Merthyr Imp
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The Ritz in Lincoln, photographed in 1995.
Previously the Odeon, it was acquired by Barry Stead, manager of the Theatre Royal when it was refurbished, and as well as reverting the cinema to its original name he then went on to restore the exterior lighting it apparently had when first opened in the 1930s.
It later became a Wetherspoon's, and I assume it still is. I don't know if they retained this lighting.
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A couple of seasons later the cover design had changed to one that would last for a few more years.
Score was 0-0 and the attendance was a very good 6,238 despite Notts being in the lower reaches of the Fourth Division at the time. Manager was Billy Gray. Team lineup included the young David Needham, later to play for Forest of course, and at centre forward was the almost as young Dave Watson later to find fame as a centre half for England. In midfield for Lincoln was the ex-Forest player Billy Cobb who later ran the Sherwood Inn on Mansfield Road, Sherwood for a number of years.
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Surely roger peatman would be correct about them using their battery power.
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A busy pre-Christmas scene in Lincoln, 1994. Littlewood's is now (I think) Primark.
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...also welsh & scots enjoy OAP bus passes at 60 ! Also No hospital car park charges either there & not forgetting free prescriptions at any age !
Yes, I suppose the free prescriptions make up for only being able to use the bus passes within Wales. I'm not bothered about hospital car park charges as I use my bus pass to get there!
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The eyes of a tiger.
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My first visit to Meadow Lane was 5th February 1966. Unfortunately Notts won 2-1 in Division IV (now League Two). A decent attendance of 5,122 considering Notts were mid-table.
I'll just copy the front cover and a page of adverts.
Notts team was:
1. George Smith
2. Ivan Hampton
3. Tony Bircumshaw
4. John Sheridan
5. Alex Gibson
6. Dick Edwards
7. Brian Bates
8. Tony Flower
9. Ron Still
10.John Beresford
11.Peter McNamee
Sub: Dennis Shiels
Notts manager was Ernie (Tim) Coleman
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This is the most picturesque of the Lake Windermere 'steamers' (now diesel powered). Seen at Bowness (or Rio if you're a Swallow or an Amazon).
September 1995.
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The DUKWs (or Ducks) have been mentioned on another thread somewhere. I seem to remember one being used at Mablethorpe.
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To be precise (pedantic?), the Bristol chassis were manufactured by Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd and the bodywork was by Eastern Coachworks of Lowestoft.
The Tilling Group was the part of the bus industry that was nationalised in the late 1940s as part of the British Transport Commission.
Midland General, Notts & Derby & Mansfield District were not actually part of the Tilling Group but were owned by Balfour Beatty. According to the website below, 'When the electricity industry was mostly nationalised in 1948, Balfour Beatty sold the Midland General Group also, to the British Transport Commission.'
http://www.timebus.co.uk/rlh/onu.htm
So they were BTC companies but not actually Tilling.
Also, there were several Tilling/BTC companies that had a red livery, e.g. Eastern Counties, Cumberland,West Yorkshire and others.
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Tidying up a cupboard, I've sorted through my old football programmes, and I thought I'd start to put a few images on here relating to the various Nottinghamshire clubs.
Starting with my first ever Forest match.
This was away to Crystal Palace, then in the Second Division (now the Championship) in the FA Cup 5th Round. I seem to remember Forest had beaten Sunderland in the round before.
In front of an attendance of over 41,000 Palace won 3-1, Forest's goal coming from Frank Wignall in a poor performance.
I remember I went with my mother's 'gentleman friend' on a trip from a pub which I think was the Robin Hood on Robin Hood Street - I remember that morning walking across the footbridge over Victoria Station and along a snowy Union Road to get there. A coach from Lamcote's of Radcliffe provided the transport.
After the game the party made its way to a restaurant near King's Cross station then a nearby pub (which I assume must have been known to some of them) where they drank steadily until closing time. Although not quite 15 years old I sat with them and nothing was said - probably due to being tall for my age. Got home in the early hours.
The front cover is practically blank except for a drawing of the old Crystal Palace, so here is the title page:
These were the teams. Roy Horobin was a former Notts County player.
There'd been hopes that Forest might have gone on to reach the Cup Final that year, and who knows? - if they'd beaten Palace that day history might have been changed and I'd be writing this under the name of Merthyr Red instead of Merthyr Imp.
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Ah - found it. Prior to the Bedfords at Skegness it was Vulcans that were used:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/116071498@N08/16695696709/
Note the accompanying text:
'L.R.C.C kept the Vulcans until 1958,but by then they had been rebuilt with Bedford OB style bonnets and radiators and presumably Bedford engines. The 25 seat bodies were built by Eaton.'
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There are photos here of one of the Bedfords used at Skegness:
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Not a Boeing in sight!
Here's a couple from me taken two years earlier. I seem to remember it was from what they called the 'Waving Base'. I travelled there with my father to what was then the end of the Piccadilly Line at Hounslow West then by a connecting bus.
I remember while we were there about half a dozen members of the Doug Sheldon fan club arrived to great their hero off a plane 'We want Doug!'. Not the best known of British pop singers, but I think he turned up on Ready Steady Go on one occasion.
This must have been looking in the other direction. As Brian Johnston might have said, it almost looks as if there were more cars there than people.
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A sickly mixture for a cough which my Mum called Ickypec.
I think that was Ipecac. We used to sell it in our shop, but I never remember being dosed with any - it was always Owbridge's.
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#6 Maybe the film was a re-release at the Elite?
Fact is, the AEC Renown hadn't even been invented in 1961 let alone any been sold to NCT (which happened in 1965). Also, there are two Regent Vs visible in the later version of the new livery, which I don't think you would have seen in 1961.
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I'd dispute #7 as being 1961 as there is an AEC Renown visible and they were not introduced until 1965.
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Me too!
This looks as if it was taken a little longer ago - in fact it's got a date on the back - 15 August 1954. It's in a little folder - 'A Souvenir Photograph taken at Skegness' by Wrates, The Pier Entrance, Skegness. It may be one of a repeat order of three advertised as being available in folders for 2/6.
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This is the Baddeley Clock at Bowness - or to be accurate on the boundary between Bowness and Windermere in the Lake District. It was built in 1907 as a memorial to a writer of an early guide book to the area. Photo was taken in September 1995.
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I recently came across this little card showing forthcoming attractions at the Metropole. The year was 1964:
We were fairly regular attenders, but I only remember seeing 'Crooks in Cloisters' of these:
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Of course we're interested.
Trowell station closed the following year (1967) according to Wikipedia.
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#2 - I think he did - but wasn't it a Christmas Pudding?
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#61 - But slightly more expensive than the advert below it for 14/6 a day - but that didn't have a sea view!
Five guineas could have been a week's wage in them days.
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#47 - I think that's where the bus station was (is?). Near the Lyric cinema?
In my day - about five or six years after those photos - the coaches pulled in to a sort of open yard near the railway crossing and station at the far end of the road in those photos.
Historic England pics
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#45 - A historic WALES pic! Good one, though.
Here's the best of my few Welshpool & Llanfair photos, taken at Llanfair Caereinion sometime in the 1980s: