Merthyr Imp
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The ability to impress people with your knowledge of the novels of Sir Walter Scott without the bother of having to read the dreary things.
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Don't forget Cleethorpes - or did Nottingham people not go there so much?
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#7 - Our caravan (in Chapel St. Leonards) was rather less modern:
This must have been some time around the mid-1950s. The caravan had solid-tyred wheels which had partly sunk into the ground. I think the car must have been borrowed.
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Could be by the same photographer as in #3!
I would guess this was 1953 in Skegness. Furthest left is my grandmother, who would then have been in her mid-70s, and holding my hand is her friend Edie Stevenett who I see is having to carry my bucket and spade.
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#1 - The photo was taken on the East Lancashire Railway in 2008.
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This may be heresy, but to be honest I always thought the blue & grey introduced from the mid-1960s brought a much-needed modern look to the railways compared to the drab maroon which was a bit old fashioned by then.
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#9 - Benjamin - sorry you'd have to tell what it was opposite in 1968 not what it's opposite now!
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Whereabouts was it in Sherwood?
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I don't want to get into Monty Python territory, but some of us didn't even have an outside toilet (at least not with plumbing), never mind an inside one.
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Merthyr Imp
If you consider that the bus went to the town centres of each of the places you listed, its not bad timings at all.
Lincoln and Merthyr Tydfil railway stations are just as central to the respective town centres as the bus stations. In fact the coach timing is so especially poor for that journey because of having to wait three and three quarters of an hour for a connection in Birmingham.
I was also making the point that the service by train is many times more frequent than the single daily journey by coach.
#165 - Re the train taking 7 hours from Penzance to Bristol, my trusty old ABC Coach & Bus Guide from 1966 gives the coach time by Associated Motorways service of 8 hours 30 minutes from Penzance to Bristol.
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The Muffin Club......... Well he is in Wales...LOL
I was in Lincolnshire when I became a member.
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#11 - As far as I know I'm still a member:
Although whether I never signed my membership card invalidates it I don't know:
Annette Mills, of course, was the sister of John Mills.
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And I remember when a band was a lot of people playing musical instruments not a few people just singing.
But regarding the word soccer, it seems something of an urban myth that it's a modern Americanism. I used to read the magazine 'Soccer Star' regularly in the 1960s:
http://www.soccerbilia.co.uk/acatalog/Raich_Carter_s_Soccer_Star.html
And as a word for football it's been in British use since the last century.
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colly - it probably was cheaper by coach, but no doubt took longer.
On that subject, I'm currently sweating on this rail strike going ahead next week and have been comparing present day coach with rail times as a contingency plan.
From Merthyr Tydfil to Lincoln by coach there is only one service a day (at 9.05am) which, changing at Birmingham, would get us into Lincoln 10 hours 35 minutes later - cost works out for us at about £73 single.
For the same journey by train, there's an hourly service from a time earlier than we'd want to travel!, changing at Cardiff and Nottingham, which takes around 6 hours 15 minutes to get to Lincoln - cost for us is about £67.
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Maybe 'of the 1960s' should be removed from the thread title.
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'...the local kids talked all funny & they couldn't understand me..'
That reminds me of when I moved from Lincolnshire to Nottingham aged 9.
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Southdown coaches could occasionally be seen at Huntingdon Street but not on a regular basis. This was sometime in the late 1960s and shows a bit of the street itself.
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Getting back to the 1960s - The Italian Job.
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#3 - Going off at a tangent I remember when they had one of those giving rides off Mablethorpe (I think) beach. 1960-ish.
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Further info for Colly:
The Hall Bros. timetable in my ABC Coach & Bus Guide for Summer 1966 shows the following timings:
Huntingdon St. depart 1155am
Calling at:
Mansfield 1230pm
Warsop 1240pm
Worksop 1258pm
Langold 1.10pm
Doncaster arrive 1.35pm
Doncaster depart 2.15pm
Wetherby 3.15pm
Boroughbridge 3.40pm
Catterick 4.30pm
Darlington 4.55pm
Ferryhill 5.20pm
Durham 5.35pm
Chester-Le-Street 5.55pm
Newcastle 6.15pm
South Shields 6.45pm
Additional refreshment stop: Leeming Bar
Nottingham was also meant to be a refreshment stop (the service having started at Coventry).
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#130 - I think this is the only Hall Bros. photo I've got that doesn't show any Barton insignia - although it may date from just after the takeover by Barton in 1967. A busy summer Saturday at Huntingdon Street.
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For a brief time, I would say around 1965-ish, a single decker bus was used as a café at the old Broad Marsh bus station. In the period from around 1963 onwards I don't ever remember one being used as a café at either Huntingdon Street or Mount Street.
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Reminds me of when my son was little. Sometimes when I was telling him of things that happened years ago he would ask: 'Was that in the days when there was no colour?'
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Thanks for that, Cliff - so nothing has been built there!
In particular, thanks for finding the photo on that link. The top floor window in the gable end was my bedroom! So the old advertising signs had gone by 1975 although it looks as if may still have been a shop of some kind.
Trainspotting
in Pete's Nottingham Transport Forum
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Didn't they make a film about that? Although I think he used a handkerchief.