steven_wynn_uk

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  1. On 5/13/2021 at 10:56 PM, Brew said:

    I have a couple of guns and shoot, only clays though. Once shot a rabbit and fifty years later still feel guilty.

    Style Hollow was my ground if choice years ago and was a member for quite some time. Now just go to different grounds as the fancy takes me. One that's on my list when I get back into it is Lowes Lanes, never been, the same as Orston quite fancy a couple of rounds there. Covid of course means it's been over a year since the guns came out their slips.

    Yup, not been there. Trying to decide  between cocketts farm and notts district. choices choces

  2. once the transponder is off - the only things that can spot a plane is primary radar , WW2 era, which looks for metal things in the sky. It cannot identify such things. Very little of the earth's surface, including overland, is covered by this.

  3. I think for what you get, the fares are decent.If they were going up and you didn't see investment, then I'd moan. Sure some costs are rising, and the fuel VAT refund allowance is being hacked - but it is there to make a profit, or not to be subsidised at any rate. There are always exceptions, naturally, but I find the buses clean, a good frequency, and relatively piss free.

  4. Ok, I confess. I'm a Londoner, and my Notts knowledge extends to about 8 years.

    So, for that reason (i) I dont know the surrounding area too well, and (ii) I couldn't drive if my life depended on it so rely on public transport (or possibly a well-bribed other half).

    Recently done a massive kit upgrade and keen to get out and about. Unfortunately my job means I am only home at weekends for the near-term.

    So, could any reccomend 'dead certs' for landscapes that could be got at with public transport? I'm initially thinking just head out to the Peaks, but hey, thats a big place when you've only got an afternoon?

  5. yeah, its interesting stuff. I've seen quite a lot of 'about 18xx' when it comes to some of the birth dates on the older census....

    Yup @DaveW. I can see the age gap is a bit too much for those two to get married, by any standards. So I'm left chasing the mysterious Dorothy, potentially of 6 Shakespeare St. I would end the quest at the stage, as the Soar's have now moved out of the house and I should start on the next bunch, BUT, they still own it for a while, as I've seen adverts of Ben jnr renting out flats in it, so they are still caught up in the timeline. Hopefully the chaps down the archive can fill me in via a few electoral roles...

  6. dam, I'd looked at picture the past, but I could see there were c16 schools listed the area along radford road at one point, trying to pull them apart was nigh impossible. However, maybe a process of eliminaton could be employed - I guess there couldn't be too many female head mistresses at that time? Have set the other half to work on that.

    In other happy news, the story of the original inhabitants are now complete, they are all buried in one plot around the corner, and even tracked some old news clippings - it would seem Mr Soar was quite a cad.....

  7. I've no kids on that particular path of descendants.It gets a bit messy. Found a potential Dorothy Frances Soar who was born in Notts and died in Chichester. Then I started down an alternative route where an Anne Marie Smith married a Ben Soar in 1902, with a kid along in 1904 - Lilian Mary Soar. It looks like she was farmed out to her uncle in Codnor as per the 1911 census.

    However, I stopped pursuing the Anne Marie theory due to the primary evidence of this 'widow' of his at 6 Shakespeare St.

    Whilst browsing the papers archive, I also came across a little gem about Sandon St itself. A bit of banter further up decided Sandon st was always so, but this 1880 auction notice throws it back out...

    sandon%20is%20newcastle.jpg

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/t7eaibuaugu0akb/sandon%20is%20newcastle.jpg

  8. the mystery continues. It appears their daughter, DoraM died a Spinster in 1910. The sons future is harder to trace. I've got a death certificate tying in with a probate that has him down Shaftesbury Ave, Notts with a widow 'Dorotht Frances Soar', but cannot find a marraige record, but likely have a son Ben who married Bertha (you couldn't make it up!), but the lack of marraige record riles me.

    The other possible path is he married someone called Anne Marie Smith in 1902 in Basford, having a daughter Lilian born Codnor 1904.

    @Michael Booth, do you think either of these routes are your ancestors?

    That New Basford Council school, I think is one that was on Radford Rd, anyone know what happened to it?

  9. Theres a John H Hickling in the 1911 census, born 1901 in Radford, and was as schoolboy living at 33 Forest St Hyson Green. Quite a squeeze - there were 8 of them at that address. Still, not much different from some of Radford's current HMOs '-)

    Adults George & Fanny, children John Henry, George ,Frank x2, William and Nelly.