mercurydancer

Got a heavy 10cm of snow last night. Just enough to cover the car. Went into Billingham town centre - zombie apocalypse, night of the walking dead. That is normal for Billingham.

Margie That begs the question - have stations that have warm areas!

Latest report from North East England where there is serious threat to life. No wind, no snow, 3C. How am I going to survive the night without resorting to cannibalism?

As usual, a sensationalist story on the media about snow. Snow in winter. Worst snowfall in 5 whole years! In Co Durham we had a snowstorm this afternoon. It took about 38 seconds and is gone now. Its cool but not bitterly cold. Trains cancelled even before the snow falls! Trains cancelled because of no snow! I was in Moscow recently and they had a heavy snowfall, one meter in a few hours. Now that is a snowstorm. Nothing much stopped, apart from the flights. Pubs still open in downtown Moscow. What was the last sensationalist story? Weather bomb? Nowt much happened

Gunner As in Gunner goo dahn tahn satdy

I do battlefield tours, and Ypres is one of my localities. I specialise in locating graves and taking the relatives to specific graves. In Ypres, often all I can do is take the relatives to the Menin Gate and show them the name on the arch. It means that a body has not been recovered. I have often seen relatives find some kind of peace with a grave, but not so often with just a name on a wall.

From my time working in a cocktail bar, a jigger is a metal measure for alcohol

That sounds interesting. I lived in Bobbers Mill Road so I know exactly where the Vine is. Would it detract or add to the meeting if I brought along my grandfather's documents from 3 Ypres where he was shot? Obviously he lived otherwise I would not be here!

Ian Crown Court! Every weekday at lunchtime. Never saw it unless I was ill and at home. Often it was interesting drama. Van der Valk for the opening music. Black Beauty theme made me cry each time. In fact it still does. Do you remember the badly dubbed Robinson Crusoe programme?

I have a strong suspicion that I am on the front rank, last one on the right with the lovely jumper on.

Wb Beni Nasreen seems familiar to me, did her family run an Indian sari shop I think initially on Ilkeston Road but after that I dont know.

I did go into the Fountain on my weekends in Nottingham. I recall it was a Forest pub but cannot remember much trouble. IIRC it went a long way back, despite the narrow frontage. I loved Yates when they had the string quartet on the upper floor.

Aitor Karanka did OK for Boro, but ran into problems with the likes of Stewie Downing. Given a more focused team without primadonnas and he will do well for Forest.

I have done Red Square in Moscow to Old Market Square in one day.

Gravity is a odd thing. Its a wave apparently. These waves have been discovered. Not that gravity on earth varies much. Einstein defined what it could be on a huge scale, but we tend to live our lives in the gravity explained by Newton.

Nottingham is a sizeable city and could cope with the loss of trade by inhibiting motorists. Despite the howls from some of this site's members about the tram, Nottingham does have a decent public transport system which you can actually work out! I look at places like Darlington and Stockton on Tees, where the car parking charges are completely stupid. One street has parking for 2 hours at a pound. The next street has it for 20 minutes for a pound! The town centres therefore start to die.

The storm is heading north! Its not swinging round to cross NE England, the borders. It was originally tracked to go right over Edinburgh. Here in Teesside, its very quiet indeed. Almost no wind at all. The sky earlier was something out of an apocalyptic movie but is just light cloud now.

Even by Nottstalgia standards that is quick

Newbasfordlad, Yes Queant Road. I know that general area well, but have not visited that cemetery.

He was 22. Son of Samuel and Elizabeth Ward, 24 Suez Street. He lies at Queant Street, a small cemetery I do not know, but it is right in the middle of the Somme area. By the location of the cemetery it looks like his final resting place was moved from where he was originally interred. 3rd Division went through that area like a dose of salts on 2 September 2018 and was one of he elements which finished the war.

I'm just being curious but puzzled too, and cannot find anything like a decent meaning on this woodhouse thing on this site or on the steam search engines. There are lots of Woodhouses in Nottinghamshire, but not a lot elsewhere to my knowledge. I dont think I need to give a list, but Annesley is the closest to where my parents lived. I never knew that there was a Wollaton Woodhouse * Why are these places called Woodhouse? Could the word Wood have more meaning? Wodehouses where everyone was painted blue? If anyone knows, you lot do. *

letsvagoo Thank you for a very informative post. I cannot make the talk you mentioned, and I will be in London for the Remembrance weekend. Your history is very personal, and therefore intense and fascinating. All the good that you have the letters. I admire that you have done some positive work with a performance and talks. Well done indeed. I have letters from my uncle, who died at the hands of the Japanese. I suspect that at some point you and me are going to have a good chat about these things.

Letsavagoo Could you provide the name of your relative? My reason for asking is as I have explained previously. I want to trace Hyson Green soldiers.

25 years old. Not a time to die. His burial site is different to where he was originally interred. It was a war grave issue, and I am sure he was treated with the utmost respect into his final resting place. I do not know that cemetery but I know that area in some considerable depth. The cemetery and his date of death are intriguing. December 1915 on that line of the Somme was quiet, and had been since the trenches were dug. That he was buried in a church yard indicates that he died before the mass casualty facilities were developed. It is highly likely that on that t

The "new" Berridge was where my mother, sadly now gone, was head cook for many years. I will try and dig out some more when I am next in Nottingham. Steve Tunnicliffe is nearing 60, (I am too, at 56) Last saw him and his delightful wife* at my Mum's funeral. Steve is shorter than me but I could consider him to be stocky. It would fit. That said I am built like a racing snake. I cannot remember a Gordon Tunnicliffe. Certainly not my branch of the family. My grandfather was originally from Burton on Trent, and before his death, my Dad talked very much about the family t