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Beefsteak: I see what you mean!

Just had a note from a friend who now lives in France. He used to insert the largest bangers he could find into cow pats.

It's the same game as the model teacher but with a robot and different answers. I had the Robot as a kid but I now have the teacher version.

There's some now about in that picture!

Found it: year 1900 and this is the accident report: http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/BoT_Basford1900.pdf

I was reading about a crash at that site recently - been trying to find the article but can I heckaslike find it. I can't remember where I read it but I do remember that it involved a goods loco backing in to the sidings and a southbound local hitting the goods loco. No serious damage and obviously not the crash to which you refer. I have asked around but no-one seems to know anything about your particular prang.

I used to do that too. It must be some kind of hankering for the night before. Last year I found a spent rocket cascase by the roadside on my way to work. I stuck the stick in the ground by the fenceline and said hello to it everyday as I walked past - daft or what?!

I'd forgotten about air bombs - how could I forget those?

I remember when fireworks were fun. Shortly before Bonny night the shops would begin to display the fantastic and colourful boxes of fireworks. Inside they had displays from which you could buy fireworks individually and build up your collection until the big night arrived. Brands such as: Standard Benwell Astra Lion Brocks You could buy fantastic bangers in different sizes such as the penny banger, the cannon or the 3-2-1-zero. We made banger guns out of a piece of conduit pipe, bunged up at one end with a piece of wood. Light banger, insert fizzing end first and follow with a ball

Chip bags. Hornby Dublo three rail trains. Penny bangers.

Living in the far north of Scotland we still get batches of frozen washing on a regular basis in winter.

Admit it - you're blind aren't you <g>

Then it must be at the site of the former carriage sheds on the GCR in Basford?

The fishing tackle shop on Hyson Green [Late 60s/early 70s] used to have a milk vending machine outside the shop for anglers who couldn't get to the shop during opening hours. Instead of milk in he cartons it had Maggots in them. If I remember correctly, it cost two bob for a pint carton.

Children with minnows and sticklebacks in a jam jar with a string handle.

Blimey dgbrit - you started young!

Do that today and the lamp will be gone before you get back into the house! My dad used to have a small paraffin lamp to put under the sump of his Trojan Diesel so that it would not freeze overnight.

Good old Segs - saved many a pair of shoes for another day. Absolutely essential when you are from a poor family.

Whatever happened to that I wonder?

I have four Zippos - a classic design. Anyone remember the Imco triplex lighter? (2 photos)

Shipstones Ales. Anagram: honest p*ss sale.

Screw top pop bottles - I seem to remember a brand called 'Sunecta' in Notts. and of course 'Apollo' from the Home Brewery.

Petrol cigarette lighters [except Zippo].