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When using the internet it is possible to pick up something malicious whether you are on PC or Mac. You need to be a bit 'internet savvy' to decide whether something is dodgy or not. The latest thing I came across and fell fowl of was 'ransomeware'. This scam causes your computer to be locked up and then they demand a ransom to be paid to the creator of the malware in order for the restriction to be removed. Antivirus won't catch it. You just have to watch out. Yes Macs do have bugs, but far fewer than Windows. Any tech director that would leave a virus on a system for 5 years needs shoot

I knew Julian Hickling. His sister's name was Rosemary. She is married with 3 children and lives in the former vicarage in Risley.

Well... not exactly. You can't easily use the Mac OS on a PC because the architecture is different. It is possible with a few specific motherboards, but I wouldn't recommend it. I tried to build a 'Hackintosh' some years ago and it was a nightmare. You can use Windows on Mac via a programme called Bootcamp, but it's via emulation and so won't be that fast. BASIC is a very old computing language I doubt whether anyone uses it much these days. Windows is coded in C++ and uses things like Visual Basic and .NET as frameworks for writing programmes. Mac is based on Unix (as is Linux), a ver

Yes, absolutely. Norton, McAfee, Avast, AVG etc. are for protection against malicious code from hackers, spammers etc. They are nothing to do with the bare bones of the OS Operating Systems tend to be extremely complicated and involved pieces of programming. Even after extensive testing, when they are released they are always full of bugs - Microsoft more so than anyone else! That's why they are constantly releasing hotfixes and Service Packs to overcome the problems that users encounter. The almost daily updates that are delivered by Windows Update are another one of the really annoying a

There was a family by the name of Hickling living on Sandy Lane, Bramcote in the 60's. I went to school with their son. Their daughter went to the grammer school. She now lives in Risley

He's right !

Like most people, I get fed up of all the nonsense with operating systems and Microsoft's attempts to force people into buying their latest offering. Perhaps if they came up with something really good that did things better or could do things that my old system couldn't do, I might buy it. But Windows 8 is a poorly thought out mish-mash that only creates new problems. Microsoft are actually really pissed off that Windows XP won't die and are doing their damnedest to try and cripple it. Fact is, it still works great. And to tell the truth, I can't really afford to 're-buy' all the software th

Hah. That would really be a sign that a place was failing if Poundland had decided to pull out! But then I noticed you mentioned that they'd actually just moved upstairs. Like Stephen says, they've gone 'up market'.

Yes, absolutely. They should be forced to live in the places they commission and design.

I quite agree. Some beautiful buildings have simply been levelled. Magnificent structures that could never be built today have just gone by the wayside, whereas some Godless concrete box gets a preservation order because some half-baked architect thinks it's a 'great example of the brutalist style'. I cringe at some of the buildings they are throwing up now. They are the kind of things that look great in an architect's portfolio, but look crap in a city centre - after only a few short years. Yet some building that had history, a heritage and still looked great gets knocked down. Nottingham

Re. the GCR in Grimsby. I used that station a lot in the 70's when I had to travel to and from college. I always tried to catch the 'London' train which I believe was called 'The Linconshireman'. It was direct from Grimsby to Kings Cross and extremely popular. When it came into the station they had to keep the level crossing closed at the back end (not the Wellowgate end) because the train was longer than the station. They often used to park it overnight on the recently closed ELR branch. It stopped at Lincoln St Marks and looked enormous in the tiny station. You could get a really nice

With ref. to Cliff's photo of the Three Wheatsheaves I used to play football for CWS Colts on the football pitches that were owned by the Co-Op just down that road going right before the bridge. Long since built over.

Thanks very much for all those comments. I could spend a fortune on books !

Ah. You're referring to the Suburban Railway books that David Birch did. I was actually talking about 'The Rise and Fall of Nottingham's Railway Network' which Compo recommended and which ran to 3 volumes. I recently bought the first one and wondered what the other volumes were like. I'll be looking forward to the last Suburban Railway book to come out. David Birch has done a good job of tracking down photo's of this line. I managed to get The British Railways Journal no.14 (1986) which has some fantastic stuff. Lots of photo's from when the line was built. 'The Friargate Line'. The one Ma

Compo. Got that book that you mentioned. Some great photo's in there. Do you know if the other volumes (2 & 3) are worth getting ?

Much as I like nature and wildlife, we've been overrun by foxes and grey squirrels in recent years - and our house is only 9 miles from the centre of the nations capital. I've got 2 fruit trees in my garden that no longer produce anything because the grey squirrels get there first and the foxes roam in and out of our gardens as soon as it gets dark so we have to keep locks on the bins. I've noticed that hedgehogs don't appear anymore (they used to be loads of them years ago) and as a result we get massive slugs and snails now. I'd love to have deers visiting, they seem really nice - but I'm

One of the spin-offs from privatisation, was that the companies that took over didn't actually have the required expertise to do the job properly and so had to re-employ lots of the people who had been there for years and knew how things should work. I know quite a few people who were discarded by BT when it was honing itself to be an attractive investment only to be taken back at much higher wages when it became a private company. Unfortunately, in the case of the railways and infrastructure maintenance, this specialised and responsible job was given to companies like Balfour Beatty and J

Those are excellent photo's Compo. I think I'm going to have to buy that book !

Thanks for the title of that book Compo. Any other interesting photo's of the NSR in there ?

Hey Compo, What was that book that you scanned for the image of the severed branch from Daybrook to the NSR route ? Tried to PM you - but doesn't appear to work. Regards

Ashley. I recall, from reading about Mapperley tunnel, that the roof collapse was in 1925. All trains had to be diverted over the Suburban line while it was being repaired. It was probably the busiest that the NSR had ever been! Even though the tunnel was repaired and re-instated, it continued to suffer problems due to subsidence and was subject to speed restrictions until the eventual closure in April 1960 as you've said.

Looking back through this thread, someone posted a link back to another thread: http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8876&page=2 In post number 34, Compo posted some fantastic pictures of Daybrook station and the severed link to the NSR. Can you tell me please what book you scanned these from? Ta. (I did try PM'ing Compo but it wouldn't work !)

'The Price Of Love' by The Everlys was the first single I bought with my own money. 5/6d if I remember rightly. Fantastic songs and great harmony singing. They were a unique sound. Sad that booze and drugs split them apart for so long. RIP Phil. Gone but not forgotten.

Re. GCR embankments. I'm given to understand that a lot of the material that they removed from places like the Victoria Station basin and the various tunnels went to making up the embankments. Even so, they would have still needed emormous amounts of material. The number of bricks and the mortar used must also have been colossal. Especially as they liked to used those nice 'blue brindle' bricks with black lime mortar. Making structures look attractive was important in those days! Re. Victoria Station demolition. Yes, very depressing to see. One point I'd like to know more about is the fact

I was saddened to see the passing of David Coleman though I have to say, I was never a fan of his sports commentary. I've got several tapes of his gaffes and unguarded comments and it's clear that he wasn't the pleasant persona that he tried to project on TV. When he resigned from the BBC in 2000 there wasn't much of a send off because most people didn't actually like him that much. One aspect of his career that will live on however is the peculiar ability that he had to use the mixed metaphor or completely contradict himself within the same sentance. Private Eye called it Colemanballs. "