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I was on he tram last Thursday going into town two schoolgirls were playing loud music on the phone a chap asked them if they would turn it down he then suffered continual verbal abuse for the rest of the trip and guess where the schoolgirls got off The girls high school standards have certainly gone downhill these days meeowed
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anyone know what is happening to the statue of the old general on Radford road I saw it being taken away last Thursday the 8th meeowed
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does anyone know what is going to happen to the old general statue saw it was being taken away last Friday Bill meeowed
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I pay £30 for just broadband on virgin when I asked about the speed increase the office in town would not even look at the letter Then he said that it was a generic letter whatever that's supposed to mean and also that the modem was capable of those speeds customer service is still rubbish meeowed
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my father worked for railway and general in the forties He was a moulder for cast iron products They made street nameplates manhole covers he did say that he made some lampposts on Trent bridge but I don't know for sure Bill meeowed
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Ray overhauled a large Christ Craft marine engine and it was so tight he put it on a test bench and put 24 volts through the starter to fire the thing up it duly struck up with the most horrendous racket We were ordered not to turn it off and it ran all afternoon with our heads ringing He later took me to the flats near the suspension bridge where this MontiCarlo type launch was moored He then decides to paddle this launch down river to the British Water Ways wharf near Trent bridge I was nervous to say the least not being able to swim but he assured me all would go well After paddling downstream at a fair rate of knots we arrived at the crane only to find the all our efforts were making little progress against the current He was valiantly encouraging me to paddle faster as we were making snail like progress Well we eventually got there and I had to ascend a long iron ladder up to the wharf I have feared water ever since Great times in the life of a teenage apprentice God bless you ray they don't make em like you anymore Bill meeowed
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Hi Ray its bill I was your apprentice at Holbrooks garage I didn't know you were still top side the grass I am now 75 What great days you were the greatest mechanic I ever had the pleasure of working with I remember your picture in the post when you retired from Zipser motors down Trent bridge I would love to meet you again I guess it would be Williams son that posted the garage photo Do you remember taking the gearbox out of a French Delahaye I was gob smacked I never thought you would get it back together What great times with Taff and Johnny Lambert Some of the motors we worked on would be priceless now I went to Australia as a mechanic but am now back in Nottingham I hope you are keeping well all the best Bill
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Vera continued to serve in the tryst bar at the Strathdon for a while but her rather abrasive manner did not sit well with the more up market customers. the last time I saw her was many years ago shopping at Sneinton market she would walk round the tables and deliver a clip round the ear saying that was for nothing wait until you do something. A woman who would have no time for the pc riddled crowd of today we shall not see her type again sadly. meowed
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I worked at chapel bar in the late sixties with ken hicks as the manager he was ok but upper management was clueless they threw thousands of pounds at it Then moved lock stock and barrel to abbey bridge only to go back to chapel bar just before closure the Simca 1000 was the best of the bunch a rear engine box shaped contraption then the 1100 front wheel drive which was the fore runner of the ford fiesta as fords had shares in the company I suspect ken would be long gone by now as I am 75 a long time ago they had garages at Wollaton vale with Wilf Humphreys and Trent bridge with Dennis Orange and Woodborough road on Mapperly plains At chapel bar the Albert hotel was our favourite meeting place run by a fearsome woman called vera she could throw out a crowd of unruly football supporters single handed meeowed
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in reply to a previous post edgar Jessop was right I used to get spares from atkeys on church st lenton they then moved to the building on the railway bridge at Radford bottom of Ilkeston road the counter man had an amazing memory he knew every part number for anything you went in for meeowed
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the photo of holbrooks garage you can just see the rear of your grandfathers sunbeam Talbot 90 he also used to be friends with howitts the printers and they had a large twin diesel cruiser that was moored near trent bridge we had to refuel it with 5 gallon jerry cans when they were off for a gin palace cruise to Newark we also did the engine overhaul on a large six seater speed boat a real monte carlo job never thought I would see a picture of the garage thanks so much
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I worked for your grandfather from leaving school in 1955 he was a great boss He used to race speed boats at stoke bardolph and as a youngster we had to clean and polish the underneath of the hull to make it go faster I worked under Ray Rossling who was an incredible mechanic he would tackle anything he later went on to car sales for zipzer motors at trent bridge I saw motors Clarkson would die for your grandfather was rather portly a distinct disadvantage when it came to racing he once took me out sat on the side of the speed boat as they were only single seat I have never been so terrified in all my life how he got it turned round on the trent I cant imagine wonderful memories of the best job I ever had you must be vey proud of him
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hi all I worked on everyone of those motors and trucks in the photo at least you could mend stuff in those days They would go mental if you fitted a new part Bill meeowed
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hi everyone I worked in 1955 at Holbrookes garage on Wollaton street next door was a blacksmith who used to make new leafs for road springs he was called Frank really grumpy chap I recall then at Blue star garage at the junction of Alferton road and Radford boulervard famous for its battery sales then the coop at chapel bar on the end of coop house and then to Wheelhouse on mapperly plains best job I ever had driving cars that Clarkson would die for Blue star garages were numerous in the fifties they had adverts on Tv am an old man now and if I lift the bonnet on my car now I don't recognise anything how times have changed Bill
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Hi everyone the John Andrew Marsden at 12 redoubt st was the one that was my mothers father I didn't know he was in the RFA There were two branches of Nix family Erica Beardsmore was a nix so was the chip shop owner on Bobbers Mill but it was a separate branch
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Thank you for your replies I have had trouble getting signed in but I hope it is ok now I didn't know about Hyson green my sister was married there and my fathers mother lived on Bulwer road her name was Florence Nix my uncle lived in Chesil avenue Jim Beazely lots knew him as big Jim He played the drums in the pub I think it was the Gregory corner of Ilkeston Road and Radford boulevard I had good times in Radford as a boy thanks again Bill
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Hi Bugsy sorry about the delay in contacting anyone but could not get signed in hopefully fixed now my grandfather served in 2nd/1st berks bty 158 brigade RHA He was killed 2nd of April 1918 age 34 He was a gunner He is buried at Duisan near Arras He lived on Citadel street Radford I have visited the grave but can find no record of him on any memorial here apart from the book of the war dead in the council house My grandfather on my mothers side was Andrew Marsden he lived on Redoubt street and survived the war but was badly gassed I have no trace of his war record but I think he was either cavalry or RHA he was always involved with horses we come from the Nix family at ledgers yard Radford
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thank you all so much for your replies I did visit his grave at duisan and will try the archives at wilford road the family tributes are correct and I have a picture of him signing on for the army at Derby road drill hall thank you all Bill
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thanks for your replies from what I have learned recently it seems the memorial at all souls Radford was destroyed when the church was demolished I found his grave at Arras Flanders my father never knew there was one I would like to get his name on a memorial here he was William Nix a gunner in the RHA 158 brigade he died 2nd of a April 1918 age 34 he lived on citadel street Radford I checked St Peters memorial and the new web site all to no avail I spent my childhood in Radford around Redoubt street remember the beeroff and the sweet shop and teleradio shop I am now 73 so not much time left to complete this task
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totally new at this and struggling can anyone help with what happened to ww1 memorial plaque when the church was demolished I was told my grandfathers name was on it as he is not on any memorial in Nottingham as far as I know it was all souls church Radford
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the documents I saw in the angel row library clearly stated that they entered via the deer park that would be the rope walk the present mortimers hole was just a service passage for the castle supplies meeowed