The Pianoman

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  1. 34 minutes ago, Beekay said:

    That's what I mean. How can you call that a bike. Not only that but they've got the audacity to put pedals on it. I'd feel a prat and half riding that in Lewes. 

    These Just Eat and Deliveroo type riders seem to prefer these to get in every pedestrians way.

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  2. As a matter of interest, is it possible to replace rigid front forks with suspension forks? Just had a look on Decathlon and they all seem to be replacements for there own bikes. My bike has steel rigid curved forks. I seem to be getting a bit of arthritis in my wrists and I know about it after a while of riding.

  3. There are no three dots at the top of my screen and the picture of Robin and the Castle is just the centre band. The top half of the top row of words are missing and the bottom half of the bottom row of words are missing. Its been like that ages. A better idea, it looks like this:

     

    Opera-Snapshot-2023-07-20-130341-nottsta

  4. There's a thing. At the same time period (probably 1957-60) my parents had an Austin 8. Had it at Woodborough Road, then it moved us to Ford Street, and then it moved us to Eastwood. Dad sold it after we had been in Eastwood a few months because he thought the area was too posh for an owd 1939 Austin 8 only to realise afterwards that there was only about us and one or two others that had a car. We were just poor folk from St Anns!  :)

  5. Now I have had time to think about this, I used to tune a piano for someone on Flowery Leys Lane. This was a good few years ago now. To turn my car around I would drive to the bottom of the lane and into the 'L' shape that can be seen on the map CliffTon provided. The school was then smack in front of you in the 'toe' of the L shape. I am probably going back to 1990 or earlier. Am I right?

  6. Thanks for that. I have been into General Cemetery on a number of occasions to find his grave but have not been able to. All I know is that it is at the top end. You have solved a mystery. With regard to him (no relation to me) having been in a Bantam battalion, he must have been happy to have found his wife, (later my grandmother) as she was only 4' 11".