Commo

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  2. The Old Market Square

    in Nottingham City Centre

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    Hopes were on Long Row as on Ian's photo, just up from Yates and before Pearsons. They were eventually taken over by a national chain as Ian mentions, can't recall the trading name before it apparently became Just Pants Plus, after I had been exiled to The North!

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  5. Radford Great War

    in Old Radford

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    At the present both my Grandfather and his brother are shown with The Fallen on the Remembrance board in St Peters, Radford and will be united with all of the Nottingham heroes who fell defending our country and democracy in the Great War. I will have to make a pilgrimage to the new Memorial.

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  6. Royal baby

    in + Av Yer Say +

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    It has been reported that the virtue signalling mother was to raise the poor child as both gender fluid and vegan, but thank goodness that HRH thought that vegan was unacceptable for the Royals, though why she seems to have said nothing about the other idiocy is puzzling.

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  11. Newark and its history

    in County of Nottinghamshire Chat

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    I seem to recall being told that it was known as Red Gutter. It was the Battle of Stoke Field in June 1487, the last major battle in The Wars of The Roses, some two years after the Battle of Bosworth Field, and was

    when the rebel Yorkist forces were routed by the far larger royalist army, with just about 100 fatalities suffered by the royalists but an estimated 4000 of the Yorkists killed within three hours.

     

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  12. Water Meters

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Inspired by your question Carni, I decided that as there is just me in the house, my bill of £770 for the next year seems excessive and rang Yorkshire Water last week who reckoned I could be paying about £400 with a meter, with two years to change my mind if it doesn't actually work out to my advantage. I requested one fixing and they are arriving on 23rd May to check if one can be fitted.

    Call me cynical, but why would a privatised company suggest that I have a meter if they are losing money by installing one?

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  13. Jazz Club on Heathcoat Street

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    Having posed the question to the fount of all knowledge on the Nottingham jazz scene, my brother, he also cannot recall any jazz venue in that area so the consensus is that there was no such club or if there were then it must have been very exclusive!

    David, my brother and nephew wonder if they would know your brother , as it is a pretty tight community and most folk are known to each other.

     

     

  22. Old Streets of Nottingham

    in Web Sites about old Nottingham

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    The Baptist church was ( and I think the building is still there ) on the corner of Alfred St North and Woodborough Rd and opposite the church, on the corner of Alfred St Central, was The Craven Arms. From this junction Alfred St North ran uphill to Mansfield Rd and downhill to St Ann's Well Rd at Commercial Square. The photo is taken from outside Bob's Spares, almost opposite Bullivant St which is still there and shows on the mapping supplied by Trevor. From this vantage point you are looking up Alfred St Central and if you were to turn 180 degrees you would be looking down towards Commercial Square although it could not be seen as the road turned slightly to the left as it went down to St Ann's Well Rd.

    Hopefully this clears up the confusion!

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