Merthyr Imp
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Re the City Ground, according to my copy of The Football Grounds of England & Wales by Simon Inglis the Bridgford End was actually EXTENDED in 1958. Perhaps we just don't remember it being that high.
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Yes, all this has happened since 'my day'. I haven't a clue about the present day scene - all these Optares and Wrights and what-not mean nothing to me!
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There may have been others but one tends to associate five cylinder engines with the Bristol K type and the shorter Lodekkas. Don't particularly remember them sounding any different, but the K type especially was notorious for the amount of vibration the smaller engines caused.
The Bristol five cylinder models were usually operated by companies in areas where there where not many hills. Some single deckers had four cylinder engines.
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Well, the Loline was manufactured by Dennis Bros. of Guildford (as the firm used to be - I believe there's been loads of takeovers, mergers, etc since then). It was the Lodekka design 'built under licence' by them. It was provided with a Gardner engine as were the majority, but by no means all, of Lodekkas.
Dennis's bus chassis manufacturing business was in something of a decline in the mid-1950s and I think they saw it as a way of increasing sales without developing a new design of their own. But despite the Lodekka being so popular (bearing in mind it was that or nothing for the Tilling/BTC/THC companies) sales of the Loline never really took off. Of course that may have been due to limited manufacturing capacity at Dennis compared to Bristol, or I'm not sure whether Lolines were more expensive than other designs of the time.
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Interestingly, Luton did have a few Dennis Lolines which passed to United Counties - what you might call imitation Lodekkas. This one, with bodywork by Neepsend of Sheffield, was probably photographed on the same day (whenever that was!) in Luton. Not that this has got anything to do with Nottingham.
iandawson - I have got a few shots taken through the front window of the car (passenger side) on various occasions, but I think that was the only rear window photo I took.
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The back window of either a Triumph Herald or a Vitesse (can't remember which it was at that time). I forgot to say the location was somewhere in Bedfordshire - bus was heading for Luton.
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Not sure if this is the right thread for this photo, but here it is. The connection with Notts is that it is a former Mansfield District Bristol Lodekka, seen here after its transfer to United Counties.
I thought the photo might be of interest for the cars of the period. Photo was taken in the early 1970s immediately before I was run over.
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You could very well be right, Deepdene Boy, and that explains why I bothered to take the photograph.
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I used to like to go along and see Notts play Forest in those fairly short-lived days when they were competing on equal terms. This was Tuesday 13th April 1976. Score was 0-0, and the attendance was over 28,000 which must be the biggest crowd I was ever in at Meadow Lane. In fact it was bigger than turned out at the City Ground for the reverse fixture earlier in the season - probably due to Brian Clough having started to pull Forest around.
The programme was in a newspaper format for which there was a slight craze among some clubs at the time (Derby being another), but despite the amount of space there was no league table given.
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I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again does get repeats on BBC Radio 4 Extra - I listened to one the other week. Also at the moment you can hear episodes of The Goon Show and The Navy Lark ('Left hand down a bit').
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#70 Eileen,.......just googled (it did't hurt) it was 'Beyond our Ken'.........but i'm sure they got it off 'Percy Thrower' ?
Yes, it was Kenneth Williams in the character of Arthur Fallowfield.
Speaking of Kenneth Williams - 'no, stop messing about!' originally from Hancock's Half Hour.
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An Historic Scotland photograph - the cemetery for soldiers' dogs at Edinburgh Castle, photographed in April 1998:
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Yes, that's an AEC Bridgemaster.
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"The day the war broke out......my wife....said to me" Sandy Powell? not sure
'The day war broke out...' was Robb Wilton.
Sandy Powell's catch phrase was 'Can you 'ear me, mother?'
Remember Jimmy Clitheroe? - 'Don't some mother's 'ave 'em?' and 'I'm all there with me cough drops'.
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Talking of famous catch-phrases, I think Mona Lot (who was the charwoman) was also the origin of "Shall I do you now, sir?"
Er, no - that was Mrs Mopp: 'Can I do you now, sir?'
ITMA was full of catch phrases e.g.:
'I don't mind if I do!' - Colonel Chinstrap
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Liberty doesn't get any funding from me.
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DJ360 - you could very well be right about the origin of the 'sssss'. I don't remember that myself, but I was there! After all these years I can't listen to the Grand March from Aida without putting the words to it that we had to learn:
Glory to Isis, who from all
wardeth away disaster.
To Egypt's royal master
raise we our festive song
('No, boys, you have to forget you're from Nottingham - sing it as 'marster' and 'disarster'')
And remember the song from The Marriage of Figaro we also had to sing? To be honest I can only remember part of it:
Say goodbye now to pastime and play, lad
Say goodbye to your airs and your graces ('who's singing 'braces'?')
Here's an end to the life that was gay, lad (we thought nothing of such a phrase in those far-off days)
Here's and end to your games with the girls
Here's an end to your romps in the hay, lad (except that line had to be cut as it was thought too indelicate for the audience)
Regarding Albert, it was a reign of terror - I remember once, even Bill Gray referred to him as a tyrant.
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#40 - You should have left the car and gone through the nice weatherproof tunnel!
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Brian Clough in his first full season in charge hadn't got going yet (or been joined by Peter Taylor), and although no league table is given in the programme for this match on 24th September 1975 Forest can't have been higher than mid-table. Only ten and a half thousand saw this 2-1 defeat by Charlton Athletic which was their third in four home games (including losing to Notts). John Robertson scored the goal, and there must have been some sort of injury crisis as they fielded a side with no recognised striker. In fact the only goal credited to a striker so far that season was one by John O'Hare.
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The one time I can remember being uneasy on a bridge was years ago when I walked over Tower Bridge in London. There's a very small gap where the two halves meet, and as the traffic went over it it was bouncing up and down slightly. I didn't like it, but as no-one has yet fallen through it in a hundred and however many years I expect it's safe enough.
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I remember watching 'The Prisoner' when it was first shown, and as it says on that website carni gives a link to, the implication was that he was the same character - John Drake - from 'Danger Man'.
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In terms of the seating capacities of the two theatres, although both varied over the years, a book I've got gives the Empire as 2,500 in 1912 (although this may include standing places), reduced to 1,763 by 1946.
The Theatre Royal could hold 1,997 seated in 1897, plus 1,003 standing(!). By the time of its closure for remodelling in 1977 this had been reduced to 1,456 seated only. The 1977 rebuilding, of course, reduced the capacity a lot further by replacing the old gallery benches with proper seats.
I notice in the photo the Gaumont looks quite large too.
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Gash's ran from Huntingdon Street though:
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The Stonebow in Lincoln photographed in about 1968.
Looking at it these days it's difficult to imagine double decker buses once ran through it. I can just about remember when two way traffic ran through it (there must have been traffic lights) but in the 1960s that part of the High Street leading to it was made one way, and now of course it's long been pedestrianised.
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