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And I'll say it again there are many my age who are not
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Oh yes I did September 2003 - September 2005
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Pub long gone - Horse and Tembit
Bubblewrap replied to Jeff Handley's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Wasn't there some work being carried out on Convent earlier this year where they found a cellar ? -
Pub long gone - Horse and Tembit
Bubblewrap replied to Jeff Handley's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
The H&T in Weekday Cross was there in the 1740s -
Pub long gone - Horse and Tembit
Bubblewrap replied to Jeff Handley's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
And this goes to prove another thing pub closures are not a recent "problem" in 1877 the year Nottingham was expanded to take in the likes of Radford, Basford etc the town had close on 600 pubs/beer houses by 1950 this had come down to 360 -
Pub long gone - Horse and Tembit
Bubblewrap replied to Jeff Handley's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
That answers one thing as I've mentioned the H&T appears in my 1898/99 directory but it does not appear in Kelly's of 1916 -
Pub long gone - Horse and Tembit
Bubblewrap replied to Jeff Handley's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
I can go back as far as 1832(White's directory)& the Horse & Trumpet was there at that date. -
Pub long gone - Horse and Tembit
Bubblewrap replied to Jeff Handley's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
And he lives in Somerset -
Pub long gone - Horse and Tembit
Bubblewrap replied to Jeff Handley's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
I've been back to 1899 & there was a Horse & Trumpet 49 Beck Street Landlady Mrs L Spencer Wrights directory 1898/99 -
Pub long gone - Horse and Tembit
Bubblewrap replied to Jeff Handley's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Could be Horse & Trumpet? I've gone back to 1940 in my directories & can find no reference plenty of horses but no Trumpet -
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Lots of photos of the Basford area where I live the ex GNR & GCR railways are long gone but traces still survive
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Hey Merthyr Imp have you been raiding my bookcase?
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I have the last four books
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What about the "Birmingham" accent? How can three million people have a speech impediment ?
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What's it's name Roger Rover? Fido?
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Like the trike Roger
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Where there's a will there's a relative
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I think Notingham's better qualified than Liverpool or Hull
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Land of green ginger Hul
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Pronouncing place names (and how to eat food politely)
Bubblewrap replied to letsavagoo's topic in Nottingham Lingo
There's a village near Loughborough called Cotes it's an anagram of Tesco -
Waking up each morning fit and healthy
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Personally I don't care I just like Nottingham where it just far enough from that shit hole.....London
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They had Titanic Plum Porter Grand Reserve(6.5%) this afternoon One of the best dark beers I've had for quite some time
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Try the station Hotel in Hucknall or The Lion in Basford