The Pianoman

Welcome to the forum Malcolm, from another Malcolm with a brace of P4 Rovers, both 100's. One of mine is also a Nottingham City registered car owned for many years by John Herbert, a jeweller. Just one thing though, whilst your car would have most likely have been supplied by C H Truman, at the time yours was registered and up to sometime in the 1960's C H Truman were on Mansfield Road/corner of Bluecoat Street. Huntingdon Street came later. Give me a while and I should be able to find more info on Trumans.

Notts and Derby Traction. I'd catch that to get back hom'!

Spot on. The picture is looking towards Watnall and Ikea would be just off the left hand end of the picture. Forty Bridges was demolished in 1973 to make way for the A610 Eastwood and Kimberley bypass that was then built slightly further north than planned. IMHO (and many others) Forty Bridges should have been preserved IMHO (but not so many others) in preference to Bennerley Viaduct. I appreciate the significance of Bennerley viaduct but I am afraid to me it is an eyesore.

BR Standard loco in the rarely photographed Awsworth Station. Forty Bridges visible in the background. Loco is pointing towards Derby (Friargate GN). Judging by the sate of the loco I guess it is in the last days of steam.

Insurance job

They actually have 4 gauges. NSMEE have 3½". 5" and 7¼". Then the museum itself has full sized stuff that they are hoping to get through to Loughborough one day when the bridge is built. Its well a visit especially if you go when NSMEE have a steaming day. Oh and hello Jomino

It was the same when Ikea re-opened. They were queuing all the way around Giltbrook Retail Parks car park - not just Ikeas bit!

Rover 3 litre is (was) overhead inlet side exhaust. Nowt rong weeit . It was originally done that way so as to get the biggest possible valves into the small bore long stroke engines of the day.

Here's a photo of one of mine on my drive. 1962 Rover 100

Rover also did a 10hp in pretty much the same body.

That one seems to live where it is photographed. I have seen it on many occasions over a long period of time. I haven't had the chance to photograph it otherwise I would have done. People have taken pictures of my cars in various places. How can I object?

1389 cc confirms that it is 12hp

That car lives on Cromford Hill. I think the colour is a bit 'adventurous for a Rover of that era. It is a Rover 12 Saloon c.1945-47.

I met The Tramp a couple of times in Long Eaton. I believe he has died.

I earn my keep as a piano tuner and restorer, although not so much of it nowadays. I have been Pianoman to a fair few people for a very long time.

I think that people who are furloughed should be made to do proper lockdown. They are just taking it as a paid holiday and doing as they like without any consideration. I don't include everybody in that statement of course. There is just too much traffic on the roads and too many people out.

Awsworth and Cossall Remembered. it is a private group. There is also Awsworth the Good Old Days.

This picture has just turned up on Facebook. This is the last arch of Forty Bridges to be demolished and is the first arch of the viaduct that went over Awsworth Lane?/Main Street Awsworth. The photographer could very well have been standing in Bridges Van Hire car park. It is the same arch as in my earlier post with the Mk2 Consul going through but viewed from the opposite side. I assume it would have been taken in 1966

That was almost necessary

Well I went in Morrisons a couple of hours ago. There was this woman down one isle. I wouldn't say she was fat but the only way to practice social distancing was to go down a different isle!

I have mentioned elsewhere that I do a few hours a day as a Hermes courier. Lockdown is educating people into online shopping. Parcel numbers are starting to drop but I very much doubt that it will drop to pre-Easter levels.

I'm pretty sure Foulds was Derby only long before '92. I'll stand corrected if I am wrong tho'

Well I got sick of reading this thread. Bit like watching TV news where all news reporters know better than professionals in the medical field.

My father had a Mk1 consul which was RAU 56. That was 1953

I remember the one on Valley Road. It finally ceased because of constant vandalism with no support from either police or city council. They now run at Ruddington and are the Nottingham Society of Model and Experimental Engineers.