notty ash
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Maybe a spelling error - Mottingham?
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I'm no expert, but those flat rooves shout 'London' to me.
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...............except that it doesn't follow the same route at all. Both go from Station Street to the Old Market Square, but only the short section along the end of the square is common to both routes. After the Old Market Square, they go off on completely different routes again.
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The proliferation of new car dealerships in former times is quite amazing. I guess in the days before conglomerates like Btitish Leyland, there were lots of independent makes to sell.
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The RCTS Mystery Photos site has loads of photos of Nottingham Victoria and surrounds. Apologies if it has been mentioned in this topic before.
http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/index.htm?location=Nottingham%20Victoria&page=1
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I think the Midland Railway was just going through a phase of doing covered concourses for its major stations. Sheffield Midland also had one - though without the tower, but with more open arches.
http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic/6852-aerial-view-of-sheffield-midland/
http://www.nrm.org.uk/ourcollection/photo?group=Derby&objid=1997-7397_DY_1706
The site at one end of the station on a bridge over the railway tracks might dictate that Nottingham and Leicester ought to be similar.
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Leicester was rebuilt in 1892-4, so there was a substantial gap between the two. A E Lambert was the architect of the new Nottingham station. He also designed Nottingham Victoria. Leicester was designed by Charles Trubshaw.
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I went to Beauvale Priory today - they are doing guided tours as part of the Heritage Weekend. I found it very interesting.
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It must work well for the average family with 2.5 children though
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The Evening Post website says about the new trams..........
"They will have space for 58 seated passengers and 144 standing passengers, meaning each tram will be able to transport 201 people."
........Eh?
The trams are made in Barcelona, which is part of Catalonia - a region keen to get independence from Spain. We should be happy to support them
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The correct term is chippings, just in case you need to use it again
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When I was young, there used to be blue enamel signs all over the place for "Mazawattee Tea" around where my aunt lived in East Anglia. Never tried it though.
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I would go back to around 1820, to see what Notts & Derbyshire looked like before the Industrial Revolution took hold.
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Most Chippies here list just list "Fish" on their menu boards.
... and how can they call themselves chippies if they don't list chips?
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Yes, the BBC were making big news of it for being such a huge rise of only 4p!
It's free on Christmas Day and Boxing Day though, I think.
There is a list of toll bridges here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_toll_bridges - another one close by being the Humber Bridge.
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Pkt calculator all you tap in was + × ÷ -
I think they were 1970s, rather than 1960s - the first pocket calculator in the whole world wasn't introduced until 1970. There were electric calculators before then, but only large cumbersome ones for office use.
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Was it the actual gas we smelt when passing the gasworks though? If so, they must have been letting a lot escape.
I would guess it was more the smell of the production process itself. There were many other side-products of gas production, including coke, ammonia, hydrogen sulphide and hydrogen cyanide.
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Yup that's the sound. Just shown this thread to my Wife: she thinks we're all mad, lol..
Well, aren't we?
Now all we need to find is a website that reproduces the smell of Basford Gasworks and trolleybuses
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For a Bedford, try this one
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I certainly remember hearing a Commer coach once and thinking how odd it sounded!
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Thanks for info Stephen. All these combinations of engine & gearboxes are quite complicated but interesting (well they are to me anyway.) When I lived in Bestwood Village & in bed, I could always tell when a Midland General Bristol Lo-decker (B8) was pulling away from the end of Park Road by the noise it made..
Didn't Bristol Lodekkas have several totally different engines, including Bristol's own, Gardner with different numbers of cylinders (odd as well as even) and Leyland?
I seem to think the Bristol engines were 2-stroke, though I may be imagining things.
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I notice the site that soundtrack came from has several other local bus recordings, including Barton, Trent, Derby and Gash vehicles.
http://www.old-bus-photos.co.uk/wp-content/themes/Old-Bus-Photos/videos/videos_main_page.php
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Was Central garage just down the road from the Post office, opposite Frank Sissons? I have a hazy memory of something set back, some sort of workshop, probably where you can walk up to the car park on Piggins Croft now, next to Wilkinsons. There used to be a little path up the side to the old croft before the council slapped a compulsory purchase order on it. Our house used to back onto the croft and we used to play there. Scrumping apples and fishing for tadpoles in the brook that ran through it....All that and I was only 5 when we left!!!!
That's it. Here s a map
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Thanks for the link Bamber. When I was a kid (60's) the corpo buses going to the Mapperley area from slab square used to have a strange whining noise, anyone know why?
It was a characteristic of AEC buses - Leylands always had a growl.
Images of Nottingham from different periods
in Images of Nottingham
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Wilford Power Station wasn't opened until 1925 - see http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5806#entry72233, whereas the street scene looks pre-ww1 at a guess? Also, the roof looks a lot less tidy that the one in the above photo.
I would still put my money on it being somewhere in London