DavidA

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  1. Now that we have shown how much publicity and disruption can be caused by a drone, this could well happen again. Every idiot will be at it, and terrorists will be rubbing their hands together in excitement. We seems to be totally pathetic, and unable to do anything in this country.
  2. I'm later, 1964 to 1971. The little girls (3 of them) lived in a big white house facing onto Breck Hill. They may have been called Wheelhouse. It did have a fairly steep drive... and the garden was at the front, a lawn with bushes screening them from Breck Hill. It's funny how much you can remember when you actually think about it! Going up Breck Hill, there was scrub land on the left and on the right clay pits which I played in several years after we'd moved to Mapperley. The scrub land is all houses now, and the clay pits are playing fields.
  3. I was only 6 or 7 when we left there, but there was a Bagley family over the road. The little boy always seemed to be plotting against his sister, digging pits so she'd fall in, etc. On our side of the road there was another little boy called Tuck. I was jealous of him as he had an astronaut costume. I would sometimes ride on the milkman's knee in his milkfloat. He went round the block and he would drop me at the top of Grey's Road, and I'd run home down the 'hill'. It seemed steep then, but you hardly notice it now as an adult. There was (I think) some tennis courts on the other s
  4. I lived on Greys Road when I was very young. We moved in 1971. I remember the land separating Fairview Road and Breck Hill as a wood - we called in 'Magpie Wood'. It was fenced off and I never got in. Then it was all cleared and they started building the new houses.
  5. That is a fascinating photograph. I can see St Andrew's church at the top, and that must be the Mason's hall to it's left.
  6. For decades Corbyn was a backbencher. He had no influence and his idiotic views didn't really matter. Now there is a very real chance he could be PM. God help us if that happens.
  7. Thanks. I'll have a look at where the house was next time I'm around there.
  8. There are great photographs here. Thanks all.
  9. The real enemy is not the individual immigrant, it is those Britons who allow and encourage the disastrous situation we're getting our nation into. I suppose I'd better stop now before I get a telling off...
  10. The liberal establishment and their cronies hate Britain and the native British. Unfortunately we have no leaders able to speak for us. If someone ever arise, then the liberal establishment will tremble.
  11. Yes, there can no second referendum. It would solve nothing.
  12. Should the 'remainers' get their way and win a second referendum, there would immediately be calls for a third one.
  13. That is a great photograph.
  14. We're not in the North. We're not in the South. We're in the Midlands.
  15. From the obituaries, he certainly seems to have enjoyed himself!
  16. It may not even take that long the way things are going.
  17. We had one in our back garden on Hazel Grove, Mapperley. It was full of rubble in my time (70's & 80's) and inaccessible. It was all below surface, and had brick steps down, a flat concrete top, with a slightly raised section/lid which you could just about slide off. I think you'd have been able to stand up under the lid section.
  18. Aha. It must have been where a housing association complex is now... High Cross Leys I think it is called. Thanks all!
  19. Thanks. I was 11 in 1976 but don't remember this at all.
  20. My grandfather, aged 19, was in the RFC/RAF 100 years ago, flying missions against the German offensive. He was wounded in April but survived.
  21. This is really great news. I will order a copy now.
  22. I travel to Edinburgh regularly. The city has terrible traffic problems. My bus journey there is an absolute hellish nightmare! They need to do something there, but no one seems to be able to agree on what...