StephenFord

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  1. Looking in the mirror first thing this morning (a frightening sight!) I was reminded of another that my mum used to say : "Yer 'air's stickin' up like a chapel 'at peg."
  2. Well, I'm certainly not perfect. I can remember making a mistake once about, let me see, it must have been fourteen years ago I guess...
  3. nonnaB - you have to tell them "The E is silent, as in grass..." - but there is no E in grass. Quite so!
  4. I suppose if it had survived it would have had to have a different name - and it would almost certainly have been a daft one completely out of character with the place. (There we go - curmudgeon again!)
  5. I am obviously a completely sad person : 998AAL (1958 Ford Squire), 2146UB (1959 Ford Anglia), 432LOC (1964 Wolseley 1500), KVO546K (Ford Escort Estate), RAL221L (Volvo 144), VTV772S (Renault 5GTL), YAU752Y (Citroen LNA - my first ever brand new car), D827XLY (Vauxhall Belmont), L832VFE (Renault Clio - written off at 6 months old), L857AFE (Renault Clio - insurance replacement for the former), Y482VCT (Citroen Xsara), and my present Skoda Fabia - which I can also remember !
  6. "That's all for tonight, and the next Tonight will be tomorrow night. Good night!"
  7. If it burns coal to cook the water I don't quibble about who used to own it! Besides, with regard to the Severn Valley, they aren't limited to BR Mark 1 coaches like so many of the heritage railways. Complete rake of LMS stock, and another of LNER, as well as plenty of GWR stuff. That adds an additional dimension.
  8. Re #429 - thanks Merthyr - that adds a bit of balance to what I said. I think the general principle is that both routes were running on a pretty even basis - neither was obviously "better" whatever that might mean.
  9. I'm risking a fearful ear-bashing in saying this, but I'm not convinced that the service on the GC route to and from London was ever all that brilliant. I may be missing something from the middle years, but from the timetables I have been able to source there were no trains that really set the world on fire. In 1902 there were 11 trains to London and 10 coming back. The fastest were the 16.09 from Nottingham Vic at 2 hours 33 minutes, and the 13.40 and 15.25 from Marylebone at 2 hours 31. The 15.25 was non-stop from Marylebone to Sheffield, Nottingham being served by a "slip coach" dropped fro
  10. The old East Midland livery - replaced by all-red about 1956? - or was it later? - or earlier?
  11. Yes, I changed at Birmingham New Street last week, travelling from Leicester to Shrewsbury. I innocently and wrongly came up the escalator at the east end of the station, and find that you cannot even reach the other east end platforms without going through a ticket barrier and back again. The whole concourse area appears to have been carved up into sections divided by transparent panels so that you only discover when you reach them that there is no way through without turning round and finding a ticket barrier. They've taken I don't know how long faffing about with that abortion of a station,
  12. Surely you wouldn't mek much haselet from a heron would you? Yer'd need quite a few I reckon!
  13. If we moved back to Nottingham - and we have no plans to do so - I think I would like to live in the same area where I first saw the light of day - Woodthorpe. It's because I'm a curmudgeon who doesn't like change, and that particular area - Pateley Road, specifically - has not changed too dramatically. Of course, I can't actually remember living there, as we moved when I was 18 months old. Would I like to go back to the prefab on Aslockton Drive, Aspley? Erm - no, I don't think so.
  14. I have to agree Chulla - but I prefer it from a tin (you get more that way - I think!)
  15. Running from left to right across the top of the picture is Sherbrooke Road (Carrington), with what used to be Carrington Baptist Church, where my wife and her family were long time members.
  16. Are they the famous "ten o' clock 'osses" that my mother in law used to talk about?!
  17. Absolutely right Benjamin - but I fear I'm likely to become a bus bore (if I haven't already!!) - at least I recognise the danger ! I may have said this before concerning Hunt & Colleys. My uncle worked at the Ministry of Labour, and had cause to send them a questionnaire requiring the supply of various information about the company. One of the questions was "Main business..." to which the MD replied "Filling in xxxxxy daft government forms!" - Not much changed there then!
  18. Re #27 - the small printers on Hucknall Road was Hunt and Colleys.
  19. Sorry, only just popped back on for a last look tonight! Very glad to see the problem is solved by Enigma of Nottsleuths !
  20. ...and yet, (a) you can't see Canal Street going across that corner and the shape of the clock-tower and building doesn't quite match - even allowing for 60 years of rebuilding etc. and (b) what business would a 31 Mapperley have down there? But I'm baffled - there were only a few right hand turns on the 31 route in the city centre area. Going out, they were (1) Old Market Square into Market Street; (2) Market Street across Parliament Street into Theatre Square; (3) Sherwood Street into Shakespeare Street (ruled out by the presence of trolley wires) and (4) Mansfield Road into Woodborough Road
  21. The first picture (which I have seen published elsewhere) is at Calverton Road/Surgeys Lane, Arnold (terminus at the time of the 20A). HAU43 was apparently withdrawn from service in 1956. The second (HAU37) looks as if it could be in West Bridgford, but I'm not sure. Any other takers? The third (KTV276) I assume is South Parade, and it's showing the old 21 destination of Alford Road before it was extended to Wellin Lane, Edwalton. Is the last one (KTV271) turning out of King Street into the Old Market Square - or have I got that completely wrong? KTV271/6 were amongst the first new buses boug
  22. Or perhaps even "I'm walking backwards for Christmas..."
  23. Re #25 - Merthyr - what John Knox called in a rather vituperative pamphlet "The Monstrous Regiment of Women" - it didn't exactly win him any Brownie points with Queen Elizabeth 1, against whom the comment was launched!
  24. Re #1910 - yes, that was my understanding of "slorming" too - as in "there they were slorming all over each other."