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Post# 1 If I am right there will be a gala of remembrance on or about the anniversary. I was watching a program called Grow it, Cook it, Eat it on BBC Wales last Sunday which is filmed in the area and it was mentioned.

Micky, I was working in the area (Brassington) at the time and remember the collapse well, They lost nearly 500 metres of an earth bank and had to start again. I often wonder whether the system generates electricity when the water is allowed to flow back down to the Derwent.

Micky like you say you are fairly well protected round here from lead in water. Most of the pipe has been down since Victorian times and is well limed up. It is only when it is disturbed that you can get a problem. S&T will give you a free new connection if you lay the new service yourself or at your own expense. Sometimes worth it if you live in a terrace as most have a shared service for which all occupants have a responsibility if anything go's wrong.

If your kettle furs up and you have a modern boiler you have a big expensive problem in the making especially if its a combi boiler. Both the main heat exchanger and the secondary plate heat exchanger (in combi's) can suffer badly with lime scale as the space for the water to flow between the heated plates is so small. Depending on where you live and the make of boiler you are looking anywhere between £200 and £450 to replace one or the other. You could go for a power flush British Gas £450 or so anyone else from £250. I always fit a electrolytic scale reducer to give whole house protection

Things have changed in the last number of years. Once upon a time most of Nottingham's water was pumped up from the bunter sandstone layer. Now that is just one source another main source is from the Derwent via the ressa to the west of the M1 between junctions 25 & 24. It draws its water from the Derwent just above Derwent Mouth where it enters the Trent. To help in times of shortage there was a large ressa built near Carsington in Derby's, water was pumped up from the Derwent just before you get to Whatstandwell to fill the ressa with the idea it could be let back down and then flow t

By the way it's Billy Bacon's field. I new Neil his grandson.

This one's easy it's a beautiful...........................................spiders web.

I have a long held belief that before they broadcast the weathermen at the BBC & ITV collude with each other. "Now then Fred what are you forecasting tonight?" "Well Roger I thought I give heavy rain for tomorrow, and you what are you going to forecast?" "Right Fred I will forecast light showers with maybe some sunny spells" One of em is going to be nearly right, so they can then claim they have a 50% success rate.

#1 bet the soot went to gardeners, seem to remember piles of soot on allotments back in those days.

What's needed is a Hadrill or Green, either of those two would sort it out in a flash. Hadrill was not as free with the cane as Green but he was very good with it. I had 3 on each hand and could only find one mark on each (no writing that day).

Nice to see a split cane rod and a centre pin reel. Don't see tackle that that these days.

A friend of mine was a postie who used to work at the V.S. The lifts were certainly hydraulic in his day.

Don't know about all the tech'i stuff I was just getting twitchy with withdrawal symptoms.

Did you leave them a message to that effect. Some of them are actually classed has being reopened, though not the Plough

The freezer has mainly taken over from preserves but SWMBO still makes chutney and relish. At this time of year the freezers (2 of them) are full with runners beans, calabrese and courgettes in cheese sauce, cauliflower the same, plus baby leeks. Then there's the home made tomato soup and pureed tomato. In the shed theres over a hundred weight of main crop spuds and in the lean to there are strings of red and white onions and shallots. Containers of salad leaf are just about ready to go in the greenhouse. There's 20 odd spring cabbage plus curly kale growing ready for winter All grown at

I don't know if this has been mentioned before. Whilst looking for a local pub name from my youth I came across this site. www.closedpubs.co.uk/Nottingham It contains a list of now dead pubs some with photographs and may well be of interest to some people. There is also one for Nottinghamshire.

My mate TK reckons there should be a black dustbin along with all the other colours and they just pop you in that for disposal. Colin

Saw my mate today about the Ellis photograph. There was no cadet corps or anything like that at Ellis. One thought is that it maybe out of school hours, maybe set up by one of the teachers after all they were mostly ex-service men at that time. From the angle of the shot one would think that it would have to be taken from a plane and that would have to have been organised to. Colin

Have you ever thought as the years go by ..........the time will come when you've got to die. They put you in a wooden box ...........and cover you over with stones and rocks. The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out ........................they crawl in thin .............and crawl out stout. Yer skin turns green ....................and yer marrow rots .............yer bones get twisted into knot's. Yer eyes fall in ...................and yer teeth fall out ..........................yer brains come slitherin down yer snout. And now my story I have related I think I'd sooner be .........

Two photos that mean something to me. I was in the Boys Brigade 14th company based at the church at the time the photo was taken. Later when first wed I lived over a shop on the corner of Middleton Street and Salisbury Street. Happy days on two counts. Colin

After reading the above I realise just how lucky I am, I still have my lovely wife, my son 38 now is a well rounded man. Yes both my parents are dead, dad died after a short illness at 82, mum the same at 93, both had a good and long life so my grief was tempered. Good luck in your new life Pixie I am sure you are doing the right thing, after all neither your friend or your father would want you to be so sad. Colin

I can find plenty of mentions of a 50kg 'flower pot' bomb, in fact one was dropped on the RAC headquarters in London. But nowhere can I find a description, maybe someone else will have better luck. Colin

When I went up the Mansfield ramper today it was Goose Fair weather, light rain with a good mist. Must be on special order. Colin

Ellis play ground brings back some memories had many a fag behind those shelters. I have a mate who was there at Ellis at the time the photograph was taken I will ask if he remembers anything about cadet corps etc. Colin

Re #36, will I get compo if I break me teef on the chip when eatin me chicken? Colin