BulwellBrian
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The Grimsby to Immingham tramway had tram pinch signs on the road into Grimsby, this was were the single track had passing loops.
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I had the pleasure of going to Highbury Infants School and then the Junior School but not the Senior School. The Infants was closed when Cantrell Road School was opened (must have been about 1950/1 as my Brother went there). I also went to the 6d rush at the Highbury Cinema. There were two shops on Albert Street, the top shop and the bottom shop, they were both on the right hand side going down the hill. I think there was a murder or something at the bottom shop while I was at the school. The school caretaker lived in a house between the school & the factory. The factory had a steam hooter that sounded at shift changes. The infants & Junior schools were mixed but the senior school was boys only & the boys came from all over Bulwell including Bulwell Hall Estate. At the end of school there was a trolley bus standing off the wires outside the cinema but showing 44 Bulwell Hall Estate on the blind, this was to take the boys home.
The Methodist Church was built by the Primitive Methodists.
One thing I remember is that the Infants school was used as a polling station for elections and we got a days holiday, the ballot boxes were collected at the close of the poll by a city transport double-deck bus with a policeman standing an the platform, it had to reverse all the way down the street.
Memories from the late 1940's early 1950's so apolgies for any errors.
Brian.
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A few comments about the coal industry in which I worked for 35 years.
The coal industry was being run down for many years before nationalization and this continued under the NCB/BCC.
Any extractive industry to continue has to provide for continuing production out of current income or else it has to borrow more money thus worsening the economics of the industry. Many colleries couldn't do this.
The best coal for mining was worked first, costs increased with the workings getting further from the shafts and from less favourable seams being worked.
The NCB couldn't fund the developments of new collieries or the spending of money on devlopments at many collieries without borrowing from the Government. This borrowing was limited by Government.
There was a hidden subsidy of the industry by the CEGB paying more for NCB coal than the price it could import coal.
It was a good job the house coal and railways markets reduced in the 1950's & early 1960's as the large coal they required would not have been there. Mechanised mining could not produce the large coal, the machines chewed it up. Trepanners were better than shearers for large coal.
There was a continual conflict between production and selling. Production wanted tonnage Marketing wanted quality. In many seams the roof was difficult and the floor was soft, the machine worked better with a layer of coal left in the roof and tended to dip cutting into the soft floor, result less coal more dirt. In some seams the coal left in the roof was good quality the bottom coal was poorer.
Inherently the quality of the coal was better at some collieries was better than at others, this affected the profitability of the individual collieries.
These are just musings of an elderly man who has found the industry to be a most interesting one to have worked in. I worked in the Scientific Dept at Cinderhill Laboratory for 10 years, I did basic underground training at Hucknall No.1, and also went underground for sampling purposes at Babbington, Bestwood, Calverton, Cotgrave, Gedling, Hucknall, and Linby, and in addition to the surface of those collieries and also Clfton, Radford, Wollaton, Moorgreen, Pye Hill, and Selston.
I then worked for the Midland Region Marketing Dept, at Eastwood Hall for five years. followed by 20 years in the HQ Marketing Deartment at Hobart House in London, where I was involved in the pricing of coal and the proceeds from selling the coal. While in the Marketing Department I had dealings with the CEGB, the Energy Ministry, Coalite & Rexco, the Domestic & Industrial coal trade, and all of the coalfields in the UK.
Brian.
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I am pretty sure they went through the washers while on the wires. They were well insulated after all they ran in the rain. the washer would only have reached the top of the sides.
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Does 578 survive? If it is a 6 wheeler then it is not at Sandtoft (so far as I am aware). The 6 wheeler that is there is either 504 or 506 - I can't remember which without looking at a pictrure.
504, 506, & 578 were all 6-wheelers. The 6-wheelers were numbered 500-601 (KTV 500 to KTV601), 500-524 were 8'0" wide and were usually found on routes 39 & others, while 525-601 were 7'6" wide and used on routes 43 & 44 & others.
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Just a comment from a pedant, it was NER not GER locos that were in the old York Museum. Fletcher & Tennant 2-4-0's, Booch 0-6-0. "Gladstone was also there.
I visited in the mid 1950's. I also visit Clapham, there were buses & trams as well as trains.
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Also Jubilee 45700 "Britannia" being renamed "Amethyst" when 70000 was built.
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I may be completely wrong but I have vague memories of showmens caravans behind a high fence on the left hand side of Main Street going towards Hucknall just before you get to Moorbridge.
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The 36 certainly did turn round in the junction with Vernon Road, there was plenty of room and very little traffic.It was cut back to Valley road in the very late 1940's or more probably the early 1950's. I remember seeing them turn when I was small. When was the Island at the Vernon Road / Nottingham Road junction put in? The trollies couldn't turn if it wasn't there.
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Re #604, I thought the 41 went up London Road not Arkwright Street. Am I remembering wrongly?
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Both the trips to Birmingham and to Millers Dale would have been from the Midland Station.
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Route 35 which ran from Bulwell Market to the Northern Cemetery on Hempshill Lane was operated by a single decker until the overbridge for the Bennerley railway was removed. The 35 operated on Saturday & Sunday afternoons.
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Both tunnels under the Robin Hood hills were filled with colliery waste. The Midland Railway one had to be cleared out for the Robin Hood Line.
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I recall seeing a garratt coming down the high level line at Trent, again in the 1950's.
I also visited Crewe works in 1958 and looking to see if we could find any remnants of the last garratt.
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You can see Garratts regularly on the Welsh Highland Railway in North Wales, 2'0" gauge ex South Africa. Pretty big though.
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I was born in early December, I went to High Pavement aged 10 two months before my eleventh birthday, I was always one of the youngest in the class.
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My twin sons bought me a new all singing and all dancing mobile for my birthday but I cannot get the hang of it, I much prefer my old one that cost £20 which included £10 of calls, at least I know what that one is doing.
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I remember Steggles shop on Main Street, I was regularly sent there for a pork pie as my mother considered them much better than Haywoods on Highbury Road.
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I vaguely recall that a lightning lost its ventral fuel tank on taking off from Hucknall and that the tank landed and bounced on Nottingham Road spraying fuel around. Am I right or am I dreaming?
I do remember the Ambassador flying around and also the VC10.
Other planes I recall are a Meteor and a Spitfire that often flew around together, also a Lincoln with a Conway engine in the nose, the Canberra that crashed into the Railway at Bulwell Common, the Vulcan that crashed at Syston, and I think it was an Avro Ashton. The noise of them testing jet engines was a common one.
Visitors I can remember was a Boeing 707 with President Kennedy on board, he was heading for Chatsworth to visit the grave of his ?brother. Also a Caravelle when passenger jets were rare.
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My father worked for Alexander Sloan & Co which was part of the GUS empire. The shop was on Carrington Street.
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I have pointed out before that the wagon works company name was William Rigley & Sons.
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The trolley bus conductors used to call out "the fountain" for the bus stop long after it had been demolished.
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I understood that the reason for building the canal through Nottingham was the shallowness of the river. Barges came down the river into the canal and back to the river at Trent lock from where they could go towards Leicester or Derby or the Trent & Mersey canal or the Erewash Valley Canal.
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Looks like a Midland Railway 0-6-0 running tender first.
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I understand that the car could detect that the steering was not being used, this would be immobilized if the car was on rollers.