Cliff Ton

If you're on Facebook there's a lot of old Makemson's photos here.... https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.317068805159160&type=3

Outside today I've been wearing a heavy jacket which I hadn't expected to use again until next winter.

Yes, the Chateau was a Berni at some point in its life, although I never managed to visit the place. It closed down and was demolished in the early 2000s, and the site now includes a Gym, a Starbucks, and a Lidl.

Some Clifton services went over Clifton Bridge, and others went over Trent Bridge. The latter route included going along Wilford Lane which had a low railway bridge. All the operators (NCT, South Notts, WBUDC) had low-bridge buses to cope with that bridge. That's how I had direct experience of those long seats and side gangway.

As has been said before, if someone doesn’t like a particular thread - or topic - the solution is to ignore it and move on to the next thing. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a facility to automatically ignore a thread - although curiously you can set preferences to ignore a particular person. I doubt if the Politics thread puts off newcomers, because most people finding Nottstalgia for the first time won’t even see it. They get here by searching a particular topic (eg. Drury Hill, or Victoria Station, or Berridge School), which leads them to the relevant thread.

There's been a lack of activity around here for a few days, and to underline the point, yesterday the biggest contribution came from a spammer who made 24 posts in one session.

I'm struggling to take the Menzies story seriously. If someone invented the incident in a novel they'd be told it was ridiculously unbelievable. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68858604

They've approved it. https://westbridgfordwire.com/waterside-bridge-for-river-trent-gets-unanimous-support-from-councillors/

I remember that, but it's not one which comes to mind when anyone mentions The Animals.

People of a certain age might remember "Let's Go to San Francisco' by the Flowerpot Men in 1967, who were just a group of session musicians. They recorded a few other songs but none were successful. One was 'In a Moment of Madness'...which was later released by White Plains...although it was the same people. I'd forgotten how good it was.

That figure explains why car insurance is so high these days. Imagine a car involved in a minor shunt and the front end being slightly bent; if one headlight costs £1k how much would the whole front end cost (eg. radiator, bumper, grille, etc).

Every time Truss speaks, you think she can't get any madder..........but she always does.

A small area in West Bridgford was hit by a tornado yesterday and caused a spectacular amount of damage in around 10 seconds. https://westbridgfordwire.com/west-bridgford-tornado-30-images-show-extent-of-damage-caused-by-freak-weather-event/

It's greatly to their credit that they could still perform in such embarrassingly bad conditions. A good demonstration of how pop music was treated in those days. The programme and organisation was in the hands of middle-aged men in suits who had no idea or understanding of what was happening.

Presumably on Long Row somewhere between King St/ClumberStreet ? And the name Peter Barrie vaguely rings a bell; I probably walked past the place many times, obviously without going in.