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Lynmee, I'd forgotten that, but now you mention it.......... The temporary building was to the side of what became the petrol station? Almost opposite what is now the leisure centre/swimming bath?

kjkjkkjkjkjk If I click on that link I get a very big photo of a very big helicopter, so it seems to work in a way

Stu's post #32 shows the Square when Holy Trinity church was still there. I wonder what the public reaction was when the church had been reduced to this And I bet there are people here now who remember Trinity Square when it looked like this

See also this thread http://nottstalgia.c...?showtopic=8532

Streets like this - Ossington Street. The name remains but it doesn't look like this any more

Anybody else noticed what a mess the Trinity Square area is now? If you haven't been in Nottingham for a few years may not know the area has been totally redeveloped. Seems to have been designed by a committee who never met. The whole place makes the Contemporary building look pretty good in comparison. Never thought I'd regret the demise of a multi-storey car park. Here's a few examples:- Looking up North Church Street: the Dolphin (later Byron's) pub used to be on the left, and the Police HQ is still on the right. It's like being in Blade Runner. Looking down Burton Street towards t

We used to go on a bus down Alfreton Road to my grandmas, and I remember that very often when the bus got to the stop at Caulton Street - going in either direction - the driver would switch off the engine. It was obviously the time & place for a crew change, because he and the conductor would walk off down Caulton Street, and a few minutes later a new driver and conductor would appear to take over and carry on. There was no bus garage in that area, so where did they actually go?

I'm not a big fan of the programme, but Top Gear did a thing about Reliant Robins and it's one of their funnier items

Hanging around with the pigeons

Today I realised just how much it lives up to its name of Slab Square. Very difficult to come up with a more boring place

Moulin Rouge went and was replaced by an office block which has gone, and been repaced by another building. Trinity Square does not exist now. That area has been ruined even more than the Market Square. All that corner between Milton Street, Shakespeare Street, Forman Street, North Church Street is, I think, now a visual disaster. The refurb'd Vic Centre market seems better than what it replaced, so they can get some things right.

Was it always the wife of the house who ran the catalogue? I don't remember any examples of the male as the one who took the orders and ran the system. We didn't have one, but it seemed nearly everyone else did. As others have said here, it was a big social event to take the catalogue around to the various other houses to let them pick something. Anything bought from the catalogue was regarded as being a bit special; not some run-of-the-mill item which you could've got from any old shop in town. And it seems strange now that you could buy eg, a jacket, and then be paying for it for the next

I have quite a few of Douglas Whitworth's books, along with a lot of examples of Frank Stephenson's work. If it wasn't for them I wouldn't post half as much as I do. Can I add a word for the other member of the triad who have been responsible for most of the old Nottm photos you can see these days, Geoffrey Oldfield. I get him and Doug Whitworth mixed up because they have both produced a a great many books on the subject, and I've got most of them.

This one? http://maps.google.c...,274.73,,1,6.12

Taken by chance walking along the canal towpath. As I got closer I assumed it would eventually fly off, but by the time I took this I was no more than 4-5 ft away and all it did was look at me in a sly way over its shoulder and watch me walk past. I always think herons look a bit sinister and creepy; totally the opposite to the fluffy-chick syndrome.

Heseltine resigned from Thatcher's cabinet because he disagreed with her on so many issues. Apparently he stood up one day at a cabinet meeting and stormed out of Downing Street. He eventually stood as a Tory leadership candidate against Thatcher and he received enough votes to prevent her getting an outright victory; thus he was instrumental in ultimately causing her defeat and resignation

I can see it as well, but I think it's just a white blob on the lady's chin which combines with the shadows near her neck; then the whole lot looks like a face. Like one of those "faerie" photos from the 1920s

That's solved it!. Now I can come up with this, which proves it really did exist

Don't forget they can get their own back next Wednesday at the Bell

He hasn't changed that much, although Jayne Torvill has aged a bit

Now you've mentioned Conway Road, do you mean this location http://maps.google.c...2,64.43,,0,3.01 Standing at the end of Conway Road looking towards the higher-than-average railway bridge with embankments both sides. You would've seen all the wagons from Gedling pit coming along there

When I said "not exotic" I was meaning they are a breed relatively common to these parts, and not some obscure foreign visitor who had drifted off course. Wrong word on my part I guessed it was the reflection in the mirror and door window which was fascinating them. I've seen birds attack their own reflections before but in this case they didn't seem to be too aggressive towards what they were seeing; almost as though they regarded it as a new friend to hang around with

I'm not sure if you have dreamt it or not ...... And I stand to be corrected if I'm wrong on this I didn't know the area in those days, but the distance from Gedling pit to Netherfield sheds was quite considerable, and I've never come across any reference to any kind of overhead transport system in that area. Are you sure you've got those two locations correct?

I'm sure some of the resident ornithologists will come up with the make/model of this particular bird Last week two of these whatever-they-are took a strong liking to my car for a couple of days, especially sitting on the door mirror and near the side windows. They were there for literally several hours a day, fluttering around and generally using the car as a place to hang out. After their couple of days they disappeared and I haven't seen them again since. I know they aren't exotic, but what are they? (and these were taken on a cheap pocket camera, shooting from inside the house, through

Topic drift happens on many threads, not just this one