Bilbraborn

It'll be here soon.

My road is residents only - 9 til 5 weekdays. Except nobody polices it and we still can't get parking if we arrive home between 3 and 3:30pm because of school pick-ups.

Hi Simon. I am very interested in your local history group. You will be hearing from me.

In the 50s and 60s, the railway was one of the biggest employers in most towns. Each station (large or small) had porters, shunters, signalmen, station master mostly for three shifts along with RD reliefs and GP reliefs. Not to mention Drivers, Firemen, cleaners, buffet staff and track men. Then there were fitters and engineers.

I wouldn't feel safe late at night anyway.

Our school swimming lessons were at those baths. Trouble was, the chlorine used to badly affect my eyes.

Glad someone else has a wife like mine.

If you do put my name down for a (autographed) copy.

People DO park where they want on the school run.

Welcome Lovelace and have fun.

..................then it would be like he's never been gone................

Firbeck always seemed to know what was happening on the steam scene. It was a pleasure to knock around with him and visit loco sheds, derelict railways, walk across derelict viaducts. Just recently I went to visit my son and his new girlfriend at Kirk Hallam. I told them about the times we cycled around the roads which criss-crossed the ironworks, and the myriad of railways and collieries which were once where Shipley Country Park is located. They were amazed as everything is so different now. On a lighter note, maybe Firbeck can remember when we cycled along the narrow roads near Sta

Bread & sugar - YES! Still have rhubarb and sugar now and again. I have always enjoyed eating Bramley cooking apples RAW.

Fight it Blondie. Don't let it beat you.

Happy days eh Chulla?

Fantastic pics Pete. I remember the MGR train derailing under Trowell bridge during the late 80s. My son and I went down in the pouring rain to have a look.

I am a fan of Billy Fury. We were robbed when he died. I have loads of his music on my PC.

Interesting thing. When I was on the railway, we had a train driver in Nottingham called Christopher Lee and one in London called Peter Cushing. We also had a boss called Richard Head but that is another story.

I started as a carriage cleaner at Nottingham Carriage Sidings in 1978. I applied for a vacancy as a Senior Railman Carriage shunter at the same location in 1980. I got the job and spent the next five years shunting the same trains I used to clean. Every week-day morning we dispatched two trains to Glasgow and five to London, mostly mark 1 stock hauled by class 45s. The London trains gradually acquired mark 2E and Mark 2F air conditioned stock. This as well as the summer holiday trains. As the sidings became run down during the early 80s, coal mines closed and all our freight diagrams were tr

Add my name to the list of people who love to see photos on this site.

The other one came up for auction not long ago. The name plates of ex-GWR Bulwell Hall and Wollaton Hall are both at the Wollaton Park industrial Museum. As is the nameplate off Stanier Pacific (better known to us kids as Semis) City of Nottingham. That is unless someone has swiped them.

Always be a shrine to us GCR - ites.

RIP . Not just Dracula. Among many other things, Count Dookoo. A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

Pete! There is one part of me that has never changed in 50 years. I am always up for any photos that you (or anyone else) posts of steam around Notts in the 60s. Keep'em coming.

Chulla he still needed to get back down there. Probably hitched a lift.