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The blue buses I remember was the South Notts service which ran from Huntingdon St bus station to Loughborough via London Rd, Trent Bridge, Wilford lane, Clifton (main Rd) then out through Gotham and East Leak. Just one an hour back in the sixties and i don't know if the service still runs or who runs it. That was the only route into Clifton before they built the Clifton Bridge And although I hate to admit it I can still vaguely remember when there was no bridge.

Bluebuttons with smoked bacon!! where's me boots.

Nice to see something about the opening rarther than its closure I went there the following year in 1959 and can still remember all the fuss with regard to the uniform. Mum and Dad went through hell and high water to make sure I had one even though money was very tight back then.

https://familysearch.org/ I did a quick search on the above which is pretty good for the older dates and although there are quite a few entries for May Marlow back then in Nottinghamshire there is nothing for St Leonards, most of the entries come from Cuckney near Bassetlaw plus a few other local entries so it looks like chulla is right and it would mean looking at the church records at the archive.

They rave about period features when looking for new homes, they should try remembering that those fireplaces were our only means of keeping the house warm we didn't have central heating, we had to burn coal and later coke of course

I think they are both wrong Richard Greene was born in Plymouth Devon!

I didn't mean to infer that you would be wasting your time the info you get from the census records is quite interesting and using that info i.e birth place to search and get back further can be very rewarding. For instance a child in one census who is say 12 years old will only be two years old in the previous census 10 years before, its how you conduct the search and build your family tree. Try not to copy what other people have already done because as Rob L has already said some people just guess instead of truly sorting it all out, I made many such mistakes when I first began but you soon

Completely agree with post #15 its quite easy getting back to 1841 using the census records providing you have reached the 1911 census acurately, beyond that just church records and other oddments. If your family was in the same place for along time then the chuch records can get you back a fair way but I got no farther than about 1656. You are just number crunching though and finding out anything about the people that far back is very time consuming and sometimes fruitless.

Those sewing machines you mention bring back lots of memories I worked on all of them over the years the Fellers were almost the same as the Blindstitch. The industry as you remember it all went in the late nineties Courtaulds were taken over by an American company named Sara Lee who transfered all of main production abroad. There are still a few private units that survive making the high end stuff but they are few and far between.

I think with regard to children most of us have been there done it and got the tee shirt. I like to see and hear children play but 24/7 not anymore thanks. I can still remember pushing the pushchair around the british holiday resorts in the rain looking for places that had family rooms so if it's a little easier for young parents nowadays then good for them, the pubs need all the business they can get anyway. Must admit that the wife and I tend to look for adult only holidays but it might be different if we had Grandchildren. Horses for courses!!

When I saw the picture I was totally unconvinced but it seems you are right that is the place but not at all as I remember it. Then I came across the above on line.

I remember a place called "The Railway Club" on Wilford Lane somewhere between the Chateau and the Rivermead flats we used to frequent the place on a sunday lunchtime it had one of those old fashioned tanner one armed bandits, Tic Tac Toe dropped the jackpot all in tanners and was one of the most wonderful sounds I can recall. Just wondered if anyone remembered the place and what it had to do with the railways.

I left between the age of six and seven and remember very little of the place now. Singing the Alphabet and the multiplication tables on the wall with names which indicated which one a pupil was up to. I know that I was already a good reader when I left so there's a plus for the way they taught back then, Nowt wrong with the three Rs Reading Ritin An Rithmatic.

Used to like a pint at The Ferry Inn! Also remember walking back to Clifton that way on the night The Dungeon was raided having missed the last bus, no one there to collect the toll at that time of night so I still owe them. I think that Wilford and at least that part of the Meadows must have been in the same Diocese as my brothers wife lived on Cremourne Cresent in the meadows and they were married at Wilford church.

The Scala wasn't always porn and horror, one of my older brothers was a projectionist there in the mid fifties and I remember going to see Calamity Jane there for free.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/59613544@N08/5455257719/ I think some of us may have been confused as to the stations at Jacksdale and Codnor Park & Ironville http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3152757 I know I was because I did not know that there were two stations just the high level one on the old viaduct and yet I live just a hundred yards from Station Road in Codnor Park.

Many thanks bilbraborn I will have to see if an old map is available anywhere local, There is still some kind of ID plate on one side of the structure would this tell me anything.

Dinner Monitor was the best one! Anyone who didn't like cabbage got double, Quite the opposite when Caramel tart was on the Menu! then the Monitors were always well fed.

#42 & #47 Nice to see them using the old buildings instead of tearing them down and putting up glass and concrete blocks.

Strange to read someone's description of the area I have lived in for the past forty odd years. If you had gone across the kids playground from the community centre carpark and then down through the nature reserve toward stoneyford one of the things you pass is an old railway bridge or at least the two sides of one, I have often wondered weather the line would have been one that went into the old butterley wagon works or not. I know the whole area was once covered in railways and canals but very little of it now remains. The station I was told is the one featured in the film "The One That Got

I am as nostalgic as anyone else when I think of the times I watched the trains cross that Viaduct but they never will again and maybe some of the old structures should go. I still remember the big one out here at Jacksdale being demolished and in that case it did improve the skyline somewhat. Of course there are exceptions the most obvious being Monsal in Derbyshire which is spectacular and I still have not given up hope that one day they may reinstate the track there.

I used to attend Sunday school there in the 1950s and was to become a choir boy but we moved to Clifton, on line dates it from 1889 to 1975 which is when I assume it was pulled down

I know there is probably a whole tread about the Berni inns but they are the ones I miss "The Chateau" on Wilford lane was somewhere the Mrs and me would go on a saturday night when we could afford it, Prawn Cocktail, Steak and Blackforest Gateau, those were the days!!

Great pictures! Strange how they never capture any train spotters in them there must have been thousands of us back then with our 10S/6d combinds.

I was a Sewing Machine Mechanic back in the sixties and seventies and thinking back we all did a two year course at a place on Shakespere st, this was not a recognised trade back then and the training was done by other older mechanics and I seem to remember being told that it used to be a school, just wondered if it was the same place. If you wanted to do City & Guilds you moved on to the poly to do engineering 1. In later years it did become a trade and block release was available for all budding mechanics as it happens all a complete waste of time as the clothing and textile trades have