Bilbraborn
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Did you have a friend called Freddie?
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Railway sleepers at the storage depot near Lenton Junction sometime in the 70s. I remember seeing Lenton Flats silhouetted in the glow.
Going back even further to the mid fifties when I was very young. We had been to Central Market where my Dad bought an apple tree (a Cox) and when we emerged there was a massive commotion nearby. It was the council rent office on fire. It was just around the corner then. I might have been young but I well remember huge flames and the firemen holding all these women back who were shouting 'Burn! Burn!.
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Good to have you back Pixie. My wife went through hell having our children. Apart from miscarriages, our first had Phoetal Distress as he was about to be born and had to be fetched out quickly and revived. As a result my wife had to have lots of stitches and was ill for some time. When son number two was conceived, she had trouble carrying him and he was born prem by weight (not time) and the midwife terrified me by giving him to me to hold - he was so tiny. Visit the barbers shop on Highbury Road Bulwell and see him. You wouldn't believe how tiny he was at birth.
My wife says it was all worth it. Although they are now grown up and with families of their own, she adores them.
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I am a member of a similar Forum in Glasgow where I used to live but the posting format is quite different and it's not so vibrant as this one.
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Notty Ash. I did all those walks with my grand-daughter and many more besides, including most of the Chesterfield canal that is still in existence. She walks the flippin' legs off me these days. We even walked the old (LD&ECR) railway line from Ollerton to Fledborough and beyond through some of the wildest scenery in Nottinghamshire. This is impossible now as it has been turned into a test track and is used by trains regularly.
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Did you hear Dolly Parton on the News saying 'Ayup meduck' ? With an American accent.
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I can think of several words like facetious etc but I'll stick with loving. I asked my wife and she laughed and said Privileged. I wonder what she meant.
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Michael I don't know when it happened, but it probably closed because it was committing that crime of manufacturing stuff in the UK.
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Then there was the day the bowling green at Raleigh social club dropped.
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You only live twice. (or maybe not)
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I remember it well Albert. In its last days it was a trip working hauled by a jocko (08 shunt engine). I was working at the adjacent Nottingham Carriage sidings in the early 80s when the trip working finished. Even the goods line has gone now.
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I can remember houses on Western Boulevard tipping forward.
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Pixie! You are truly blessed. I hope your time with your children will be as happy with the time I had with mine. (all grown up and fled the nest now).
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Coal is like everything else. If no-one buys it, it will not sell and the industry disappears. And as for foreign coal? We all buy as cheaply as we can. Besides, those luverly people in Europe want all coal fired power stations shut down.
As the price of gas and electric rises, more people won't be able to afford it. I suppose it is a sure way of reducing the population.
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Definitely for earning money. But I dare say the councils would say that if we are daft enough to speed, then we deserve to pay. For some, speed humps are better but we have them outside our house. Empty lorries going to the industrial estate nearby keep us awake so we would prefer cameras if there must be something. The humps mean motorcyclists can get away with it.
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Welcome and have fun. (from someone who loves the Great Little Trains of Wales).
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Most people around here don't use the letter 'T'.
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Who gives a monkeys?
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Ah well. When I get a minute I'll have to scuttle up there and have a look. It's only round the corner.
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Like a sort of electric - automatic gearbox (if that makes sense).
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Re#43, a lot of stations were built a long way from the community it served (obviously because of the location of the railway). In those days people didn't mind walking a couple of miles to the station. One of the worst was Burgh-Le-Marsh near Skegness. Now that was quite a distance.
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Come on Catfan, talk to me. Here I am waiting in suspenders. (sorry. I mean suspense).
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Re #72. I would have thought there would have been a system to over-ride this. Given that they were built for town traffic. I suppose it's similar to diesel buses overheating after crawling along in low gear. (In fact some of those in Glasgow that I drove often did overheat). However, in one of my local history books called 'Nottingham Then', there is a photograph of a Trolleybus on fire on London Road.
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Nottingham Victoria Station was probably handier for the city centre than the Midland. That said, The GCR was built across the grain of the land in Nottinghamshire. This would have made it extremely expensive to quadruple the track, Think of the civil engineering. Starting with the tunnel through the Robin Hood Hills, Bulwell Viaduct,, then the huge embankments across the Daybrook Valley, the three tunnels through Nottingham and the long viaduct across the Meadows. Those three tunnels were real bottlenecks. Just think of the coast of widening them.
BUT WOULDN"T IT HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!.
In its heyday you could have got a train to almost anywhere (and if Edward Watkin had got his way even Europe). Engines from the GWR, LNER, LMS and of course the LNER were regular visitors. Indeed the York/Bournemouth was often seen with green (southern) carriages.
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Growing up in Bilborough
in General Chat about Nottingham
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No it was on Beechdale Road not far up from the Beechdale pub, going towards Broxtowe.