Manversboy

Hi All, Hadn't seen this thread before, although I see it's being running for several years. The references to the "Alpha Organisation" and "One Alpha" caught my eye as I remember a "One Alpha" from my early ham radio days in the mid-60s, pre-CB, when local comms were mainly on 1.9 MHz using AM. "One Alpha" and another station "Picasso Radio" used to jam a lot of ham conversations and also broadcast rants with a distinct Nazi tinge, with recorded jack-boots marching in the background, etc! I believe OA was located somewhere along Alfred St South but he was a big signal around the city and ove

Thanks. I get their catalogue in the post so will make a point of checking for Vol 3 when the next catalogue comes. I believe that Vol 3 has a number of previously unpublished photos in it. Cheers MB

It's been a few months since I looked at this thread, so sorry for the delay in responding. Re posting #93, I've just looked at Booklaw's catalogue but can only see volumes 1 and 2 of David Birch's books on the NSR, have I missed the launch of the third volume? I know David has been unwell recently. MB

Just to add a family story to this interesting thread. My family lived around the Carlton Rd/Thorneywood area and I can recall my Mum telling me that there was a house on a street corner that faced onto Carlton Rd that had been bombed in BOTH world wars. It's about 55 years since she told me this but I looked at the map posteed earlier that showed the bomb impacts and it does look as if the street was Lancaster Road. I think I recall her saying that in WW1 the bomb fell outside the house in the street but the WW2 bomb demolished the place - or it could have been the other way around! Either

Hi Cliff Ton, Yes, thanks for those shots. The first shot shows the block of shops I'm thinking off and I can see the front buildings of the school have now gone. I did a search after posting and another member, Bubblewrap, asked the same question as me here:- http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9289&page=3 That means I didn't imagine it, at least! MB

Hi All, I was at Hogarth Junior school on Carlton Rd from about 1954 or 5 to 1958 or 9. I see that nowadays it is a Hindu temple and no longer a school. This question is about a vague childhood memory which I was reminded of recently when I read some postings about the trolleybuses that used Carlton Rd. I wonder if anyone remembers a peculiar shop on the same side of the road as the school, going towards the town centre, that had nothing in the window but a model trolleybus? I have a very vague memory that it was a six-wheeler and that at some time it may have been activated by putting a coi

Better late than never, I also witnessed this disaster, I was in the playgroud of Hogarth primary on Carlton Road at the time (the school is now a Hindu temple I believe). Anyway, I found this report which seems to clear up the details:- http://macr.moonfruit.com/#/dh-vampires-xh321-xe990/4532317348 Other Notts crashes on thr same site. Cheers Manversboy.

Sort of flat, black and glowing in the dark? I thought that was normal! MB

As someone else said, these were used by the Civil Defence for training. My dad worked for the East Midlands Electricity Board and like a lot of the nationalised industries the EMEB had CD teams. I went on an exercise with my dad once as a 10 or 12 year old and remember all these very bloody "casualities" moaning and lying about in the ruins of those houses. With an amazing disregard for HSE the search team members were randomly given small radioactive metal buttons to conceal on their bodies and I was given the job of scanning the returning teams with a geiger counter! Mind you, the real CD

Hi No, that's the old stationmaster's house, Thorneywood House is across Porchester Rd. You can just see a chimney on it in the extreme right of your photo. I have some photos of TH but can't see how to attach them to this message. The link to an archived photo is here:- http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM009959&pos=2&action=zoom Cheers Roger

Hi All, Just joined the forum after finding it during a search for Nottingham railway history. Born on Carlton Hill, lived in Thorneywood 1951 to mid 60's, then Wilford Hill until I left home in '69. Lived in Norfolk since '74 which means I am still technically a foreigner. Although my kids are Norfolk born and bred they both went to Uni in Nottingham, so try to keep up links with my hometown. Regards Roger Basford

Hi All, Found this forum whilst searching on the NSR and have enjoyed reading all the recollections of this old line. In 1949 I was born in Thorneywood House, on the corner of Carlton Hill and Porchester Rd, which I am told by David Birch (author of the three books on the NSR) was owned by a director of the line at one time. One of my earliest recollections is seeing the track being lifted at Thorneywood Station (1954ish?) and I often ventured through the Sneinton and Burgass Road tunnels, although I never had the nerve to walk far into the Thorneywood tunnel! My folks moved to my grandpare