BulwellBrian

I think the card might be from a painting. I also think that the loco is LMS 6100 "Royal Scot" before rebuilding, it got the bell when it visited the USA. It is also shown with a Stanier tender. Didn't the unrebuilt Patriot class retain Fowler tenders? The train is also passing over water troughs in either Cumbria or Scotland. Note the spray under the tender. If it is from a painting, the artists name might be on the back of the card. Nice picture.

The push chair (item 161) is actually on the kiss gate footpath at Bulwell Common, see a photo in almost the same position.

The line through Daybrook was very busy before Mapperley tunnel was closed. The train going through the "rat hole" would almost certainly have gone through Daybrook before the tunnel closure. Very few freight trains went through the rat hole then, they were going to Colwick.

I didn't enjoy my time at High Pavement, I wasn't the best of pupils, I didn't work very hard, but I came from a working class home where study was not done, but in retrospect I learned a lot at the school and ended up in quite a good job that I could not have expected in any other way. The grammar schools certainly enabled some working class people to better their situation, but of course the rest at secondary moderns were not so fortunate. There were some excellent teachers at HP in the 1950's, Mr Crossland & Mr Dunn (chemistry), Mr Thrasher & Mr Saaymans (physics), Mr Hill (Biolog

In the 3rd form, long trousers & no cap. 1955.

Ready for 1st day at High Pavement 1953, short trousers were required for the first form.

I don't know Mick, perhaps someone else knows. Having looked at my original image it dosn't look like it, it has a flat roof, Could it be an electricity sub station or a pumping station of some sort? I cannot go and look as I am somewhat disabled and now live a way away.

Yes. Same day, other side of the road.

Great site StephenFord but no 4 wheelers like this.

Silent death!

I think that behind the lorry was internal railway wagons, they were painted black. The pit tip was way behind the colliery and also beyond the GNR railway.

Its complicated, it was an old colliery started in 1842. By the 1950's the shafts near the road to Nuthall were working the deep seams, Deep Soft & Deep Hard. Further away from the road was another shaft known as the Cinderhill Shaft which went to the shallower seams, these workings ceased in the 1950's. Babbington workings eventually went to the north of the old Hucknall No 1colliery on the Watnall Road, Hucknall and the upcast shaft there was deepened and became Babbington No.7 shaft, it was used to ventilate the Babbington workings.

It is the colliery, officially called Babbington by the NCB.

Same day, same trolly, but the other side of the road. There were often floods at the island. Note my blue and white ford anglia. c.1966.

Over the Bulwell stone wall on the right was Basford Hall Miners Welfare.

Yes.

re. reply No. 41. Christchurch Turntable.

Cinderhill Terminus.

One of the important aspects of railway building was/is the balance of excavated material with embankment fill needed, any shortage or surplus presents extra problems of disposal of or finding extra material. Much more difficult in the 19th century than now.

Wonderful - more if you can please.

There was the material out of the tunnels as well.

I was wondering where the rock that came out of the Victoria Station hole went to. Presumably to the embankments near Wilford.

I am sure that Watkin, chaiman of the Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway (later the Great Central Railway) would have intentions for the London extension in 1881. He was also chairman of the Metropolitan Railway, the London Chatham & Dover Railway and the Channel Tunnel Compny. He had big ideas.

Not quite Compo, the medical place was down the road nearer to Bulwell the other side of the GNR (red brick) railway bridge. I went there as well. The labs were behind the big house opposite Bagnall Lane, much closer to Babbington colliery.

I started on £4 8s a week on 21 Sep 1959 at NCB No.6 Area Laboratories at Cinderhill as Grade STO 4.