinder shaft driven motorcycle with the name gold or golden dream I instantly reminded of another bike wth the name gold init, but this time made in japan
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4/1 etc women v men is total fallacy, matter of fact males slightly in the lead, always been so, the myth stems from the fact most trades in Nottingham were more female oriented and every day thousands of women arrived in nottingham via buses and trains from villages and other towns temporary swelling the ratio at certain hours
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I do recall at one time or another most of the blechers and dyers factories going up in flames! at the time there was much speculation re insurance jobs etc!
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Aw well at least I woke the forum up, lol
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To me it looks like there was another building in black fronting Station St with a a part /////// which I have seen on other maps as representing a glass roof? sothis could well have been the mk 2 station and "my building" a parcel office
Cafes and Greasy Spoons
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Re Kitty Cafe, in Turkey most out door eating places had "resident cats", strays that used to hang about them, nobodytbothered but if you fed one it would remember you and be back the next time, the only place I've seen swimming cats too, the waiters used to throw them in the pool, they didn't appear to mind, you could tell some enjoyed it, probably glad to cool off