Merthyr Imp
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In 1855 A man sold his wife, for one shilling and a pint of ale, in St. Peter’s Square.
Of course a shilling was a shilling in them days.
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Never inspires confidence to see a Forest player take a penalty at the World Cup.
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This raises the interesting (?) question of where is the geographical centre of Basford?
No, all right, I don't mean it.
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'You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.'
From 'Ruddigore' by W. S. Gilbert.
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I see. Evidently already altered before this work was done then:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nation-s-biggest-inland-flood-defence-opened-in-nottingham
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Yes - I was getting confused by mercurydancer suggesting it might have been a lido. It was just a terrace and an arrangement of steps.
Here's another picture of a model which shows it:
http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/monographs/nottingham1927/nottingham10.htm - more
A little research on the Internet seems to indicate it was removed just a few years ago as part of some new flood defence work which involved alterations to the embankment. Don't any of you locals remember it being done? The memorial arches and gateway are listed structures, but presumably that terracing wasn't included in the listing as there seems to have been no protest over its removal - more about the threat to the bandstand in the gardens.
Try a search for 'Victoria Embankment flood defences' and there's a lot, some of which links to pdf files.
The photo from Google that Bubblewrap posted a link to does show a bare patch where the cars are which seems to show where the terrace was.
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I'm confused - are we talking about the memorial gateway not being there or what?
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Is the memorial park on the embankment still there?
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Raises the interesting (?) question of where is the geographical centre of Nottingham?
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In the old days roundabouts would have names like 'Parade of Golden Gallopers'.
Oh. Sorry.
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The problem IMO is that our kids play on full size mud baths so it tends to be the strong players who excel early rather than the skilful ones. An 8 year old Suarez or Messi would probably get kicked to death or hardly played here in favour of a lump of a midfielder who could trundle through the mud all winter and 'put their foot in'.
What we need are more 3G pitches - i.e. artificial grass. I've spent most of the last season watching Merthyr Town play on one (that's the same level of football as the likes of Carlton Town and Rainworth MW), and the true surface aids good quality, passing football. And there are no mud heaps - the surface looks just as good at the end of the season as on the first day.
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Not forgetting Rex Alston,Brian Johnston,Christopher Martin -Jenkins and Henry Blofield.
You've forgotten Fred Trueman ('I just do not know what is going off out there.')
For me, the classic Test Match Special commentary team on the radio was John Arlott, Brian Johnston, CMJ and Henry Blofeld with Bailey and Trueman as co-commentators.
Richie Benaud was good on the TV
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Cricket commentators are so much better (with the exception of Ian Botham) but none of them compere to the likes of John Arlott,Peter West,E.W.Swanton,Jim Laker and Trevor Bailey.
I always found Jim Laker boring.
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merthyr imp- I lived on Alfred St South just around the corner from Blue Bell Hill. The smell of that bread baking! Can you remember these shop
Agars the greengrocers- Perrin the chemist- margarets wool shop- Mrs pitt in the grocers- W Hodson televisions & furniture- old Mr & Mrs Jones from the Post Office - a pub Empress Eugenie- my mum Emily Philpotts? Family next door to me with Mrs Edwards 11 chidren?
I'm afraid I have next to no memories of Alfred Street, although I must have walked along it many times. All I can remember is the barbers where I used to have my hair cut, which was close to the junction with St Anns Well Road, and a little shop that used to sell second-hand comic books. They used to have very little of anything in stock, and it was just a bare counter with a few comics spread out on it. Oh, and I remember there was a greengrocers (no idea of the name) where my mother begged orange boxes for us to use as furniture - we were honestly that poor when we first went to live in Nottingham. As far as I remember none of my schoolfriends from Blue Bell Hill lived on Alfred Street.
This is the period from late 1959 to summer 1961.
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Harry Mann's ice cream van used to be outside High Pavement school gates at going home time every day in the early 1960s. Or so it seemed, anyway!
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I usually get good service from Tesco - they always turn up on time. Only drawback is sometimes an item or two will not be available. I always ask for no substitutions, but sometimes they will provide them anyway, and last time it worked out well for me as they substituted Peters meat pies (don't know if you can get them in Notts) for their own brand so I got better quality for no extra charge.
On odd occasions an item has been missing, but on phoning them they deduct it from the bill with no questions asked.
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My all time favourite was "The Queens Fish Bar" on Mansfield Road in the city, owned by a greek called Angelo.
Years later he sold that shop & bought one in Bulwell !
Was that the Apollo Fish Bar on Highbury Road, just round the corner from the end of Henrietta Street? I went there for years (up to 1997) but never knew his name.
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Here's a few from me.
Will Hay - My 13-year-old son's favourite comedy film is 'Oh, Mr Porter!' and he thinks he's great. I've got a boxed set of Will Hay films, but they never appear on TV these days.
Old Mother Riley (Arthur Lucan) - Remember those films were a staple of TV in the early 1960s? I used to like them then, but I suspect they're deservedly forgotten these days.
Sid Field - He was a big star in the 1940s on stage, and is often praised as one of the best ever by such as Eric Sykes, Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Hope, but is probably forgotten now because he only made a handful of films. He originated the phrase 'What a performance!'
From my young days, how about Cardew 'The Cad' Robinson? He always seemed to be on 'Workers Playtime' and was popular enough to have his own comic strip in 'Radio Fun'.
And Bill Fraser and Alfie Bass - They were very big in the early 60s in 'The Army Game', then continued the same characters in 'Bootsie & Snudge'.
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There's a well-known signpost in Kent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham,_Kent#mediaviewer/File:Hamsandwichroadsign.jpg
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The very one cliff ton,and a nice shot of the lovely Basford flats as well.
Yes, a good photo. Also shows part of the Ministry of Social Security building the other side of the church (old and new), and the Horse & Jockey beyond that on the other side of the road.
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Yer not alone tho i dont know what Biffo is.
Wasn't he that bear on the front cover of the Beano?
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# The trolley buses were sold to Sheffield Corporation, who, I believe, were the last council to have them.
It was Bradford Corporation who they were sold to (and they were, as you say, the last operators of trolleybuses - finishing in 1972):
http://midlandgeneralomnibus.weebly.com/notts--derby-trolleybuses.html
By the way - it was Notts & Derby who operated trolleybuses not Midland General.
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Weren`t the Locarno and the Empress separate buildings, fernilee567?
Yes - the Locarno was a dance hall just around the corner from the bus station. The New Empress was a cinema and was further along St Ann's Well Road. There have been other threads on here about both places.
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Like Crocus Street in the Meadows.
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Tram Bridge
in General Chat about Nottingham
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The station was remodelled last year, with a new short platform being added at the east end of what was platform 4:
http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/europe/%C2%A3100m-nottingham-resignalling-completed.html