Cliff Ton
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Not the sharpest image I've ever posted, but I'm pretty sure this is the house.
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16 minutes ago, The Engineer said:
@Jill Sparrow there are another thread or two hereabouts where I have mentioned Stoneycroft.
It occupied a whole block between Wilton Street and Wallis Street, with the main entrance on Arnold Road. I think it
Is it the large place shown in the middle of here ?
Park Tavern is on the corner of Barlock Road (which hadn't yet reached up to Arnold Road.
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This subject of houses and factories on Arnold Road seemed vaguely familiar........and it's in this old thread.
https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/22746-hello-there-hey-arnold/
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3 hours ago, benjamin1945 said:
First General election i recall was 1951.........
The first one I paid any close attention to was 1970. Late in the evening by chance I started watching the first results on TV, and to my surprise I stayed watching well into the middle of the night.
At that same election, I saw Harold Wilson when he visited Clifton and stood at the open upstairs window of someone's house and addressed the crowd with a megaphone/loud hailer.
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More than any other election in recent times, I think many people will vote on the basis of who they don't want rather than who they do want.
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You may have already seen it, but Pearsons have a Wiki page which gives the names of various members of the Pearson family. Someone with access to Ancestry etc might be able to make it all add up (or not).
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That caught a lot of people by surprise........including the large number of Conservative MPs who will soon be looking for a real job.
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@susyshoes Wow, that's a blast from the past.
I remember you from way-back-when, and a few other names are still here.....but not as many as the old days.
And there's not as much Nottingham-related material as there used to be.
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The house in the story seems to be on the corner of Trafalgar Close. https://maps.app.goo.gl/SjUzJnLPzVEcrUMP8
Most of that side of Hartley Road has been 'modernised', whereas most of the other side has survived, albeit looking much scruffier than previously.
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Mid-way through my school life there was a big change in the way teachers addressed pupils.
At infants and junior school teachers always spoke to children using their first name; surnames were an almost unknown thing.
But moving to secondary school, it was all surname with no mention of first names.
It took me a while to get used to that; it seemed a bit cold and harsh.
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As is often the case, I found another old thread on this subject.
https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/16201-christian-names-first-names/
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It's fascinating the way names come in and out of fashion over the years.
I can't get over is the fact that the top name for boys this year is Noah. That would've been beyond a joke when I was at school.
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1 hour ago, trogg said:
After all this exercise I took sustenance here ,the food and coffee was great but Ben was never sighted, I even took my glasses so I could recognise him if he was about. Although I failed this time I will continue my quest to find him another time,
A reminder of what he looks like in his natural habitat, some time last year.
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Once again, no-one from Nottingham has appeared on the Sunday Times Rich List.
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1 hour ago, Brew said:
Grimshaw, though he painted mainly land and cityscapes was very, very good...
I'm a big fan of Grimshaw.
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Same with music.
Something which one person likes is just a noise to someone else.
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I'm also not very impressed by it.
It looks like a head (albeit recognisable and well-painted) floating around in a pomegranate.
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An old Black Country expression.
I'm going into the back room to slice my bacon.
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The name didn't ring any bells so I had to look him up.
Then I realised I had heard of him, but hadn't remembered the name. I agree his work is amazing, but obviously can't be seen by many people at any one time.
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I've been on an iMac since I first had a computer; largely as a result of working in Graphic Design and doing my 'training' as part of the job. There's no way I'd go via Windows, who I associate with (at least in the early days) being a bit rubbish.
However, I don't have - and won't have - an iPhone which I think is overpriced and unnecessary. My mobile is a Motorola running Android; it's a fraction of the price of an iPhone and does what I need.
My laptop is a Lenovo Chromebook.
So I've got a foot in most camps.
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Replying to a post from 16 years ago deserves some kind of prize !
Unfortunately @lesley kevindolphin hasn't been here for a couple of years, but hopefully he may find your message.
Looking back on this whole thread, there's a surprisingly large number of people who made a small number of posts and then disappeared.
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15 minutes ago, Brew said:
The strange names come from the fact many were Vietnamese.
Yes, it's either that or mid-European, such as Albanian/Poland/Croatia/etc etc.
And to prove the other point I made about the frequency of raids, only today.......
https://westbridgfordwire.com/500000-cannabis-found-across-multiple-rooms-in-a-sherwood-property/
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1 hour ago, DAVIDW said:
Getting back to the original query for new member "Ryedale" to find lost cousins , he was defeated by the vagaries of this site and was unable to get back to the thread.
I understand and agree with your comment about this site.....but I have to admit that I probably made things worse by moving his original post into another thread. It had originally been posted in a thread about steam trains and railways.
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Pearson Brothers
in General Chat about Nottingham
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There's still a chip shop (or similar) in that location. https://maps.app.goo.gl/zjzkRPZQmkaHKP8D6