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A nice mix of clean brickwork and some superb looking quality paving... Both features seemingly becoming 'lost arts' today. Cheers V. Meldrew

Lord Such, Your 10465 pic is the LM bridge pictured from the Cinderhill Road side. Sure we established this, when you first posted it... Compared to the GN bridge, always seemed to be devoid of regular traffic. BTW: Saw a light Deltic, in the distance, passing Bingham westward yesterday afternoon. Did you see (or even better,hear!) it passing ROT? Cheers Robt P.

Reckon you are both right... Suggest the pic is of the LMS bridge...GN bridge crossing Cinderhill Road, further south - past Leonard Street. Cinderhill Road began beyond the pictured LMS bridge. Useful 'rule of thumb' could be that the two bridges were at either end of the later long line of prefabs! Cheers Robt P.

The train is certainly heading south...photographer with his back to St Alban's Road. From the consist, it's almost certainly the well known York-Bournemouth working - which ran almost up to closure. Agree that pictures of your three nominated stations seem rare... Have seen a shot of Bulwell Hall Halt...nothing more than a short length of wooden planking! Walked/drove past Bestwood Colliery station on a daily basis... Situated at the top end of the 'Bone Mill' footpath, from A610. Built in a strange elevated manner on a curved embankment, which necessitated access by a flight of steep s

Sorry to disappoint Stu, but Jack wasn't really the sociable type. Rather a surly character (as were most of his acting roles) very much a lone drinker. Apparently his great acting mate was one Wilfred Lawson, another toper with even more of a reputation...Keith Barron was seen around less often; his portrayal of Nigel Barton was an early stepping-stone in a long and successful thespian career. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote,_Vote,_Vote_for_Nigel_Barton My small part was not as contrived as I may have suggested. Was merely in the Post Office collecting Colliery office stamps for Chief Cle

Stu, Travel back a mere 46 years to an ITV Wednesday Play, Stand up Nigel Barton - with Keith Barron and the irascible Jack Woolgar, also filmed at Bestwood Colliery. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059752/ I was an "unpaid" extra, pictured wandering out of the Park Road Post Office - armed with a wad of stamps... Jack Woolgar spent every free moment from filming (of which there were many) propping up the Welfare bar! Cheers Robt P.

Iliffe passed away many years ago... Regular broadcaster, on local historical matters, with McCarthy on Radio Nottingham. Was a long-time patron of the Five Ways, on Valley Road... Cheers Robt P.

Yes...the 'main' sidings (which ran to half a dozen tracks, or more) were the other side of the station. Often busy in the 50's, with ever-changing rakes of the ubiquitous 16T mineral wagons, that was where the Canberra finished up... IIRC, the single siding - featured in the photo' - was merely used as a headshunt. From the excellent picture, rather surprised at the length of the solo Class 25 hauled wagons - must run to 50+, although empties...doubt it could have handled such a loaded number! Also surprising that the up GC main line retains bullhead rail - at that late stage. Cheers Rob

Very interesting... An initial scan reveals the listed 'Seats of the nobilty and gentry' (Page 16 downwards), which includes many names which regularly crop up in the forum...Newcastle, Howe, Middleton, Willoughby, Charlton etc. Cheers Robt P.

You name it, he'll trivialize it... Eric: And yet, there have been recent documentaries highlighting how baseball has now eroded cricket enthusiasm in the WI. Supposedly a factor in the WI test team decline... Pete: Much of the youth encouragement now comes from active local clubs. My own club now runs more than a dozen youth squads, in the age groups Under 9's up to Under 15's. Many other clubs, such as Kinoulton and Radcliffe, do likewise. Leagues have been created to give the juniors some formal games, against one another... Cheers Robt P.

Extract from an item that I wrote, some years ago, in http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.willis/history/memories.html "My first encounters with Nottingham ‘Vic’ came as a child in the late 1940’s, when family visits to relatives took us onto the footbridge, which ran from Glasshouse St to Milton St.[sic!] This elevated walkway was sited immediately over the cavernous station beneath, and the sounds and smoke, which rose up, formed powerful (if somewhat intimidating) impressions of the goings-on beneath. Certainly a precursor to my fascination with the station, which remained through until it

Sort of... Certainly the construction at both the Mansfield Road and Glasshouse Street ends of the 'Public Footway' were filled-in sections but, the central third (which passed directly above the platforms) was built of latticed iron - which accounted for being surrounded in loco exhaust and gave a view of the station which was, perhaps, 30 or 40 feet directly below. Cheers Robt P.

Could you be confusing the pitch with that of Thrumpton CC? Certainly adjacent to the Power Station site and, whenever I played there, rather prone to various drifting vapours... Cheers Robt P.

His Plan A, causing sufficient provocation to merit the pay-off, seems to have misfired - for now. Doubt the Doughty/Pleat/Arthur relationship can last much longer. The Glasgow commute has also been an issue, and he's not used to being in the same job for so long! Cheers Robt P.

Doubtful... By legend, dozens of "moth-balled" steam locos are stored within. Known as the 'strategic reserve' or, as in railway terms, the s******** r******... Cheers Robt P.

Quite hilarious - but somewhat predictable - how the Clownty Oik's are so quick to condemn the efforts of the team that came so close to a money-spinning top spot, when they themselves so narrowly avoided/deferred their regular descent to the depths. Certainly true that £19m, for a string of Premiership defeats, would have paid many milk bills...

"If my memory serves correctly"... Cheers Robt P.

Even more so, since it closed! Cheers Robt P.

Dickinson... Cheers Robt P.

Suggest that Ashley was making oblique reference to gyppo surnames in his list... Cheers Robt P.

Yes indeed...RIP to Billy. Thanks for the many memories... Jeff Whitefoot now the sole survivor, as so many of them died relatively young he must feel rather philosophical... Cheers Robt P.

Always understood that the X99 route was the furthest north that any regular Midland Red service travelled. Also understood, in that - and earlier - eras, the majority of the Midland Red coach stock was built by themselves, at their own production outlet in Digbeth. Cheers Robt P.

Please accept my earnest commiserations upon the sad loss of your sister... I recall that her contributions to these pages were always enjoyed and appreciated. Cheers Robt P.

Both were branches of the Oadby (Leicester) Capucci family business, whose ice cream parlours were prominent in Leicester city centre...they also had a branch in Loughborough. Capucci family was directly related (and were initially funded) to the Forte organization... Cheers Robt P.

Have checked your picture at source...it is, as I suspected, 1933. Must agree that St Leo's could now be a candidate - Stockhill Lane housing wasn't built by then. Which leaves the quandry of the bus/tram on the left...seems too close to be on Vernon Road, as the Midland line/station and yards would be between???? Rode the A1 trackless to Ripley, just the once... We Bells' Lane urchins regarded the A1 service with great awe and mystique so, circa 51/52, 4 of us saved up and undertook the adventure (with great fear and trepidation!) from the Colliers Arms protection point, via such far-away