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The Nottingham post today gives a finishing date of june for the first world war memorial hopefully my grandfather will be on it well done everyone meeowed
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The fact he is on around £88000 is bad enough then there is around half a dozen of his cronies on around £60000 who take the flak for him when it all goes pear shaped Theres no wonder we are paying more and more for less police why would you want to discourage speeding when its such a major money earner Since the speed cameras were semi privatized they have been awash with money so much so that the police once got a percentage of the money raised but now it all goes direct to the treasury When the daily mail investigated the selling of of the speed camera network they were told that the cost of the set up and camera would be recovered within two hours of the camera becoming operational and what did the government do with all that money they made cuts to the police meeowed
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they wont be able to go out if its raining they would go all soggy All the drivers would be doing Norman Colliers act We would be better off with Rowan Atkinson
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I see Paddy Tipping has surfaced again He wants cardboard police cars now brilliant is this what they mean by thinking outside the box meeowed
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Many years ago my auntie spent all morning looking for her son only to find out later that he was watching her all the time from the top of that gasometer ha ha
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I see that the Gatwick fiasco cost the taxpayer four hundred thousand and no one was caught Its interesting that three hundred thousand was spent on overtime and working rest days Police value for money again ?
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There is a plumbers shop opposite the radford road cop shop He had some paintings of the original castle hanging up it was quite spectacular in its day meeowed
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The mechanical horse must have been a restoration as they were long gone by the 80s There were loads in the 60s down wilford road I think they also did a later model with a rounded front When i was a kid they were like bees running about and even railway horse and carts meeowed
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I once came back from london on the m1 in the 1980s to suddenly find cars and wagons going everywhere when the mayhem subsided theres a mechanical horse doing all of 20 mph near newport pagnall meeowed
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An old mate of mine now long gone used to drive the Notts and Derby trolley bus He had a piece of the overhead line when they were scrapped it was solid copper about half inch thick He knew the weight per mile it was tons You always knew it was a Notts and Derby trolleybus even on foggy days they used to hiss I took him down to Bournemouth where they had one they were restoring they were hoping to run it at the Black country museum track He once told me that the fog got so bad they parked up at valley road and went to the pictures across the road When they came out the fog had cleared and they got suspended meeowed
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It must be spring Paddy Tipping has emerged from hibernation I was getting worried We lost the tortoise last year meeowed
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I saw an old picture of mitchells garage on one thread at the junction of gregory blvd and radford road I used to get spares from them when they were down lenton then they moved to ilkeston road just over the railway bridge I remember the parts chap had a remarkable memory he knew all the part numbers he would fetch anything to the counter never needed the book Meeowed
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The foreman and I went in a bubble car he came whistling in to the garage and up to the work bench only to find there was no reverse gear couldnt open the door to get out I had to climb out the roof and shove it backwards we also got a bond mini car going it would spin round and round in its own length blanked all the garage out with smoke meeowed
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I was still at school think it was yellow it didnt run in service for long i recall the trolley bus only used to slow down some times at the stop you had to hop off the exit platform I went on the one at sandtoft lots of memories came back I was amazed how low the roof was but then I was only little when I used to ride them On the long seats my feet didnt used to reach the floor and the rumble of the poles at the junctions meeowed
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Anyone remember a single decker trolley bus being trialed I think it would be in the fifties it ran on the nottingham road route basford I think I was still at school I remember it had very long poles meeowed
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The drabbles dyers van is heading for the goose fair site thats the end of gregory blvd I believe meeowed
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You wouldnt want to argue with that lot ha ha meeowed
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I seem to recall that the tram was going to rejuvenate Radford road They are still going with the old general conversion looks like it will be ready for the next century meeowed
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I am not wishing to decry Vauxhall they made the one you see as a taxi in heartbeat which used to have an assortment of rods and levers on the steering column gear change it either left you with a box of neutrals or worse still trying to select two gears at the same time not good They seemingly didnt learn any lessons when they produced the bedford doormobile that came with a similar column gearshift which used to shear off Mechanics remedy was to take out a pair of mole grips clamp this to the column to enable you to drive it back to the garage But saying all that I had a p plate astra that did 120 000 miles and never left me at the side of the road once brilliant car I think that the Vauxhall 2000 was the first belt driven camshaft it would be rare today meeowed
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Thats right its now lidils my mate worked there many years ago meeowed
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The victor was the first car I drove on the M1 when it started at crick near leicester I had a mk 2 zodiac great car 70 mph all day with your arm round your tart meeowed
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quite right couldnt remember the difference They were nice to drive and reliable and the fact you could take the bonnet off easily made it a mechanics favourite but they never seemed to take off cant remember seeing many of them The bane with Vauxhall was parts everytime you went to Oscrofts you had to order parts They never seemed to carry much stock Then came the notorius fp victor which descended in to a pile of rust just driving over a damp patch and the Cresta was no better I mot tested one for a pensioner it shone like a shilling up a sweeps a--- only to find it rotten as a pear underneath it wanted major surgery far beyond the finances of a pensioner my forman had the victor he did bodywork and spraying every weekend he was patching it up all to no avail it went rotten faster than he could patch it meeowed
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They filmed the chip shop scene on berridge road a neighbour at the time was paid to sit on the bus outside I rember seeing the female lead sat on a chair at the bottom of the street having her make up done meeowed
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quite right couldnt remember the difference They were nice to drive and reliable and the fact you could take the bonnet off easily made it a mechanics favourite but they never seemed to take off cant remember seeing many of them The bane with Vauxhall was parts everytime you went to Oscrofts you had to order parts They never seemed to carry much stock Then came the notorius fp victor which descended in to a pile of rust just driving over a damp patch and the Cresta was no better I mot tested one for a pensioner it shone like a shilling up a sweeps a--- only to find it rotten as a pear underneath it wanted major surgery far beyond the finances of a pensioner my forman had the victor he did bodywork and spraying every weekend he was patching it up all to no avail it went rotten faster than he could patch it meeowed
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Top of Woodborough Road - Mapperley
in Kat's Carlton, Mapperley, Arnold & Sherwood Forum
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I worked for chick in the seventies great bloke he would barter all day for fifty quid I worked on some great cars sad loss when he passed on One of the old school meeowed