NewBasfordlad

A good friend of mine lost his only son a few years back to something similar. He had just finished his first year at Nottingham High and was doing very well. On one Saturday he had just crossed the road near Lowdham roundabout to see someone outside the Magna Charta and dropped something in the road, without thinking he just turned round and bent down to pick it up. A car going slowly, it had just come round the turning struck his head, his life support was switched of 24 hours later. It ripped the heart out of the lads family and we found out later deeply affected the

Now you just keep away from the edge CF you wouldn't want to push your luck.........

These things bug me, the trousers that is, so have enlarge the picture, it is hard to tell without the original. But the guy third from the right I think has a different cap and cap badge, he also carries a Sgt Major stripes as does the guy next to him, there wouldn't be two Sgt Majors in a battery, finally he is missing the lanyard tucked in his left breast pocket. I reckon he is from a different unit on attachment.

Had a shock today. I was sat talking to my 15 year old granddaughter and she asked me about the book I was reading, I explained it was about the battle for Normandy in WW11 starting at D-Day. "D-Day" she asked, "yes" I said "The great invasion the led to the defeat of Germany in WW11, don't you do history?" "Oh yes" she says "We have just done WW11 from the .........................German perspective" You can imagine the discussion we had over the next hour, talk about twisting history. Pass me the gun....................

50th Battery RFA was indeed in Dewsbury at one time. In WW1 the RFA were responsible for the horse drawn medium artillery pieces including the 18 pounder so in the first picture your grandfather would be carrying his riding crop and who would not carry it like a swagger stick when having your picture took. Usually the leading horseman carried the crop for signalling to the rest of his teams riders the moves he was going to make just like the RHA King Troop. The RFA weren't as fast as the Royal Horse Artillery but their guns carried a lot more clout and there were more of them

Ian the ford is parked on ...............Hill Side that's the bridge over the Leen to the left

You may be right Margie most plants are programed by nature to procreate and you certainly get a boost in production as the season comes to an end or plants start to suffer for some reason. I used to know a gardener who would stress his runners by withholding water to kick them off, he said it worked but I have never tried it.

Would that be 'brass neck' CF

It would be way before your time Dave, my mate was 82 when he died two years ago and of course I am talking about his father.

^^^^^^^Glad my mate was right about his father and Triumph road then, I was beginning to doubt until you came along Dave. He always said his father was a gatekeeper but I know he was a sign writer as well, wonder if they did any of that there.

I got the facts wrong. During the battle for Normandy David Rinder was actually with a brigade of 3 tank regiments each regiment fielding 50 tanks and they needed 1073 replacement tanks just to keep 150 in the front line, Rinder himself had 3 shot out from under him. Not that he took the record Major Stanley Christopherson colonel to be came out of 5 in one day in the desert campaign.

Trogg there was a filling station on Valley road opposite the Futurist. But I also seem to remember a car dealership left hand side of Nottingham Road between Valley road and Vernon Road almost opposite the end of Scotland road.

As far as I know Cripp's had a heavy plant site on Triumph Road Lenton. The info I have is old as it came from a mate who's now dead talking about his father who was gate keeper there

Col, it's a very good job your here to put everyone right, when they are 'factually incorrect' but do tell me what make you so sure your always right, even I make the odd mistake, yes you heard it here folks NBL makes the odd mistake. By the way Col you never got back about Corbyn's anti Semitism, even Tom Watson as now stated 'Labour face's eternal shame' over anti-Semitism. Me I loved Mrs T, wish there was someone like here now the country needs it.

Started the onion harvest today, first half put to dry. Last years harvest provided onions for the year, a first for me just hoping for the same again. For gardeners these are Red Fen grown in revitalised MPC compost.

Col, Corbyn gives every impression of being highly anti semetic you may not like the fact but it stares most people in the face. As to large corporations stealing tax money that that could be seen as slander they do not steal they play by the rules as they are. Now these rules may well need changing but at this time they are the rules. I have been a tax payer all my life and at 72 am still paying taxes but as a self employed person different rules apply to me rather than PAYE and I have no hesitation in telling the world I will only pay what I have to. Not a penny more

Very simplistic Col but both of us know the colonisation of South Africa was much more complicated than that. The Dutch were the first to go there to establish a stop over and replenishment site for the Dutch East India Company 1652 what was to become Cape Colony. We followed and took over 1795 and from there until the early 20th century it changed hands several time. The Act of Segregation was introduce in 1909 by the first prime minister General Botha, don't sound very English do he. Wrong I agree but two wrongs do not make a right and both Gandhi and late

Puree for spag-bol and the like, and frozen individually and bagged for other uses.

'Tank Action' by David Render, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry. I knew David as an old comrade before his death last year and this is the story of his time with the regiment in Normandy and beyond. The regiment arrived at 'H' hour on D day and David joined them as a casualty battle replacement some 5 days later, he then fought from Bayeaux all the way through to Bremerhaven and the end of the war. Seeing how a tank commanders life expectancy was slightly less than two weeks and 90% of his comrades were to become casualties this was no mean feat and earned him the

Its 5 weeks late thanks to 'the beast from the east' but at last the tomato glut has arrived...........

Knew Neil Shacklock quite well, he of course owned Shacklock plumbing contractors

^^^^^^^^No not proper ones. When I did mine I started in Jan 62, but only signed in the September when they had decided I was suitable.Then five years, day release and two nights every week and went through every department on EMGAS including the offices, Basford works and sale showroom in town. Some of this you would never use again but when you passed out there was nothing you did not know about the production, transportation and use of gas. Now days its is all broke down into small lumps, everyone does basic gas safety and then it depends on what you want

And this of course the words whispered in the lady's ear. How could I resist the aroma of your perfume.................

Army club disco on a Saturday night, all the girls dressed to the nines, good times indeed

I remember when I last went on I could bring up a map of the area I wanted, enlarge it and the pictures were shown with pins. When you found the picture you wanted to view you just clicked on the pin. Now there is no map when I go there.