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mick2me @ #24
Like your new avatar. Too true Betteroffaghtonit!
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However, I suggest a possible workaround. When you post your message and it has turned into a solid paragraph, immediately hit "Edit" at the bottom of the reply panel and go back into the text and insert paragraph spaces. See if they stick.
Thanks for the input Cliff, I have tried that as per my third paragraph @ # 30, but unfortunately, no joy.
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Thank you Stu:
Yes, have done that but also composed the piece direct into the reply panel. Both methods still suffer the same problem.
When I first experienced it, I wondered if it may be because I typed to the full possible line width in the reply space. So I
tried only using about two thirds of the available width. For a couple of posts, that appeared okay, but the next I tried,
it reverted to the problem again.
On a few previous `offending` posts, I`v used the re-edit facility, corrected everything throughout a post, posted it yet again,
and still it gets reorganised. It happens on the final `Post` operation.
Note that after the botched # 27, the much shorter post, # 28 appears as I intended.
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I know this is the wrong thread but I don`t give a toss.
I have a technical problem with posts, I`ve asked for help before but so far cannot correct the problem.
I compose a post, it looks fine. I paste it into `reply` panel, it then appears, having been totally changed
into one solid block of text. (See #27 above.) This not only makes the writer appear an ignorant prat,
but far more important than that, it is now difficult for readers to use.
It will be a problem with my system at my end, or one with the Nottstalgia site.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Nice one Cliff. Thank you for the use of.
1. `Bendigo`s Ring`/Glade hill.
2. Edward`s Lane road over rail bridge. (Daylight visible under it)
3. `Poplars`, a residence during my time but later an infant`s nursery.
4. `The Limes` @ Arnold Rd./Ted`s Ln. junction. The one with the high, Bulwell stone retaining wall and the two vicious chows always barking down at whoever walked around that corner. Today, diagonally opposite, is the Police Station, on the site of a small unofficial tip. Between the tip and the Oxclose pub was a typical three-shop Co-op unit.
5. Scott`s farm, just dairy as far as I know. Used to leave metal milk churns on the pavement @ the Arnold Rd. corner for collection in the mornings.
6. ??? farm, certainly had pigs and probably dairy.
7. ?. Wood, (`Woodies`) Market Gardener. House within the orchard. Various crops including fabulous stawberries, what was left of them anyway, after Bestwood Ben had done nickin `em.
8. Site of future Oxclose Hotel.
9. Yet to be developed site of my primary school, later renamed as `Burford.`
10. Magnificent Ash tree, (teacher sed.) in corner of school grounds. Now gone according to G. Earth Street View.
11. Sherbrooke Terrace, junction of Sherbrooke Rd. and yet to be completed Longmead Drv.
12. Just off map, to its left, site of `Daybrook Vale Farm` not known if still existing at date of this photo. Its access track runs from top of fig.2 to Ed`s Ln.
13. Elm tree, (individual tree at left end of hedgerow) just after the farms etc., were vacated and as the site was being prepared for development, I cut this tree down with a handsaw. Very satisfying for a little kid!
14. Rail over farm access bridge.
15. (Straying onto Bestwood Ben`s territory here!) `Sunrise Hill.` Some images on PTP and other sites appear to confuse this location with Bendigo`s Ring, some even labelling images Sunrise Hill/Bendigo`s Ring as though they are one and the same location. Sunrise Hill, for fairly obvious reasons, was the site of the gun emplacement in WW2.
`X` In my days, there will have been a spring in the vicinity of `X`. I collected good quality watercress from it and took it home. The stream ran down at the side of a hedge to join Oxclose Ln. then followed the dotted line towards the Oxclose pub site. Close to the pub region it will have been culverted as part of the Edward`s Ln. Est., development, to run under Archdale rd., across the field, under the railway arch, passing closely by the Daybrook Vale farm when it existed, the culvert passing under the second field to join the Day Brook in the recreation ground. I believe my younger brother, and others, have explored the whole length of the culvert.
Arrowed is my childhood home on Alderton Road.
Interesting that some feel that the quoted date of photo, (1936 I.I.R.C.) is suspect. Although I have no definite proof, I have anecdotal evidence that the date may well be correct.
I was born 1940. One of my childhood friends, