Cliff Ton

In the Clarkson days, Top Gear had by far the largest audience of any programme on BBC2 - in the region of 5-6 million, when any other BBC2 programme would be pleased to get 2 million. And as Brew mentioned, those programmes also generate a massive amount of income for the BBC through licensing deals, programme sales, and merchandising. Top Gear back then was one of the few programmes which put a lot more money back into the BBC than it ever cost to make.

Ruth's link goes to a photo on ebay of a paraffin/oil heater. That's a subject which crops up often in this old thread about outside toilets (which may also be relevant to some schools). https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/6627-so-who-did-have-a-house-with-an-outside-toilet/

The temporary red barriers have now become solid looking lumps of concrete, and no doubt all lorry drivers will pay attention to the new warning sign.

Send my regards to your dad....but as I'm sure I've mentioned before it makes me feel very old because I remember your dad as a very young boy (baby even) who lived in the house at the back of us on Clifton.

I think Michael posted this in the wrong thread. It should have been in "A place for all your jokes".

Welcome Cotgrave girl. Dave Spence posted that message in June 2015 and only ever returned to the site for a few days after that, so you probably won't get a reply to your question. But there's a chance that someone else (who isn't Dave Spence) might know something, so don't give up hope.

Maybe I'm Epic.

Does that mean you have to be a paid-up member of Ancestry ?

That's interesting because at the moment on the two vintage bike posts, I'm seeing this.

When you get the results back from Ancestry, what exactly do you get ? Without knowing anything about it, I always assumed it would be a bit generalised and not all that useful for taking things any further.

Me too. It's that Compo problem which has happened before.

Honestly, the only one I got from Google was Sophistic. It was either that or Pythagoreanism.

Was The New Inn the one which was across the road from Bristol Street Motors (Citroen) at the time ? It's now this https://goo.gl/maps/J9JuLtUrzY5U4EmJ8 and Bristol Street have become Lidl.

I've been accused of many things during my life, but that's the first time I've been called a Greek Philosopher. Now I'm worried whether I might be Stoic, Platonic, Cynic, Sophistic or Epicurean.

For anyone who hasn't been in the area recently, the part of Wollaton Street - where it adjoins Talbot Street - has changed. It used to look like this... And currently looks like this...