BulwellBrian

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  1. LMS No. 2555 was a Mathew Kirtley class 480 standard goods as rebuilt by Johnson. It was built by Dubs & Co in 1868 and withdrawn in Nov 1930. The engine would have been painted black with the background to the LMS logo in Red.
  2. The image of B12/3 61515 sets its time slot quite closely as it was numbered 61515 in Mar 1949 and withdrawn in Nov 1951.
  3. Lovely photo, I think its an outside framed Midland Railway Kirtley loco as rebuilt by Johnson.
  4. I used to smoke tobacco in many forms and costs depending on the state of the pocket! Benson & Hedges when i felt rich, Players No.6 when i wasn't. Big cigars and little cigars, and a curly pipe with Balkan Sobranie tobacco. I gave it all up in the mid 1970's and haven't touched any since. I hate the smell nowdays.
  5. Snouts & troughs come to mind again.
  6. I have never put money on a horse or bought a national lottery ticket or done a football coupon . Its a mugs game, I studied Statistics at college. The Grand National is just cruel.
  7. Even Opencast mining in the UK is expensive and profits limited due to the restoration costs. In many places abroad restoration is limited therefore cost lower.
  8. Coal output in the UK peaked at 287million tons in 1913. In 1946 Nottinghamshire produced 15million tons. Figures taken from the "Colliery Year Book & Coal Trades Directory" for 1947. I think that Nottinghamshire output increased under the NCB following Nationalisation. The most northerly Notts colliery was Harworth which still exists although mothballed.
  9. I made similar trips to Grantham but I was a little bit older.
  10. Is the railway line shown on the map the private line from Babbington Colliery via Newcastle Colliery, or have I got the wrong place entirely?
  11. My paternal grandparents were both left handed, it was weird visiting for a meal, the table was always set left handed.
  12. I certainly remember Redferns, it was on the side of a cut through from Ingram Terrace to Highbury Road, you could look into their yard as you walked by.
  13. Its all relative, When I lived in Nottingham the North started at Worksop and the South at Leicester. To my wife's family who lived in North London the North started in Watford (not even Watford Gap) and the South at the Thames. On a similar theme when I was a child in Bulwell if we went to the city centre we went down Nottingham, But my uncle who lived in Mansfield went up Notts.
  14. The 1st & 5th photo, The same lorry? Was not a Foden it was a Sentinel.
  15. I was at Highbury schools from 1947 to 1953, Firstly in the Infants school, the smaller building nearest to Albert Street, then in the Junior school, in the ground floor of the building nearest ? Northcote Street. I the escaped to High Pavement. My recollection of the infants school is that the hall was oblong with the classrooms off it on three sides. The factory was still working, it was a tannery and had a loud steam whistle that signaled the shifts.
  16. Gedling was the united nations pit in the 1960's.
  17. I was at school at High Pavement at Bestwood. Some damage to the art room wall. Also the railway bridge at Bulwell Market station was damaged.
  18. The GWR loco's valve gear was between the frames, not so easy for maintainance.
  19. I remember seeing the 1947 floods, from the River Leen, in Bulwell Main Street. I was 5 at the time. There is a Marker in the wall at Trent Bridge showing the flood level.
  20. The LD&ECR came into it's own after ww1 when the new deep collieries were sunk. My local garage has a clock inscribed LD&ECR but it is a reproduction. It was indeed an interesting railway, all its locos were tank engines, 0-6-0T, 0-6-2T, 0-4-4T and 0-6-4T. They all lasted to the LNER and a few came to BR. BBrian.
  21. Methane is lighter than air so in still conditions it will collect in roof cavities. Carbon Dioxide is heavier than air and will collect in depressions including caves again if the air is still.
  22. The four way junction to the south west was the site of the "Marble Arch" under the railway and discussed elsewhere on the forum. The new site for High Pavement Grammar School was in the semi circle of Gainsford Crescent.