LizzieM

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  3. Nottingham WW2

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    I was born in 1949 so well out of it thank goodness but my Mum worked in a Munitions factory somewhere in Nottingham and my Dad was at the ROF serving his apprenticeship until a month before his 21st birthday and then went into the RAF in December 1942. Dad was ill in bed at home on Devonshire Promenade, Lenton, when Nottingham was bombed and said he remembers nothing about it. He had pleurisy apparently. My uncle, Dad's brother, was in the RAF from the start of the war but was discharged because he developed epilepsy. He then worked 'on the land' but had an epileptic fit at Gamston and fell face down into mud and suffocated and died aged 24, poor guy. My parents met in 1946.

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  11. Heathrow to East midlands

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Oh and obviously another alternative would be the train up to Nottm, if you can be bothered humping bags from Heathrow Express, to taxi or underground train, to St Pancras and onwards. Much easier on t'bus. If you have a morning flight back to the States then there isn't a train departing Nottm early enough to get you to LHR in time.

  14. Heathrow to East midlands

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    We fly from LHR several times a year and while we've lived in Nottingham for the last almost 10 years there's never been a flight from EMA to LHR. It's either drive or National Express bus, probably costing around £40 return (I haven't used it for 3 or 4 years so not sure of cost) You can fly from Heathrow to Manchester and Newcastle but that would be of no benefit.

  17. Shippo's Oss

    in 60's Nottingham

    Posted

    Ah, weren't they lovely? I remember seeing those lovely animals around the streets of Basford when I worked there in the 60's and 70's. I got the same thrill seeing the Notts Police horses around the city ...... what a pity they're no more too.

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  18. North or South

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    Paul, this is a difficult one for me to answer. Watford Gap has, I thought, always supposedly been the dividing line between North and South ......

    I spent my first 25 years living in Notts, not far out of the city. Then the next 30 years in village and market town locations in Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. Been back in Nottingham CITY for almost 10 years.

    I've been equally happy wherever I've lived but to be honest in the places 'down south' I would meet more friendly people I knew while out shopping etc. than I do out and about around Nottingham - but then again, it's not easy to hear English being spoken in Nottingham these days :( I've never found folk down there unfriendly at all. Go into London and it's different again, nobody will strike up a conversation. If I have to live in a city anywhere in the UK then Nottingham has to be the one.

    I've never lost my Nottingham accent, even though I'm married to a southerner and my kids speak with a southern accent. I've never had a 'broad Nottingham' accent in any case.

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  19. Annoying Habits ( of people )

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    #33 Catfan,

    There are some men who can't park properly in supermarket car parks too you know!!! In fact some of them park in most inconvenient places waiting for whoever is doing the shopping so that they don't have to strain themselves walking the whole way to the car!!! Not even at the designated "pick up points" as they are obviously too far from the door!

    You can tell when a man has parked in a supermarket car park because they reverse into a space, then they can't get the shopping into the boot easily.

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