Cliff Ton

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  1. The days when you couldn't move in north Nottinghamshire for railway lines. The present Robin Hood Line is the curvy track going from the bottom of the map to the top.
  2. Not a test but a genuine question. I used to know the answer but I've forgotten... the letters G E M stood for something but I can't remember. Like Giant Enormous Massive (but obviously not that)
  3. If you search something like scam police website lock you will find pages of examples of that particular scam.
  4. If you went under Arno Vale Road and then to a tunnel, it would've been Mapperley Tunnel which went under the crossroads at Mapperley Top This show it all in the 1920s (probably before your time!). Daybrook Station is the red dot on the left, Arno Vale Road is under the words 'Arnot Hill', and I've highlighted the tunnel
  5. www.britainfromabove.org.uk
  6. I think we've done this before, but it was so good I'm doing it again. It's even named on the maps.
  7. Robert, if you haven't already found it, we've got a thread on Shelton Street infants http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10423&hl=shelton
  8. It started - and finished - around 1976-77.
  9. It was the Lilac Leopard which is the photo I posted. They operated from several Park and Ride sites, but nobody used them. It was part of the Zone-and-Collar Scheme.
  10. An idea before its time. Free city centre bus services are now quite fashionable. And another bus idea from Nottingham which was too early for its own good.....
  11. The posts didn't go astray, they just got shunted back in the thread. I answered them at the time, and I think I got 50% correct. Go back to Post #150 to see my answers and Post #156 to see Ashley's reply.
  12. Yes it is walkable. It's a bit like walking through a building site, but they have kept footpaths open - even put temporary street lights up.
  13. One of the extensions of the tram system is the line going through the Meadows, Wilford, and on to Clifton. For part of its route it follows the old Great Central line south of Nottm. Here's a few photos of the current state of things; people who used to know these various areas and haven't been back may be in for a bit of a surprise. Wilford end of Queens Drive with my back to the Toll Bridge; the tall building is the site of the former Cremorne pub, and the row of trees to the right of it are along Queens Drive http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae24/kc29_2010/tram2.jpg The to
  14. In the interests of efficiency and cost-saving, guess what?............http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21789759
  15. As it's an ex-work computer, you'll need to become an administrator. Does your wife have any contact with any work colleagues who were administrators? If she can get their log-in information she could then become an admin and she would have the powers and privileges to use things like Photobucket.
  16. And the other irony is that if the Great Central had not closed, there would be major, expensive problems trying to decide where to put the new tram line out towards Wilford and Clifton.
  17. Now you mention it, I remember that. It must've been along here, but it's almost impossible to recognise now because the roadside is full of trees which Barton planted when their depot was still operating. http://goo.gl/maps/z7Qky
  18. I can't get an enlargement off that map, but I can get it from an earlier version. This is 1880s and shows what I think is the beginning of the numbering on Bunbury Street (opposite Berlin Terrace); before that Bunbury appears to be just terraces with no houses fronting onto the Street.
  19. Nottingham bus tickets came from these contraptions