Bilbraborn

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  1. Benjamin. Is that B17 nameplate still at City Ground?
  2. I know past members of my family were involved in fastening extra horses to trams at the bottom of chapel bar to help them up the hill. Obviously before electric trams. They also had to unhitch them at the top and bring them back down for the next tram. I think the operatives were just boys and doubled as points switchers.
  3. Couldn't have been dropped by a Scotsman. They all reckon they're as poor as church mice.
  4. Trevor and Lizzie? who needs best sellers. Well done you two.
  5. Compo got that book for my birthday a couple of years ago. Ashley, we walked the Thomas North railway also. I have done a lot of research into the railway and the mines it served. Very interesting topic.
  6. Don't forget that we learned about the British Empire and the army regiments from the LMS engines.
  7. Well that's it Compo. My wife took one look and it was love at first sight.
  8. Because Sue (or Susan) is a PROPER name!
  9. I remember going on the Waltzers with the girls in our group because they were so terrified they would cling to us.
  10. Sneinton Dale! WOW! My introduction was when I started work as a Lab assistant at St Bernadette's school early in 1968. I was there for two years before I realised the pay was crap.
  11. Try telling that to commuters in the south.
  12. Pete! You always were that lucky. When I started at Nottingham CS in 1988 the four sidings nearest the mainline (or down goods) on the London Road side were no longer connected to the mainline at the east end. They were numbered 1 to 4GN (ie 1GN, 2GN etc). Apart from the paper train we didn't have regular business in the other London Road sidings although we had to fetch stuff from time to time, so we had to have thorough knowledge of the layout and also signalling over there. The GN roads were often used to store week-end stock during the week. We did have two sets of early mark 1 stock
  13. Have so many of his books and the likes of him and Frank Stevenson encouraged me to do some photography of my own.
  14. It wasn't just the colours but also the lining which made coaches and locomotives look so interesting. As well as the 'nuts and bolts' appearance of the stock.
  15. PeverilPeveril, Look at how many people kill spiders because they are 'creepy'. NO THEY ARE NOT!!!! They kill filthy houseflies. So bees have no chance. Two years ago we had wasps in the cavity of the house we were renting. Problem was, they kept finding their way into the kitchen so they had to go. My son is absolutely terrified of bees and wasps. Years ago, workmen replacing soffits and facias found a HUGE redundant wasps nest above his bedroom. Good job he wasn't aware of it.
  16. I have asked around some of my family whose roots are in Radford but have no memory of such a place. Some places had local names which were often referred to verbally but were never officially named such.
  17. Current Nottingham Post Bygones supplement has a double page article about Bilborough Grammar in the 1960s including photos with one or two people that I knew.
  18. Nottingham Post Bygones newspaper has photos of Nottingham Victoria taken by a student who lived in digs nearby and managed to record the dying days.
  19. Favourite livery got to be Caledonian (the carriage colours). Great Western locos had great colour also. If you want to see old track ironwork look in sidings. I remember seeing really ancient stuff at Etches Park, Derby. For the station with the most pre-grouping companies using it try Carlisle Citadel. The following could be seen circa 1900............... London & North Western Railway, Caledonian Railway, Glasgow and South Western Railway, Cumbrian Railway,; Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway, Maryport and Carlisle Railway, North British Railway, Midland Railway and mayb
  20. I was there too. Playing Leeds United.
  21. I remember him at BGS. He was a nice fellah.
  22. Pixie. Get a book and record all your children's milestones and keep looking back to see how they are progressing. Sure bringing up kids is boring. But it isn't really. Just while they are very young you can become tied down a bit. When they become more mobile and independent, you will find things a lot less boring.