Bilbraborn
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And in pieces.
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re #228. In the fifties when my Grandad represented Wollaton Ward in the labour party, we would all be dressing up coal lorries for the May day parade.
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Whatever.
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Here's to the next 3,000.
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Mine's beyond being put right.
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Sorry folks. I repent. I mean WELLIES!!!
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Welcome Tony and have fun.
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Never mind demons. My wife is always after me.
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Tompa, I remember such conditions, and my mum and dad were brought up in Radford. My dad on Croyden Road and my mum on Salisbury Street. By the time I came along things were looking better, but my grandma on Salisbury Street, and my Aunts on Bright Street and Denman Street still had outside toilets and a tin bath hanging on the wall. My mum used to talk about life between the wars when a lot of kids had no shoes to their feet. Povert was rife in those days, and it wasn't because they couldn't afford the latest i phone.
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Sorry. For willies please read willies. My face has gone red.
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I have no issue with people who can't spell. There maybe one or two different reasons such as dyslexia. I remember a supervisor I had on the railway who was of Jamaican origin. He was a great bloke but could not spell. One day someone stole his willies from the top of his locker and so he left a huge note for all to read. It was as follows:-
TO THE PERSON WHO STOLE MY WALLENTONS. I HOPE HE GET FOOT ROT LIKE WOT I GOT.
We all had hysterics and like the nice man he was, he saw the funny side.
I have problems with the way people speak. Adults who talk about their bruvva, Those who say they were in hospickal. It just makes me cringe.
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I remember that Fair very well. I used to spend time on the Rifle Range. When they built the houses, the building firm, Fleet by name, went bankrupt half way through the contract and was taken over by Searsons who my Dad was working for at the time. He didn't transfer to that site though.
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I'm not talking about modern times. I don't think the bells were always silenced at night.
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Typical!
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I have the same problem, but trouble is, I never have time to sit down and think it through.
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My banger is a 51 plate Ford Focus 1800 Ghia. It was owned by a garage business before I had it. With heated windscreen etc it must have been top of the range in its day. I only paid 450 quid for it but I need to spend some serious money on it. Saying that it cruises at a steady 70 up the motorway with no problem.
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I absolutely adore classic cars also any old form of transport. I would love to own something like a Morris Minor but funds won't allow. Beside, I already have an old banger.
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Another part of my past gone.
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Unfortunately my mum died before she got her medal. They didn't award them posthumously.
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I heard that when the Australian cricket team stayed there they had the bells on the council house clock silenced. I don't know if this is true.
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Those remnants were the pound between locks 15 and 16. Old Coach Road humped back bridge looked down on it and it was where, in the 50s, many angling competitions were held. I remember the water bailiff keeping an eye on things. Teenagers used to dive in off the bridge.
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I think the first film I saw was called Cinerama Holiday. It started with a small part of the curved screen showing a black and white view tantalizingly through gaps in the clouds looking at the alps below. Then as we approached a huge gap in the clouds it suddenly changed to the large screen and colour as we could all see down into the Alps. The sensation was such that everyone leaned forward in their seats.
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When I was quite young my parents bought me a Triang oo gauge electric train set. My Dad, being a joiner by trade, proceeded to build a rather complicated layout. It ended up with my mum telling him to let me play with my own train set. I had many happy hours building up a nice layout.
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Welcome Johnno and have fun.
Buses in Nottingham
in Pete's Nottingham Transport Forum
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When the new rear engine buses came out (Atlanteans and Fleetlines) all those years ago, we were all excited to ride on them. Wish the old ones could return.