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More likely a bothy for tram crews, or possibly cab drivers?

If the power station was built for tramway power, then it wouldn't have been needed until around 1901 http://www.britishtramsonline.co.uk/nottingham-history.html

Manipulation can be fun! My favourite is converting colour to black & white with colour highlights - or just plain black & white

Tealsby in Lincolnshire has a street called "The Smooting"

My mother trusted me to walk or catch the bus to school on my own from the tender age of seven or eight. It was about a mile along a main road each way. The only problem was once when I caught the bus home, only to remember that I was supposed to be meeting my mum and my little sister in town after school, which was the opposite direction. I had no money for the fare back but managed to bluff my way on and off the bus OK - late but safe. I started cycling on my own aged 11, going quite long distances as I grew in confidence. Never a problem!

We may never know - apparently only the last 2 hours of cockpit recordings are on tape at any one time, so whatever was said or done will likely have been overwritten long before the end of the flight.

Very unlikely I would suggest that anyone is still alive, unfortunately. This link below is interesting - especially the fact that the pilot may have been a supporter of an opposition political party and possibly attended a court hearing a few hours before the flight when an opposition leader was jailed for 5 years http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11224831

Just to report that the model railway exhibition was excellent. Here are a few photos of the show.

I have this vision of some kid in his bedroom using his computer to take control of the plane's computer systems and fly the plane, just like a computer game.

If I remember correctly, the show held this weekend originated in Bulwell and later transferred to the Victoria Baths, where it ran for many years. It moved a few years ago to the sports centre next to Harvey Hadden Stadium in Bilborough. Because that is being refurbished, the exhibition has temporarily moved to a school next door. I try and go every year. It is not so much the model trains themselves as the amazing scenery and high quality craftsmanship in general that interests me most.

I went white water rafting in Colorado once. The rock strata at the side of the river were anything but horizontal - a bit like Lulworth Cove, but on a much longer scale.. They definitely made it look as if you were going uphill, or very steeply downhill in places.. It was a very strange feeling!

According to some, the Trent originally continued east towards the Witham Gap and The Wash. It does flow downhill all the way, though it is tidal for a long distance, suggesting that its fall is minimal for the long stretch through Lincolnshire and North Notts.

The ancient Watling Street (more or less the A5 road) is historically a significant dividing line - it was used to separate the Danelaw from the Anglo-Saxon south. It was a diagonal line running more or less from London to Chester. There was also a more north than north - Northumbria.

Discussion of steep hills remind me of the old Hovis advert on tele - I think that was taken in Shaftesbury. There was also this one in Wales - 1:4 on a regular bus route http://www.thefodensociety.org.uk/Bus%20&%20Coach%203.htm

West Bridgford must have been like a working museum.

I was referring to Ordnance Survey maps. They really weren't as up to date always as you might think. They also have deliberate (small) errors to catch out other map publishers trying to use their information for free. Bartholomews got caught out that way, I believe.

There are/were a lot of level crossings on the GC in Lincolnshire and adjacent parts of Notts. The one next to Worksop station is an obvious one, with New Holland as one that has now gone. Even more if you count the LD&EC line.

True, but don't always treat them as gospel. Lots of things weren't updated properly, even when new editions came out. Other things were deliberately missed off - like (until very recently) most military installations

Some were bridges added long after the railway and were never level crossings - like Wilkinson Street which doesn't appear on maps until the 1950s, I think.

There are a couple of plans available - one in the book about Great Northern Loco Sheds (Vol 2). The other I know of is a drawing available from the Midland & Great Northern Railway Circle, http://www.mgncircle.org.uk/html/drawings_list.html, which has elevations and plans. I think the latter was drawn when the station was converted into a fitness centre, so may be slightly speculative. The interior was probably changed several times anyway, with several extensions and then the conversion into a parcels depot.

Looking at the maps, Shortwood Farm (the building) was nearer the aerodrome than to the Shortwood Estate and survived after the Shortwood houses were built.

Terribly sad that such an historic building should be allowed to go to ruin like this.

Reginald, Cecil, Constance, Gertrude, Mabel - just a few from the family tree, late Victorian or Edwardian.

Priestpopple is a street in Hexham. Export Drive used to be a road name near where I live.

Looking at old OS maps, the road barely leads anywhere until the 20th century. It is not a normal turnpike. It would be interesting to find out more. Maybe an enterprising local landowner had built the road across fields towards Carlton and charged people for the privelege of using it?