Merthyr Imp
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I wonder if it might be a Gilford.
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The squarial - produced by Sky TV's competitor British Satellite Broadcasting, I suppose in use around 20 years ago, when they offered a rival satellite TV system and using these things which were a lot less intrusive than Sky's original big round white dishes.
This surviving example can still be seen on a house in Merthyr Tydfil, and is clearly no longer connected up. I imagine they went out of use long ago .
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2 hours ago, MargieH said:
CliffTon, the tunnel I used to be scared in was the one BEFORE the one that went under Woodborough Road - it started soon after Woodthorpe Drive, went under near where the playground was (still is) and came out just before where the big flats are now. It wasn't that long, I suppose but still scary.
That must have been Ashwell's Tunnel, then - just 70 yards long.
There's lots about the railway on the following site, including a photo of that tunnel if you scroll well down:
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/sherwood/
We moved to Sherwood when I was aged 11 (in 1961) and I remember discovering what was left of the station - I think the overgrown platforms were still there (this was before the flats were built) - and did once walk through the tunnel under Woodborough Road.
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The last passenger train to use the line was a special train on June 16th 1951. Maybe that's what you saw, MargieH? I'm sure you were very little...
Goods trains could have been seen for a couple of months longer, but after that the only trains would have been for track removal.
There's a thread somewhere on this site about the line - it was known as the Nottingham Suburban Railway - and if I remember right included photos, or at least links to them, of that last passenger train.
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2 hours ago, DaveK said:
Hi Merthyr Imp. Miss Barker is in the middle photo and Miss Pope is in the bottom one. Mr Lowe was the headmaster and other teachers I remember were Mr Gibby, Miss Harvey, Miss Prossor and Mr Davies. There was also a blind piano teacher called Mr Saunders. I also remember we had a film club once a month which I think cost 2/6d. It was held in the new school hall in the playground which I believe is still there.
Mr Lowe was our class teacher in my last year at Blue Bell Hill so he must then have got promoted. He had a withered hand. Headmaster in my time was Mr S. P. Leigh (I remember his initials and name on his door!).
Yes, I remember the blind singing teacher who played the piano, but couldn't have told you his name.
Other teachers I remember were Mr Tennyson who also took the swimming, and Kay Woods who was my class teacher when I first started at the school - I think she later went to Hayward School.
The film club must have been after my time!
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Sorry, DaveK - don't recognise anyone. Us 10 and 11-year-olds just ignored the little kids!
Do you know the teachers names? I remember Miss Barker took the infants in my time, but I can't say whether either of them is her.
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instead of any photos all I'm seeing is a sort of grey No Entry sign.
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1 hour ago, Bubblewrap said:
My dad always accused me of playing silly buggers
That's all right - provided you don't let them win.
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It was originally a tram route of course. There's a map on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottinghamshire_and_Derbyshire_Tramways_Company
It mentions there the trams were known as the 'Ripley Rattlers', but an old chap I used to work with (well, he was in fact only aged 50 when I first knew him!) used to say they were called the 'Ripley Roarers'.
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DaveK - the off-licence on the corner of Crown Street was Marshall's shop. Karen Marshall is 5th from the left on the front row in that photo.
My mother's shop was next door - why didn't you get your sweets from us??? But we left there in about June 1961, so perhaps you're remembering from after that time. I think the people who took over our shop turned it into a café of some sort, but it wasn't successful.
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As part of the second Nottingham Festival in July 1971 a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's 'The Yeomen of the Guard' was staged in the Castle grounds. This was by the company called 'Gilbert & Sullivan For All', made up of a core of former D'Oyly Carte performers and who had staged a similar production, either the previous year or in 1969 at Newark Castle.
I'm including the flyer for it which I kept.
I didn't see the Newark production, but I think the castle there would have made a better stand-in for the Tower of London than Nottingham Castle did - although I can't remember now exactly what part of it featured in the background.
I also can't remember how much - stage or audience - was under cover, although I do remember it came on to rain at one point on the night I was there.
The chorus was made up of members of the West Bridgford Operatic Society and the Newark Amateur Operatic Society.
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Jill, perhaps a Co-op on Main Street that pre-dated the large one on the corner that I mentioned. I worked in Bulwell in the late 1960s/very early 70s and while I was fairly familiar with town centre not all the shops have stuck in my memory!
By the time I went to live there in 1980 I remember there was a supermarket on Main Street more or less opposite the Midland Bank - could have been Lipton's but I'm not certain. If I say possibly that was previously the Co-op I'm just speculating.
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There was the Co-op on Highbury Road that was in the old cinema (the actual building). Don't know what it is now.
In my time living in Bulwell - 1980s to late 1990s - there was also the larger Co-op on the corner of Highbury Road/Main Street leading up from the Market Place. Is that now a Wilkinson's?
