Merthyr Imp
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The cinema on Market Street was the Scala for many years. It became a news and cartoon cinema in the mid-1960s and was then the Classic, and in later years was noted for the, shall we say, risqué films shown there - except in the school holidays when it would show family films.
The history of it's here:
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/37631
It has been discussed quite a bit on here in the past.
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A game at Field Mill when Mansfield had already achieved promotion from the old Fourth Division and were on the way to the championship with a 3-1 win in front of a Monday night attendance of over 14,000.
Scorers were Ray Clarke, John Lathan and Kevin Bird with John Ward replying for the Imps.
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A Historic Wales photo:
Cyfarthfa Castle, Merthyr Tydfil. Pronounced 'Kuh-vartha', it was built as a residence in 1824 by the owner of one of the local ironworks. It is now a museum.
Photographed in March 1995.
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I couldn't miss this game on Tuesday 25th March, 1975 - Notts became the first club to play 3,000 Football League matches. As it rather ruefully pointed out in the programme, the reason Notts achieved this feat was due to the fact they had spent more time in the lower divisions than any of the other clubs of similar longevity. By a large coincidence it added to the occasion that the game was against Forest.
At the time Notts were above halfway in the Second Division, well above Forest. It was not long after Brian Clough had become manager of the latter. Score was 2-2, with Ian Scanlon and an own goal for Notts and Barry Butlin and George Lyall scoring for Forest. Attendance was just over 20,000.
I haven't included it, but the Carvery advertisement showed that the price of a good dinner had now gone up to £2.65.
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I can remember Brown carrier bags, I think they had string handles, a nuisance when one side of the handle always seemed to break free!
Yes - didn't they used to cost 3d in Woolworth's?
Regarding food waste recycling, we're told here (and in fact issued with them by the Council) to use special degradable plastic bags.
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I think the idea of charging a payment for the bags is to discourage people from using them and therefore there would be fewer going into landfill.
We all like to look back at the old good old days on here, so I'm just curious as to how we ever managed before shops began handing out plastic bags to every customer.
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You get used to it - we have here in Wales - and for the last few years it's taken some getting used to when visiting a shop in England to realise the bag is being handed out free.
Really it's just a case of reverting to how things were years ago, as I remember when I first began to do my own grocery shopping back in the early 1970s I took my own shopping bags to the supermarket. It's just the same now. Was it in the 1980s that plastic carrier bags came to be handed out as a matter of course in shops? People somehow used to manage without them before that.
I'm not sure what Compo is referring to by bags for waste, as the plastic bags we have to use here for recycling waste are degradable.
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The Alhambra Theatre in Bradford, built in 1913. I think the photo was taken in November 1974.
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With us it was the Hale-Bopp comet in 1997.
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Well, they wouldn't all have been reserved for NCT as that would imply all but a thousand vehicles and it would take several years for NCT to take in that many new buses.
However, they did have KTV97 to 126, KTV270 to 341, KTV479 to 495 and KTV 500 to 601 which is around 220 vehicles which was a fair amount.
The trolleybuses were delivered new up to 1952, but the four single deckers delivered in 1951 were LTV 700 to 703, and the next new vehicles were OTV127 to 198 in 1953/54.
I think only the likes of London Transport are likely to have taken in the whole of a particular letter combination (I don't know whether they ever actually did or not).
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Now all you get to listen to is some recorded voice of a middle aged posh bint telling us that the next stop is bulwell bleedin bus station, & every stop on the way, as if we didn't know.
It's probably for the benefit of the people who DON'T know.
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Yes, there was a mirror above it in the corner of the top deck ceiling so the driver could see the top deck reflected in it when he looked up.
The old rear entrance, rear staircase buses had one at the top of the stairs so the conductor could look up the stairs and see the top deck reflected in it.
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On 4th January 1975 Second Division Forest drew a big crowd of over 23,000 for the visit of Spurs in the FA Cup 3rd Round. Score was 1-1, with David Jones scoring for Forest and Martin Chivers for the visitors.
This game came two days after the sacking of manager Allan Brown following a 2-0 home defeat to Notts County.
Interestingly, the photo on the programme cover shows a presentation of track suits to the Nottingham Schools Under-14 team with their captain RUSSELL SLADE in the foreground. He had a bit more hair then!
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No, 301's yes I remember them . If I'm correct were there only about five of these.
I seem to remember having a little book with all the Reg No's in. Would it be one of the Ian Allen series of books ?
No, FLY - there were 40 of them.
Here's the page from my own copy of Ian Allan's ABC British Bus Fleets vol. 5 - The East Midlands. First edition, published in 1960. Needless to say, I'd seen all of them - underlined in red. Numbers crossed through in black were those withdrawn from service.
I'd include a scan of the front cover of the booklet, but half of it's missing as I evidently cut a big chunk out of it many years ago.
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Some jackets had gold piping on them but I can't remember whether that was automatic for 6th Form, or of some other significance.
Cricket whites.
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I always thought the piping on the jackets was for those with 'school colours' - i.e. represented the school at sports. Could be wrong.
Yes - cricket whites - flannels, sweater, and I remember having proper cricket boots.
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In 1982 I went to see 'Blade Runner' at the ABC (Screen 1 upstairs if you must know).
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Lighthouse at Gorleston-on-Sea, photographed in 1964.
The lighthouse dates from 1878 and is apparently still in use.
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Sunday football at Meadow Lane now, with a kick-off time of 2.15pm and an attendance of over 14,000 to see mid-table Notts lose 1-3 to bottom of the table Crystal Palace in the Second Division.
The Carvery was still being advertised, but the price of a good dinner had now gone up to £2.00. Meanwhile, Just Pants Plus were about to open in the Broadmarsh Centre:
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Maybe they could shed some light on the situation.
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#674 - could have just been a random number left on the display.
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catfan - but why not show the destination properly instead of using a scrappy sign inside the windscreen?
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I said (#69): 'Another of my wife's theories is that it was the Duke of Edinburgh who arranged for Diana's car crash.'
poohbear said (#76): 'Assassins throughout history have made sure their attempts at removing their target from the planet Earth came as close as possible to a 100% positive result.
'I can't think of any that have arranged an accident with the remote possibility that their target MIGHT be killed.'
poohbear is right of course - it doesn't seem the most efficient way of arranging to assassinate someone. But you can't tell these wives, can you?
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#89 - I haven't watched it since they killed off Martha Longhurst.
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#668 - Yes, I wondered about Goose Fair - although if I remember right 'Goose Fair' was available to show on the destination blinds.
#669 - Tens of Park Drive were the biggest selling cigarettes in our shop in the early 1960s. Three ha'pence change out of a two shilling piece - I suppose that sticks in my mind after so many years because we sold so many. And prices never seemed to change in those days.
I remember five Park Drive Tipped sold for 10½d.
Things you don't see anymore
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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On the theme of cars - starting handles (unless someone's mentioned that before).