Cliff Ton

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We have a lot of trivia going back pre-Debenhams http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4908&hl=debenhams#entry100185 I'd guess your job was to explain the complicated "new" money to little old ladies who were still working in shillings and pence.

Last logged in on August 25th.

That University campus is now covering almost everything that ever used to be on Triumph Road. All that's left of the "old" Triumph Road are a few units at the Derby Road end. And the Player's place is still there at the other end.

That's an idea I've also thought of, and I think it might work, but with one possible problem. If we said eg "the first Thursday in the month at the Roebuck" - nobody would go every time, but everybody would go sometimes, so on any "first Thursday in the month" you could turn up knowing there would be a random selection of Nottstalgians there. The hiccup might be if, by a chance, only one person happened to turn up that month. Hello Jimmy No-mates.

I've mentioned it many times. I reckon it's largely through memory - or lack of. Somebody finds the forum, signs in, makes a few posts, and then forgets all about it. Maybe a few months / years later, they will remember it or accidentally stumble on it again. The number of people who join, and remain, and continue to makes posts, is very small. I also think alcohol might play a part. Some of those who have never posted probably signed in one night when they were surfing the net after coming home from the pub. They probably don't even remember what happened after that.

My habit of taking photos of anything has paid off. Apparently it was the building which was under construction but not yet finished, and this is how it looked in July. Wooden construction may be very eco-friendly, but it has one obvious disadvantage. Look at the amount of the stuff here. It now looks different.

...and then one a bit later for the xmas meet-up. One is normally difficult........anyone taking bets we can organise 3 before the end of the year?

You're right it was mentioned......a long time ago, but nothing has happened on the subject since then. So the next meet-up (whenever it is) will probably also be the 10 year meet-up as well.

Whilst doing family history research I came across this. A newspaper I don't remember ever seeing; the West Bridgford and Clifton Standard in 1958. A report on the newly-opened Fairham school, with a warning about luminous socks.

Do you think you have any connection with this person, or is it just a coincidence of names? As others have said, finding anything about a death 250 years ago is going to be very difficult, especially as you have no links or information about those intervening 250 years. You could try contacting the staff at Nottinghamshire Archives http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/learning/history/archives/ If anyone can point you in the right direction, they will.

At the time of the Greenham Common protests in the late 70s, there was a crowd of similar protesters camped outside Chilwell for several months.

And bear in mind that any census from the 1800s is less than 100% reliable. The information written down is what the occupants of the house told the enumerator who knocked on the door. If the occupants wanted to keep someone secret, they didn't mention them; or they could say "this person is Ethel Smith, she is my aunt and was born in 1843" when in fact it was his sister Freda Jones born in 1864. The enumerators wrote down what they were told; there was little facility to prove or dis-prove otherwise.

Or try here. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1103&hl=chilwell

Surely, everybody's family tree ultimately starts at Adam and Eve, so yes - we are all related. Which is a worrying thought.

Not long ago there was a mention of the 1770s Badder & Peat map, and Gridle Smith Gate is marked.

That family tree will have taken a very long time to put together (even if the person responsible was working full-time on it). I don't think you could check it without taking a similar long time yourself. It would be easy to check the more recent entries by looking at the online census information at various websites. But once you go back earlier than 1841, I think you'd have to devote a lot of time if you want to prove / disprove anything.

Take yer pick.

I wouldn't be surprised to go in some pubs in Bulwell and see children smoking. Whilst holding on to their bull terriers.

When it comes to being out in public, children are like dogs - they reflect their owners. If they have been brought up or trained well, they are perfectly ok in public places. There are good and bad examples of both (and sometimes the bad ones can be difficult to tell apart). If the dog / child behaves badly in public it tells you everything about the parent / owner. If they behave well in public, their owner / parents are probably fairly civilised people.

....and other things, apparently.

Not just the Co-op that's gone, even the building itself has gone. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9643338,-1.1787127,3a,75y,130.75h,93.01t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sdULdwPJ2oUKWDG6h4plRXg!2e0?hl=en

I believe the image at the top of the Nottstalgia page was flipped to fit better in the space available.

Conspiracy theorists will probably tell you it's happened already. (where is TYAFANS when we need him?)

The political and religious threads were not particularly popular with a large number of members. You will find that in almost all cases, it was the same half-dozen people having the same arguments over and over again. The majority of members did not take part in those threads, they consciously avoided them. There were a considerable number of people who stayed away from Nottstalgia when it went off down that direction; some have never returned to find out if things have gone back to normal. Those threads tended to degenerate into slanging matches between the same parties, which in turn meant