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steam lasted until the 1970s in Germany, years after the last steam locos were withdrawn from BR (Vale of Rheidol narrow gauge line excepted of course)

Nottingham station footbridge

You can overlay one map onto the other and adjust the scales to match, like this

Here's a 1933 photo showing the Crown being built. No roundabout then. https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW043615

You might find something in the Notts Archives as planning processes would have been undergone before the roundabout and the Crown were built. Some kind of plans would have been drawn up then. These often show the position of buildings being demolished to make way for the new construction.

Russia has 9 time zones, with a gap due to Belarus getting in the way and France 12 (honestly!)

This guide is helpful, if you are not aware of it already https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54145299

This guy has some interesting videos of old railway line walks etc. He explains the history as well as a thorough film of the remains. The latest is Watnall tunnel, but there are several others of local railway lines amongst his extensive geographic coverage https://www.youtube.com/c/TrekkingTowpaths/videos

Interesting and informative PDF on the Nottingham Canal here http://www.gwoodward.co.uk/nottinghamcanal.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0_JP4CQ3sUj1-fKzhaAC_N1VkJZkmHu1aIhWAtmPVErgIGzrVzmBEA0Xc

Fantastic video showing 'country folk' and market day in Newark with lots of 1940s street scenes

There's a story in the news that he inherited a view from his grandfather that any kind of illness is a sign of personal weakness. Indications are that he had the virus several days at the very least before he admitted the fact - quite possibly longer. This included attending the presidential debate and a garden party with crowds of people, lots of hugging, few face masks etc. Normally you only need oxygen in the later stages of the virus, not in the first few days. His staff refuse to say when he last had a negative test. Very suspicious IMHO

sorry, i must be mistaken. Apologies!

I suspect something may have changed over time, as the map I found seemed different - will have to check, but can't access it at the moment

The 18 started where the photo was taken and headed round Gainford Crescent and down Hucknall Road into the city. I suspect the conductor just forgot to change the number. Both the 17 and 18 went to Trinity Sq, so once the bus got to the City Hospital they were on the same route anyway.

Arnold Road looks right to me. The problem with Google street view is that it distorts images and makes distant things look much further away than they are. There are some houses in the right place on Landcroft that match the distinctive roofline of the houses in the background of the bus picture... https://www.google.com/maps/@52.994843,-1.1607642,3a,75y,195.57h,83.86t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1siSO0r4uz00QqN97P3yXxAg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DiSO0r4uz00QqN97P3yXxAg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D117.12703%

67A - Huntingdon St to Gedling station, a few extended to Grange Estate I think - timetable not very clear a 67 carried on to Arnold or Bulwell with short route fram Gedling to Hucknall in the 1959 timetable

We were discouraged from thinking illness could be Coronavirus even when the first test centres were opened. We were told that unless you had just returned from abroad or had been in close contact with someone who had just returned from abroad it couldn't be Coronavirus, so they didn't want you to go and be tested. I know of several friends who had 'flu' with strange symptoms in February but just shrugged it off. Only much later, when they read about similar symptoms from confirmed CV victims, did they even begin to suspect what it was.

An unfortunate lady in Nottingham got it first in the UK according to the latest news - at least until they find someone earlier https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/25/nottinghamshire-woman-75-may-be-first-known-uk-covid-victim SAdly she died from the disease, which is how they traced her records.

In political terms border controls for goods is more of an issue for the EC than for Johnson & his friends. I could imagine a scenario where we might deliberately hang back on imposing border controls on goods to/from EC countries. That way the EC would have to take the initiative and get all the blame - especially in Ireland.

Sometimes that sort of thing doesn't make any difference. Look at Irish independence, for example. They had an extremely tough time economically for 50+ years afterwards, which could have been foreseen, but it still happened.

I used to walk along Nottingham Road when I was young, past all those buildings, on my way to and from the old Butlers Hill Schools. I remember seeing some of the buildings being knocked down when they widened the road. I remember a big man with thick rimmed glasses often standing outside the house next to what is now Bestwood Road. He always seemed to have a flat cap and a thick overcoat on, whatever the weather. He always said hello, with a broad smile on his face when we passed by.

The origin of the disease is very difficult to work out. It was first publicised in China, but there is evidence of coronavirus elsewhere before the retrospectively-traced first cases there in October. There is a possibility at least that it was lurking in a number of places before the right conditions arose for an epidemic. The WHO is currently doing a detailed investigation. Spanish flu, immediately after WW1, is a good example of misrepresentation. It got a lot of publicity as Spanish newspapers were not censored at the time, whereas in most of Europe and America, news was suppr

Officially, it was identified in China in December 2019 as a new disease, but has been traced back subsequently to earlier in the year.

Recent evidence suggests that the virus has been out there for some time - and not just in China. Scientists have been testing old water samples in several European countries and found evidence of the virus from 2019. It is quite possible that it was out there in a form that people just didn't notice for some time. Even today many sufferers don't realise they had it. The serious cases were likely just assumed to be pneumonia. The virus differs slightly from one part of the world to another. Examining the different strains suggests that most UK infections came from places like Italy