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8 minutes ago, Jill Sparrow said:
Was she not the sister of Joan Fontaine, who played the nameless second Mrs De Winter in Hitchcock's Rebecca?
That's correct. By all accounts the two sisters were noted for what was described as a feuding rivalry, however it when Joan Fontaine was up for the part of Melanie in 'Gone With the Wind' she said 'Why don't you try my sister Olivia?'.
What was said about Joan Fontaine was that she projected a quality of making everyone in the audience want to protect her.
Judith Anderson, by the way, was Australian, and I think the accent comes through at times in 'Rebecca'.
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1 hour ago, carni said:
I have just taken another look on you tube at Ethel in her role as the art dealer.
It always amazes me how much her great-niece looks like her.
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Having become a Gilbert & Sullivan aficionado because of the catchy tunes and comedy I was not the first such person to as a result go on and develop an appreciation for proper singing and, with the greatest of respect to Sir Arthur, real classical music - or at least operatic music in my case.
So in June 1971 I took the plunge into grand opera with the visit of what was then still called Sadler's Wells Opera (and which in those days still toured outside London) to the Theatre Royal. I still went for comedy though, and saw Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville'. Sadler's Wells, of course, performed the pieces in English translation otherwise I wouldn't have considered it.
Other operas in the repertoire that week were 'The Seraglio' by Mozart, and 'Semele' by Handel. But the 'Barber' was enough for me!
25p in the gallery (the new money having come in since my last trip).
I haven't copied the page with the cast, but the Count was played by Long Eaton-born John Brecknock who was a company regular in the 1970s.
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When I saw the title to this thread I thought it might be something to do with 'The Desert Song'. But it seems not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHAQYJrhxuU
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DJ360 - yes, the man is standing on the corner shown in the Google Maps image. My first thought was also that he might be trainspotting, then I realised the railway is below where the photographer is standing.
I remember Eric Shepherd did have a car at least similar to that one - a Wolseley? Austin? (others will know). In my earlier days at High Pavement (1961/62) I used to get the no. 6 bus to school from the stop on Hucknall Road near to Haydn Road, and if Eric saw High Pavement boys waiting there he would usually stop and give us a lift. It was sometimes that one or more usually his little old Baby Austin (ANG732???).
The name Steele seems vaguely familiar but I can't bring him to mind. I think it was Bloom (John?) who had a Standard 8. The only other masters' car I remember is Ray Caulton's Standard estate which had all the foreign 'Tiger in Your Tank' stickers on it.
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9 minutes ago, iandawson said:
#19 is a great picture,though I am struggling to place things.. Where is that arched bridge?..is the Newstead Abbey pub to the right??
Ian.
The bridge over the road just below the centre of the picture is Northern Bridge. The building just below it is Northern Baths. To the right of it is Basford North station (as it was called in my day).
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2 hours ago, notty ash said:
Ref #229, what's the Barton bus on the far right?
That's one of Barton's rebuilds which they produced in various configurations. Can't quite make out the number, but it could be 668, which would be a typical example of what they did - the chassis of that was originally a Leyland Titan PD1 double decker which Barton extended and fitted with single deck bodywork of their own manufacture in place of the original. It was then classified as a Barton BTS1. It would have been on the Leicester service in that photo.
The photo at #233 is of one of Barton's double deck rebuilds - a Barton BTD2. No. 901 seen there also originally had the chassis from a Leyland PD1 which was lengthened to 30 feet by Barton. New bodywork was by Northern Counties Motor & Engineering Co. (NCME) of Wigan.
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I've a couple of Camm's photos somewhere on this Forum (don't ask me where), but this seems to be the only other one I ever took - a Ford R226 seen leaving the Victoria Bus Station in the early 1970s. It must have been on hire to Lincolnshire or Trent - or I suppose National Express by then - for use on an express service. As I remember, it was unusual for any of them to hire a Camm's vehicle...
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12 hours ago, iandawson said:
Thanks Merthyr, that's a great picture. Saw a photo of a Camms coach outside Little woods today.
Bad luck.
But seriously:
1. Are Camm's still operating?
2. Is Littlewoods still open in Nottingham?
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1 hour ago, iandawson said:
Probably just the picture angle- but that East Midland bus in Cliffs photo looks long at the back.
Well, it was 30 feet long (a Leyland Titan PD3). It was perhaps a characteristic of all 30-foot front-engine double deckers. Compare with this view of one Barton's rebuilds:
Woodthorpe Grange
in Kat's Carlton, Mapperley, Arnold & Sherwood Forum
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The upper photo at #15 is of the last passenger train on June 16th 1951 mentioned earlier. Of course it would have returned later in the day from Thorneywood so that would technically be the last of all.