StephenFord

Here you are - take a look at this. I discovered it a couple of weeks ago and spent a pleasant couple of hour browsing. www.meltonmowbray.steamrailways.com

I have a book that has a track plan - including of the original horse-drawn Nottingham and district tramways - which shows the terminus as being at Isandula Road, with a depot on Isandula Road itself. I guess the horse trams took a bit longer than a steam train to get to town - bearing in mind the hill up Radford Road and Alfreton Road, and I read somewhere that in the other direction they attached an additional "cock" horse from the Market square to Canning Circus. Of course, the trams were probably more frequent.

It appears that there was never a time when the tram tracks actually finished at Northern Bridge. The original horse tram route opened in 1881 only went as far as Basford Gas Works. Electrification and extension through to Bulwell Market took place in 1901. In 1933 route numbers were changed, tram route 3 Trent Bridge to Bulwell Market became C, later converted to the well-known trolleybus route 43. At that time, tram 4, which became D, ran from Colwick Road to Northern Bridge, with some peak hour journeys continuing to Bulwell. (This became trolleybus 44, with the wires extended to Bulwell Ha

Re #33 - Robbie, Phil Waller is married to my wife's cousin.

Re #1881 "Penalty for improper use £5" - oh no, that was a different sort of chain ! Re #1882 - No, its an AEC Regent Three, with 9.6 litre engine, air-operated pre-selector gearbox, and Park Royal body. [sorry, I have a reputation to maintain - as a nerd!]

No - dad never had a car, and never drove. Neither did my mum. Why bother when he had free passes on the railway, and (cheap) buses every few minutes into the late evening. So my earliest experiences of car travel were very occasional taxis to and from the station, when leaving very early or getting back very late. Then from about age 7 my friend's dad in Long Eaton had a car (first an elderly Morris 10 - AAG81, later a Morris 1000 Traveller, 887ATO), and I was sometimes invited to go with them on day excursions. Then my uncle bought a 1936 Ford 8 (DKN252). My aunt made loose covers for the se

"There was a young man from Dundee Who was terribly stung by a wasp. When asked, "Does it hurt?" He replied, "Not at all - It can do it again if it likes."

I'm not sure where this came from, or that I have it exactly right, but it went something like this : "The Cabinet's finished, they've gone out to dinner - The secretary stays, and gets thinner and thinner, Writing the minutes to make his report Of what HE thinks that THEY think they OUGHT to have thought."

What about the 18?

Naughty little Willie Fraser Found his dad's electric razor; Rugs and mats that once were hairy Now are bald - and so's the canary.

Somebody, please remind me which buses went from which stop. I'm pretty sure the 6 (and maybe 28) was on the north side - i.e. with your back to Victoria station.

Re #52 - £8 million - that's an awful lot of concrete !

Ain't that luvly - seriously ?

Pinxton jam mines; Selston treacle pits; and Shottle where they bottle fog.

I seem to remember my dad saying its like looking at a black.............in a coal cellar on a dark and foggy night.

Don't think that was bluster - just the truth! Very few of us thought about the cold war - except from time to time. I do remember being on holiday in Llandudno in August 1962, and everyone being on thorns about the Cuban missile crisis, then unfolding. But in the absence of today's news emphasis on melodrama, I don't recall constant wringing of hands - or even serious worry - over the prospect of nuclear war. I was never very politically savvy, but from memory, everybody seemed confident that the main protagonists on both sides were far too sensible to "press the button" - knowing that they w

The one following the trolley is a green NCT Daimler CVD6 bought in 1949. There were 15 of them, plus another 16 with a different style of body. At this time I think they were allocated to Sherwood depot, and used on the Arnold routes and the 31 Mapperley.

Notty Ash - it appears that the spire (the tallest in Nottingham) was declared unsafe and removed a while before the church was closed and demolished.

Funnily enough, I don't ever remember going on a Skills tour - we didn't do coach tours much (with dad working for the railway). But occasionally we would go on a Derbyshire tour by Bartons or Trent. I remember going to Ilam and Dovedale around 1953, and there was the longest tailback of traffic going down the hill from Thorpe village. In fact, the only time I remember travelling on Skills at all was a trip out to Radcliffe on the ordinary bus service that they ran jointly with Trent to Shelford and East Bridgford.

I hope you're not implying that he might be in-compo-tent !

When I was about 4 and learning to read, I had an animal alphabet book : "A is for Antelope, B is for Beaver etc. And eventually (they were obviously having problems with this one)... X is for Xenurus (or Armadillo).

No, he'd be lurking within tent !

A nappy noo year t' all on yer.

Along with, "One, two, three.........four...that's it. Can't tek anymore." [Followed by 'Ding, Ding, Ding']

Yes - but not consistently (as they were up and down stairs collecting fares). The only thing I remember them regularly shouting was "'Owd yer tight now!"