Merthyr Imp
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And how normal was it to see a trolley bus overtaking what appears to be a moving motor bus ?
Maybe a couple of possibilities - the Midland General (I'm pretty sure it IS an AEC Regent III) could be at a stop with parked cars preventing it from getting to the curb, and/or maybe the trolleybus is empty and speeding back to Bulwell depot, which could account for it heading away from town.
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I can only report my own experience, which is that my HP printer dates from 2001 and was initially used with Windows ME (remember that??).
Since then I have successively upgraded to using Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and recently Windows 10 and had no problem at all with the printer working.
My Canon scanner dates from 2007 and has also worked successively with Windows 8, 8.1 and now 10 with no problems.
Maybe just lucky!
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Looking at the list of subs, it's getting more like an American football game.
Yes, but only a maximum of three of them are allowed to be used during a game.
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Gentlemen please. This post was about spoken English. Have a bit-more decorum.
I thought decorum was what you do to apples before you bake them?
That joke was first broadcast on 'The Navy Lark' in 1960-something. (At any rate that's when I first heard it).
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I've also tried to recall the names of members of the company, but can't get much further than these: Ralph Nosseck, Peter Whitbread, Cherie Lunghi, Alec Heggie,
Was John Shrapnel one of them? He later appeared in quite a few things on TV.
I mean to dig out my own Playhouse programmes some time and put a few notes on here, but I never went there as often as the Theatre Royal.
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At High Pavement we had eight houses:
Newstead
School
Sherwood
Trent
Wollaton (which I was in)
Woodthorpe
And two others which I've forgotten! Perhaps DJ360 will remind us.
This was in the early 1960s. My memory is that Woodthorpe always came last in the events on Sports Day, but always won at swimming!
The other notable co0mpetition between the Houses was the House Play Competition in the run-up to Christmas when each put on a short play, or more usually an extract from a play, and was judged on them.
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England about to play Portugal tonight,forwards look good..Vardy,Kane and Rooney............but don't like the look of defenders
Ironically of course, it was a defender who scored!
I thought Vardy and Kane were both disappointing tonight.
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Not bean through all the posts but I can't remember Mrs Dales Diary being mentioned
I think it was on the Third Programme.
The Light Programme.
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Andrea Pirlo did OK for Italy at the age of 33 in the 2012 European Championships. Unfortunately for us he also did quite well for them in one particular match at the 2014 World Cup at the age of 35.
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Wayne Rooney will only be 32 in 2018 so could still play a key part - provided of course he's still good enough.
Age doesn't necessarily matter - Bobby Charlton was 32 at the time of the 1970 World Cup and was still one of our best players. As we all know if he hadn't been substituted in the quarter final we wouldn't have lost.
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Well, a club goalscoring record shouldn't be the only criterion for selection. Judging on their international appearances my personal opinion is Sterling is too inconsistent, Lallana never looks convincing to me and Sturridge has been injured so much recently that to my mind he's only 4th choice striker for England now.
I also can't help thinking that if Sterling was that good a player he wouldn't be in and out of the side at Manchester City so much.
Townsend has done well for England when given the chance and has finished the season in good form.
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I'd rather have seen Townsend included than any one of Sturridge, Sterling or Lallana.
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Used to go to Elmo on Mansfield Road, Sherwood in the late 60s/early 70s - on the next corner to the post office. I've forgotten what it became later - Fine Fare?
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Well, there's also a tunnel 12 miles long on the HS1 line to the Channel Tunnel and the 17+ miles of the Northern Line on the London Underground, but I was thinking more of Network Rail lines (i.e. the former British Rail).
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Totley Tunnel being the second-longest on the network after the afore-mentioned Severn Tunnel.
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Well done Merthyr Imp, that tunnel does seem quite long, it goes for ages !
You should try going through the Severn Tunnel! Or from Sheffield to Manchester, which has three long tunnels, making up I think around 18% of the whole distance.
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That's right, since the chord was put in. I assumed Catfan was asking about the pre-chord situation.
In which case it would have been Peascliffe Tunnel on the main line between Barkston and Grantham (quite a bit longer than Gonerby Tunnel). After then leaving Grantham for Nottingham the train would then, as now, go through Gonerby Tunnel.
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Chris B is correct. Everything you could wish to know is here:
http://railwaymaniac.com/2016/03/the-allington-chord/
Gonerby Tunnel is 560 yards long.
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But trying to stop it once it has started is not advised at all.
Just like Magnus Magnusson.
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A lovely old Austin lorry I believe...... Yes, there's the bike again!
I'd say a Bedford.
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Weren't Hillman part of the Rootes Group an offshoot of the giant US corporation, Chrysler ?
Not originally - Chrysler took them over in the late 1960s:
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Out of curiosity, what is the car on the left of that Marsdens photo?
Looks like a Hillman:
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Nice to see the New Empress in the background of no. 3.
St Anns in the 60s
in 60's Nottingham
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DaveK, I was at Blue Bell Hill from late-ish 1959 until mid-1961 so we must have been at school together, however judging by your dates you must be four years younger than me.
Griggs' shop was either the one partly visible in the photo to the left of the alleyway or just to the left of that. Maxine Griggs was in the same class as me and is sixth from the right on the front row of this class photo taken in 1960 when we were all aged about 10:
The thing I remember about Mr Griggs' shop was the fresh baked bread rolls (and the smell of them) which some of the kids used to get in the morning.