Merthyr Imp
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So is it Charles l or Charles ll who's supposed to have hidden in the Major Oak? I'm getting confused.
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I'm not sure how true this was but he told me that prior to the second world war busses would run through the Stone Bow.
Double decker buses were still running through the Stonebow until at least the late 1960s. I've got a photo I took myself around 1969 but can't lay my hands on it at the moment, but hopefully this link will work:
http://legacymedia.localworld.co.uk/275789/Article/images/17946800/4503902-large.jpg
It's difficult to imagine, looking at it nowadays, but I think the road level has been raised slightly since traffic used to run through it.
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The refuse lorries and other corporation vehicles all had numbers and the particularly sad ones amongst us bus spotters (e.g. me) used to collect those numbers as well.
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I like Tiny Tim.
God bless us, every one.
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It was more like the Eurovision Beard Contest this year.
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According to 'The Story of the Nottingham Suburban Railway' Volume 1 by David G. Birch, the Nottingham Patent Brick Company supplied the bricks used for the sidewall of St Pancras station (opened 1876). They then had difficulty in meeting the demand for quantity of bricks, but later became the supplier of bricks for the front façade of the station and the structure of the hotel which was built wholly from around 10 million NPBC bricks.
Bricks were transported from the brickyards by road as the Suburban Railway company was not formed until 1885.
Note - it does say St Pancras was opened in 1876 in that book, but as someone posted earlier, it was in fact 1868.
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When we got to Chesterfield, and starting off again, it went backwards. Well, to me it was backwards, and I had myself a little panic attack that the bloody train was returning to Manchester! I sat there a while then asked someone what the deal was, and was told it goes into Chesterfield, backs out the same way then onto another line to Nottm.
It wouldn't normally do that - perhaps there was a diversion due to engineering work when you travelled.
It's unusual there was no announcement when you were approaching Nottingham - there usually is before all 'station stops'.
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With Jimmy Sirrel as manager:-
1970/71 - championship of Division Four (now known as League 2)
1972/73 - runners-up in Division Three (now League 1) and promotion
1980/81 - runners-up in Division Two (now the Championship) and promotion to a level they'd last played at in 1926
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I wonder if that bracket may have been for a gas light? The metal rods look to me as though they could have doubled as a pipe for the gas.
The station entrance was definitely on the south side of the road, with steps leading up to the north end of the platform. Various maps/photos show the station being to the south of the road, plus I remember it as a station where trainspotters were frowned upon! The road outside wasn't a great place to spot from, so my regular place was Perry Road bridge further up.
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Don't forget a variety of intermissions and programmes made by Hans & Lotte Hass.
They were the underwater wildlife programmes, weren't they? And on land it was Armand & Michaela Dennis.
Zoo Quest with David Attenborough is going back a bit as well.
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The other noted commentator of the time (or earlier) was Raymond Glendenning.
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Model T Fords.
I never did see them.
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Anyone remember listening to boxing on the Light Programme? Commentary by Eamonn Andrews, with inter-round summaries by W. Barrington Dalby.
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Of those listed, some were before my time although I've heard of them, e.g. 'Adventures of PC 49'. He was also in the Eagle comic - again, before my time!
I can't think of 'Breakfast Show', 'Record Roundup' or 'Uncle Mac's Favourite' (unless you mean 'Children's Favourites' which is listed separately?).
I don't remember 'Likely Lads' being on the radio, but it may have been - presumably after it had been on TV, if so? Some popular TV series did turn up later on the radio, e.g. 'Dad's Army'.
Er - 'Watch with Mother' was a TV programme!
Several are still on the radio to this day - 'The Archers', 'Woman's Hour' and one or two others.
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a programme featuring the Palm Court Orchestra, (go straight through the glass doors).
I think that may have been 'Grand Hotel' - '...and now we go over to the Palm Court of Grand Hotel...'
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It wasn't the premises next to Northern Baths where they were made, then?
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Remember I had crush on Patricia Driscoll at the time, ahhh, memories, that's what I love about the Forum.
Ah yes - Maid Marian!
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Better downgrade me to 18 Katyjay , I thought it was Picture This but your answer sounds better !
Yes - 'Picture Book' used to be on 'Watch With Mother' on Mondays
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Which did you not get Merthyr?
No. 14
I assume the word is 'pleases', but although I remember 'Player's Please' I don't remember 'It's the tobacco that pleases' (if that's what it is)
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19 out of 20 - so I am old after all.
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Sadly, you'd have to go back to the mid-1910s for hustle and bustle on the suburban line.
I trust that in your last sentence you mean 1962 and not age 62?? (One never knows!)
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It's the radio programmes that were always so much a part of Sundays in the old days for me - 'Family Favourites' at mid-day, then 'Billy Cotton' while having Sunday dinner followed by (typically) 'The Navy Lark' and 'The Clitheroe Kid'
Then it was 'Pick of the Pops' at around 4 o'clock, and, just to put everyone in a miserable mood, at the thought of it being Monday the following day, the incredibly dreary 'Sing Something Simple' at 6pm.
All on the Light Programme, of course.
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The first ever fridge we had was new in 1961. I was still using it in 1998, and probably would be to this day except when I got married that year my wife wouldn't let me - er, I mean we decided to get a bigger fridge/freezer for our new home.
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I've got to confess that Shakespeare's English to me is like a foreign language.
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St Anns in the 60s
in 60's Nottingham
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Apparently Clayton Moore did tour England in 1958, so it's possible it really was the Lone Ranger himself:
http://www.oocities.org/televisioncity/7286/interview.html
When we lived on Blue Bell Hill Road our 'town centre' cinema - I should say picture house - was the Mechanics - didn't you go there? How about the New Empress further along St Ann's Well Road?