Bubblewrap

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  1. About ten minuets walk from where I live.
  2. Ian this kind of thing can be very divisive & should be discouraged?
  3. Monday 7th February 1949 at 10.30 am Highbury Vale hospital
  4. Three arrested two from Birmingham & one from Nottingham (Radford)
  5. Don't haggis have one set of legs shorter than the other so it is easier to run round the hills
  6. There's nothing wrong with the castle as a museum , the grounds are very good too & the view over the meadows is splendid. But castle? so OK that's what it's always been called but I think it's not a good title for it .
  7. Nottingham Castle? Surely the most misnamed building in the country & can be disappointing to visitors who have not seen it before?
  8. Some people, ? Some times it makes me wonder who "brought them up" I have seen people throw rubbish down when there is a bin ten feet away from them.
  9. I mentioned that Bobber's Mill Bridge was bad a lot of it is McDonald's packaging McDonald's being at the what was Wheatsheaf pub
  10. I'm quite well aware of that It can be off putting but not vitality important
  11. When using a "quote" why does the date come up as month first & day second ?
  12. And 16 months later I moved to Nottingham(Old Basford)
  13. William Felkin http://www.knittingtogether.org.uk/behind-the-scenes/the-people/william-felkin-1795-1874/
  14. Can't Robbie use the public baths?
  15. Leftover chocolate is a rarity in our house
  16. Ask about capstan full strength and save even more money
  17. IT was nine years last Sunday since I quit I was going through nearly 2 x 50 gram packs a week about £45 at today's prices
  18. Our cat"Marmite" turned up in our outside loo when we lived in Loughborough. We've had her for six years now
  19. Some young people don't realize there was a station there in the first place after all its more than fifty years since it's demise To have any real memories of Victoria station you have to be getting on for sixty
  20. Trent station main purpose was to enable people to change trains. Trains going directly to Sheffield missing Derby or trains from Sheffield to Leicester missing Derby would call at Trent & people could catch a train to Derby or Nottingham The closure & demolition of Victoria station + the closure of the whole Great Central was one of the greatest crimes that befell Nottingham
  21. Only those 33 robins round the town centre. http://www.hoodwinked2018.co.uk/