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The most common explanation I have heard is that the house or houses were made of wood - but surely many houses would have been made of wood in olden days? It would not have been that unusual even in towns. Could have been a house in a wood, I suppose?

Starting 5th August there is an exhibition about the Black Boy Hotel at the Nottingham Industrial Museum at Wollaton Hall.Includes a scale model. It is on at weekends throughout August, I believe.

Mine seem to be unaffected so far, so definitely leaving as is. I just won't use them for new images - signed up to two other sites to spread the risk.

I read that the McColls deal was to get rid of a few stores that didn't fit their portfolio. Otherwise, new stores seem to be springing up all over the place. It would be ironic if this flood of new "corner shops" killed off the supermarkets in the long run

Just seen that tonight. It was brilliant! Make sure you do see it whenever you can.

Several old GN lines have been converted to footpaths. You can walk from Moor Bridge to the outskirts of Hucknall, Linby to Annesley and Sutton to Pleasley if you are feeling particularly energetic

... and then you read that they've died

A national map of hill forts has just been published online. https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/ Yo need to be good at geography to find places, but it shows quite a few north of Nottingham and in the Derbyshire borders.

Looks remarkably like St Andrews on Mansfield Road Nottingham

Mansfield wasn't far behind, as the Mansfield & Pinxton line had a horse drawn service from 1832. The station has been rebuilt twice but is still more or less on the same site.

Some of those West Bridgford buses look like they are from a different age by the late 1960s. You almost expect a man with a red flag to be walking in front of them

When I was very young, a large lady arrived at our house with a very large bag. That evening I was shown my younger sister for the very first time. When I asked who the big lady was, dad told me that she was the midwife and she had come to deliver my sister. When I thought about it, it was obvious - my sister had been delivered in that very large bag

Saw ROC5Y last year at my local filling station, on a very expensive car.......Saw the driver too - no prizes for guessing who it was.

Bestwood station building still exists, but is barely recognisable. It has been extended and an extra storey added to turn it into a house. The GNR had a bridge over the Midland branch to Bestwood colliery and ironworks.

There is definitely a smallpox hospital marked on pre-ww2 maps near where the infants school later was.

Answering my own question The initial livery of the Mansfield tramcars was red and cream. In 1908, two nearly new Brush tramcars (Nos. 19 and 20), built in 1905-6, were purchased from the Cavehill and Whitewell Tramway which operated on the outskirts of Belfast; these arrived in Mansfield still in their light green and cream livery. The green and cream livery became the standard for all the Balfour Beatty & Co. Ltd. group of companies and, eventually, all the Mansfield tramcars were repainted into those colours. From http://midlandgeneralomnibus.weebly.com/mansfi

Nottingham Road, Mansfield also had trams. Not sure what colour they were.

Looks as close to Bulwell as Watnall.

There were some good engineering drawings and plans of the London Road end of the viaducts in 'The Engineer' around 1899-1900. I have a copy of the relevant pages somewhere on my PC but can't find them just at the moment.

So, have they managed to fit this new wall of galaxies on a single page, or is it a double spread? Will the post lady be able to push it through my letterbox? Either way, it's the most remarkable thing so far described in these pages.

If I were travelling at the speed of light I would be too busy looking where I was going to worry about what was disappearing behind me One of the arguments for it being dark at night is that much of the light from stars hasn't reached us yet. The Universe only lit up a long time after it was formed and by then the distant stars were a long way away - and generally speeding away from us.

There may well be a stronger belief in flat earth now than there ever was. There are forums and other things on the Web these days spreading the word. There are quite a few people out there today who really do believe the Earth is flat. Like HERE

The unpredictability is all part of the fun.

Lots of things are very mysterious without quantum physics, like how plants get so much energy out of photosynthesis. Even our sense of smell, which people thought had been sussed out a very long time ago turns out not to work the way we were all told at school. Quantum Physics is everywhere!

I remember there was a hardware shop next to the bus shelter on the opposite side of the road to The Byron - more or less opposite where Lloyd's Bank is now. No idea what the name was though.