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The trains were also good if a train had a buffet car on and on it's way alcohol could be served whatever the time.

My mother & her 3 sisters & her brother would giver grandma some much as a saving for Christmas in the late 50s/early 60s. As people got better wages the didlum stopped.

If you keep pulling that face it'll stop like it.(My Mother/Father) So that's why I'm an ugly so 'n' so.

One of the joys of travel in those"far off" days was going about the country & finding a pub that was allowed to stay open longer in the afternoon or open earlier in the morning usually on market days On certain days in the Stratford area of London you could drink from 5.30A.M. till the aerly hours of the following da,. not that I did but you could get a pint whenever you wanted one.

I can renenber the pubs closing every day at 2.30

How about a "Bouncer" for "Mothercare"? Or a "Thistle cutter" at a Nudest colony

What decorators in while the pub was still serving who put up the new paper?

A Chinese dentist Two Thirty

An old friend(not seen for years) said he came from Mori-com bay.(not Nottinghamshire)

I am only really interested in the city and places such as Gedling,Carlton & Arnold(some relitives lived there)thank you. As mentioned before I lived in the Carlton/Gedling area untill I was 19 & am one or two maps of that area missing.

I have a book tiled "early Coal-Mining Around Nottingham 1500-1650 By Richard.S.Smith.ISBN 1 85041 023 2 and covers mainly coal mining around Wollaton.

Yes it is on both maps 112 & 121 as there is on over lap.

A wringer out for a one armed window cleaner;) My first proper job was a signal box lad on the railway at Colwick. Sorry this should have been in the 60s bit. first job 1965

More diggin' & weedin' yesterday I must get the allotment in good order before Friday as I am "off" to see mother for about a week if went for any longer the weeds would take over

If your "local" print shop does not have a scanner which can cope you are not to far from Loughborough so you could come here. The print shop(not open Sat & Sun) is opposite "Beacon Bingo" about 10 minuets walk from the railway station. If you have to wait there are one ore two nice pubs close.

Sizes of paper. A O is a full sheet. A1 is A O cut in half. A2 is A1 cut in half A3 is A2 cut in half & so on. A ream of paper is 500 sheets of A4.

A 0 is counted as a "Full" sheet of paper. The size of your usual note pad is A4. A 0 is the size of 16 sheets of A4 Therefore the scanner/copier can copy any map/chart up to that size as long as they are NOT in a book. ! have copied maps measuring 28"x40" (cost about £3.50) This is a photo copy so there is no loss of detail. P.S. all the maps I have copied are over 50 years old so there are no problems with copyrite

Wollaton colliery was sunk in 1873/4 I presume that Gate Street,Vane Street & Leavers Street were built at the same time talking to my mother some time last year one of her uncles was the last residents of Radford Woodhouse before the area was demolished in 1974? I understand Wollaton & Radford were connected underground. P.S. I am off to see my mother this week end so I think a long talk is required.

A colliery I forgot about ........Trowell. Trowell colliery is shown on an Ordnance map 112 dated 1950 but is shown as closed in i962. The site of Trowell is/was just south of Trowell services on the M1 where it crosses the railway (Trowell branch, Radford Junction-Trowell)

My mothers nee name was Clifton Grandmothers nee name Radford. On my fathers side the family name is Smith(common;)) other grandmother's nee name was Bishop.( both born around 1900.) My Mother is the yongest of six the oldest Doris is 100 in two weeks time My father(died 1992) was the eldest of three We lived on Burton Road Carlton till I was three then on Welbeck Avenue till I was nineteeen The Clifton grandparents names were Walter & Elizabeth. The Smith Grandparents names were Stanley & Ethel Fathers was known asStanley(First name John)as grandfather.

I know you can't put these on the screen BUT................ my local print shop can photo copy up to size 0 price about £3 50

This map I also have & it is dated 1915 sorry it is too large to scan.

Bit late on picking up on this I have maps of bits of Radford dated 1881/2 & the whole of Radford in the earliy 1950s My roots are Radford Both 0f my Mothers parents were born on Gate Street Radford Woodhouse(1887) my mother was born Guthrie street(1929) & moved shortly afterwards to Middleton Street my father was born Dulwich Road(1926 - d1992)

No problems with photo copies as most maps are out of copyrite.

By scanning or photographing & putting on a small screen a lot of detail would be lost. Reducing from two & a half feet square( the 1880s maps are larger) to a small screen would not do the maps justice. I am on pension credits & can't afford a large format scanner or the lens for my camera to do a worth while job. But I can get photo copies and bring them to Nottingham if people know exactly what they want. Price 1950s maps £2.50 each 1880s maps £3 50 each