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Batman is alive & well & living in Gotham I know for I have seen his sign on the South Notts bus company clock(stopped). Although I have never seen him.

There was another "Horse & Groom" it was at the corner of Parliament Street & Glumber Street it became "The Corner Pin" This is on a map dated 1881

I remember a whale on a large trailer in Loughborough some time in the 70s it was parked in a cinema car park(now beacon bingo)

Been on the allotment today for the first time in a week. Anyone else got an allotment?

Not been in the area for over forty years but try off of the recreation ground on Burton Road(if it is still there or off of Shearing hill/site of Gedling station?

The "Mapperley" tunnel was closed on 3/4 April 1960 & with it Daybrook & Gedling stations. The whole section of track from Leen Valley Junction to Gedling colliery also closed. Any goods traffic off the GN/GC sections were re-routed via Victoria Station,Weekday Cross, Netherfield Junction& Colwick North. thus having to reverse into Colwick yard. I was the regester lad at Colwick North box for about 18 months in 1965/66 I also "walked" Mapperlet Tunnel it must have been 1963 or 1964 before I left school in 1965.

I once caught a supermarket trolley & an old bike tyre.

In my collection of "Nottingham" stuff I have a book entitled "Co-Operation in Nottingham" By F.W. Leeman. (Nottingham Co-Operative Society Limited 1863-1944)

It's so nice to be popular? So some one don't like Nottingham I don't think this "person" has been within a hundred miles of the place or maybe his/her mother in law comes from Nottingham. But I could write much the same thing about Birmingham ( If the world had piles that's where they'll be)

Of course if "one is posh" you would call it "Horseington Street"

The original Windmill shut some time in the mid 60s the "new" windmill opened in 1966 as a replacement. According to Douglas Whitworth in his book Nottingham Pubs

I think people are talking about two sererate things here ther was certainlt a cable worked wagon way from Gedling Colliery to Mapperley Plains (for coal (NOT SLAG)There ia an article about this in ""Railway Bylines" Volume 6 Issue 11 October 2001 But not to be confused with the aerial worked cableway that tipped the slag onto the slag heap.

The slag heaps at Gedling Colliery were visable from both my junior school(Westdale Lane) & secondry schools(Gedling secondry, Wollaton Ave). I wold often watch the ropeway working from the class rooms............................................No wonder I was a failure.

Yes BUT people still vote the b*****s in, the ones who agreed for the demolition of the Black Boy & it's replacement with a concrete monstrocity should have been punished...............................................................................Severly!

A more recently published book also by Douglas Whitworth. Nottingham Then & Now(in colour) ISBN 978 0 7524 6318 6 £12 99 Hard back Available from Waterstones Some nice photos of how things were & some of the "improovements?" that were put in their place.

I was thining of running a campaign to get Loughborough twinned with Legoland.

I still remember the Flying 'oss as a pub But it is not all bad the Watson Fothergill building (can't remember it's title) on the corner of King Street is still there The old Boots shop is still on the High Street & the Building that used to be the Dog & Bear on High Street is there although I wish it still served Bass instead of coffee.

Not a lot .There again I presume the same Question was being asked in 1928/9 after the "new" council house/market place was opoened &I think in about 60 years time when the powers that be decide to renew it again the same questions will be asked. But I DO! miss the Gent's more that any thing

I have a map dated May 1953 & it was the Bowling Green then

As I havn't lived in Nottingham for overe 40 years & only look at it through a "visitors" eyes I think on the whole Nottingham has somewhat improoved. I do like the area round "slab Square"/wheeler Gate being almost traffic free. I visit Nottingham at least once a fortnight & always enjoy my stay. One parting shot I still miss Victoria Station

The bridge photoed is actually over Burton Road. It carried the Ex GNR(LNER) line fron Colwick yard to Gedling Colliery But prior to 1960 the line carried on to Daybrook & Derby(Friargate)

There was certainly an airial cableway with buckets at Gedling colliery but the one I remembey only carried "slag"(waste)to the tip. I used to live on Welbeck Avenue(1953-67) off Westdale Lane & I cold see the cableway from my bedroom window

It was next to number 12 so one may assume it was numer 10

I don't think so something made me think of Skills on Alfreton Road or Gee-Dees when they were on Goosegate or another toy shop also on Goosegate or was it Hockley? Was Beatties there in the late50s or earl 60s I'm thinking more early 50s

I will be going on the "walk" over the remains of the southern portion of the line on Sunday (1st April)