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If you look carefully it is a couple walking arm in arm.

What do you call the "transport" that takes women to the maternity hospital? A Blunderbuss.

I always thought I kennageroot was a Scotsman locked in a toilet.

British Railways Staff Association yes a club & they also organised sports(football, cricket etc) & games & the odd outing too. Most large(ish) rail centres had a BRSA.

My Grandfather(fathers side) played for Carlton Silver Band in the late 50s & through the 60s If I remember the uniforms were Black with Green sleeve cuffs & lapels.

St George didn't kill the "Dragon" anyway she only died a fortnight ago! At least it is believed that St Patrick did visit Ireland.

St George was almost certainly Greek & never set foot in England.

I have two lots of frogs spawn in the pond on my allotment.

Nottingham(somewhere in Canada/Australia ?)

Not the tax man nibbling at your wages then Compo?

£12.10s ! I see there is an address so was the order delivered too David.?

I always make my own compost I have two compost heaps down the allotment & a bin in the garden. At least this way I can assure the quality. . . . . . . . . And it's free....

Planted out nearly 200 potato plants Sunday - Tuesday Too windy for sowing seed yesterday so went to Nottingham.

Bought the book yesterday. It gives details of every known "Fothergill" building whether still standing or demolished. Details include who the building was put up for, who the builder was, what year it was built, what is it's present use.& gives a Ordnance Survey map reference. http://theworksofwatsonfothergill.weebly.com/ For any one interested in some of Nottingham's older buildings it is well worth the £17.99. P.S. Fothergill designed some buildings in in other places too Mansfield & Loughborough( Nat West Bank) for instance. P.P.S. I had a few pints in The Vat & Fiddle t

But this is why we got Radio One.

Sorry to be boring ...............again I have some maps dated 1881 of most of Hungerhill Gardens that even have the sheds/summerhouses & greenhouses shown.

I have a large collection of maps of Nottingham & Shire The number of clothing, knitwear, lace works & other clothing associated factories marked on them is amazing.(even in the city centre). The only problem is the names of these "factories" are not marked.

If you look above the shops(eg city information centre) on Smithy Row you can still see where the letters were for Burtons.

OLD? Me I'm only 64....................I'm still quite young.........................My wife says I'm 64 going on 13.

I have had a bus pass & senior citizens rail card for four years & both are in regular use. Both can be used as ID for other concessions. Although the rail card costs £28 two trips to see my mother(lives near Tywyn) & it pays for it's self. I use my bus pass at least once a week.(Mainly to visit Nottingham) I believe I can't use my bus pass(Leicestershire C.C.) on the trams.

Is it a Scottish horse Compo? :)

Looking at the photographs of the building of the GCR I often wonder what happened to all the spoil.?

Yes three of them & the stuff that was dug out where Carrington Station was too. The bit of the tunnel under Thurland Street was done cut & cover to lessen the risk to buildings such as the "Corn Exchange & Smiths Bank"(Watson Fothergill)

There would have been a lot of rock needed for infill for the viaducts through the meadows & what about Bulwell viaduct.

One small point the Charlotte Street/Mount East Street area in the 1890s was supposed to be the worst "slum area" in the town/city & the council wanted "rid"of it so the building of the GCR/GNR station saved them a problem. It is interesting to see some of what was taken out to build Victoria station I have some large scale maps (not all of the route) covering Basford to Wilford dated 1881. Over TWENTY public houses were demolished for the building of the Victoria station.