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Nottingham station footbridge
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You can overlay one map onto the other and adjust the scales to match, like this
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Here's a 1933 photo showing the Crown being built. No roundabout then.
https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW043615
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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.
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Russia has 9 time zones, with a gap due to Belarus getting in the way and France 12 (honestly!)
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This guide is helpful, if you are not aware of it already
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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
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Interesting and informative PDF on the Nottingham Canal here
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Fantastic video showing 'country folk' and market day in Newark with lots of 1940s street scenes
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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
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sorry, i must be mistaken. Apologies!
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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
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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.
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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...
Where they bus is parked was the terminus of route 18, which also went to Trinity Sq. That would explain the clock. The 18 departed along Gainford Crescent.
The small domestic garage in the background is still there. I can't imagine anywhere else with so many similarities.
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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
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On 8/28/2020 at 6:52 AM, The Pianoman said:
I don't know anyone who has had it, unless I had it myself in a mild form early January and was unaware of what it was.
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.
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An unfortunate lady in Nottingham got it first in the UK according to the latest news - at least until they find someone earlier
SAdly she died from the disease, which is how they traced her records.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 suppressed. It is likely that it started in America a year or two earlier, but no one knows for sure.
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10 minutes ago, The Pianoman said:
I thought the reason it was called Covid-19 was to do with its 'discovery' in 2019.
Officially, it was identified in China in December 2019 as a new disease, but has been traced back subsequently to earlier in the year.
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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 and Spain, not China. Even if it wasn't in the UK last year, the sheer volume of holiday traffic to places like Northern Italy and Spain over Xmas/New Year could have brought loads of cases into the UK before we even knew it existed.
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Victoria Station & Great Central Railway
in Pete's Nottingham Transport Forum
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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)