StephenFord

I seem to remember that most of the Goose Fair showmen moved on the Hull fair the following week. Don't know whether they still do.

The Goose Fair buses used to follow the route now taken by the trams and the dropping off point was Mount Hooton Road/Bentinck Road. I think the town terminus moved about a bit - I seem to remember it being on the south side of the Old Market Square (i.e. opposite South Parade), which is also where the tour of Nottingham buses also started on selected bank holidays. For anybody who's interested I wrote a piece about the Goose Fair buses for the old bus photos website http://www.old-bus-photos.co.uk (look under articles).

Remember seeing a pole come off on a 40 going over the points where Carrington Street and Greyfriargate diverged. It was Goose Fair Saturday, and heavy traffic was following too close behind so there was not enough room to pull the long hook out from under the bus. The conductress had to nip across and borrow one from a passing 43 that she flagged down on Carrington Street. So then there were two stationary trolleybuses holding up swarms of traffic around them. Lovely job!

I seem to remember there is also a Jericho not far from Jerusalem (Lincs).

And Cromer pronounced Croomer - where the crabs come from.

Funny how scooters in the modern genre have made a come-back. And they seem to be favoured by kids a lot older than in our day. A few lads in the early years at the secondary school just round the corner (say 11-12 year olds) go to school on them. I reckon we would have looked down on this as infantile. Bikes yes, but scooters - that was for little kids.

Ah - only the GT models had brakes. Yer musta bin posh!

Great stuff. My mate in Long Eaton had a trolley that he shared with me. Mind you, it was all a bit flat round LE, so we had to push each other. One of our local roads was unadopted, and only had houses on one side. The other side was like a country road with a grass verge and a bit uneven. If you didn't hang on to the rope tight, and you hit a pothole the axle was likely to turn suddenly and you would be deposited in the road, very likely getting seriously scraped knees - not to mention torn trousers, which was a hanging offence!

Welcome Marob. Get posting !

No, a Regent III - one of 72 supplied 1952/53 (OTV127-OTV198), bodies by Park Royal. Three, including OTV161, were sold to Grimsby-Cleethorpes Transport in 1967, and quite a few (about 20 I think) were also sold to Hull about the same time. They had 9.6 litre engines and pre-selector gearboxes, which gave them a distinctive sound, especially in the lower gears. Yes they did various updates over the years - some of the buses supplied around 1948/49 originally had illuminated trafficator arms, which were later replaced with flashing indicators.

Long time ago before the 56 migrated from the Old Market Square to Granby Street.

The 56 turned at the junction of Wigman Road/Fairnley Road. 60 at Birchover Road/Westwick Road. The 13 was a bit of an oddity, and perhaps someone can shed light on how the route evolved. Certainly it was the odd man out in that it reached Beechdale Road via Alfreton Road, Aspley Lane and Western Boulevard, rather than Ilkeston Road, as per the 56 and 60. By 1971 it terminated at Glaisdale Drive/Burnside Road, running peak hours morning, lunchtime and teatime, plus half-hourly all day on Saturdays. I seem to remember in the early to mid-50s it finished at Wigman Road/Fremount Drive. However th

Appreciative, sensitive and respectful comments. Nice.

And just to add to the silliness, fish go "Bob".

No it's birds that go "cheep" !

Actually I only knew the prices of school dinners from announcements and frequent reminders when the price changed. I distinctly remember Mrs Sewter at Mikado Road repeating each morning "Don't forget - dinner money is going up next Monday - you'll need to bring four and tuppence." And even then some dimwit turned up the following week with the old amount and got an ear-bending. Personally I never ever stayed school dinners - and as I was a fussy eater as a kid, I never wanted to.

Mick - 3/4d was the price for a week - i.e. 8d a day - so you got five for that. There were 6 x 3/4d to a pound, so 6 x 5 = 30 skool dinnuz for a pound. That's why the price increases were in multiples of 5d.

When I was at infants school you'd have got more than 20 school dinners for a pound. I can remember it going up from 3/4d a week (30 dinners for £1) to 3/9d (26+) to 4/2d (24) and eventually 5/- in about 1957 I think. (Full of useless trivia - even at half past two in the morning!)

My uncle (from Birstol) was in the RAF during the war, and posted to Syerston about 1943. On their first trip into Nottingham he and a group of other airmen enquired where the action was. Someone (it might have been a policeman) said the Palais was a good bet - adding "but you'd better take a club with you to beat the girls off!" Anyway, he met my mum's sister, and the rest is history.

OK - just been to get my lunch - a pack of 5 slices of peppered ham from Iceland (the shop, not the country!)

But on the whole, you might as well drop it down a drain !

"A hole has appeared in Arnold health centre car park - the police are looking into it... "'Allo, 'allo, 'allo - what we got 'ere then, eh...?"

Hi Poohbear - I wouldn't have contracted you because I know my own memory isn't infallible, but I m sure folk referred to "Saxby's chimney" (not chimneys) as a feature of the landscape - and that would be 1954 or earlier.

Yes, and the loss of proper industry, with proper jobs - including a good proportion for those not of an intellectual bent - is also down to That Woman, for whom stirring the banking cauldron and living on the froth was the be-all and end-all of everything.

Stu, that's the curve I was thinking of at Firsby. Ashley, the only other curve I can think of that fits the bill is just coming into Boston where there is a sharp left-hander (the line from Grantham used to join the main line from Peterborough to Grimsby at this point). As for excursion at Suburban Junction - I guess it would be coming from Derby Friargate, or possibly down the GNR's Leen Valley branch - though I think trains to the coast from that way tended to go north through Mansfield Central, then Edwinstowe and Lincoln. But in them days excursions sometimes went by strange routes to a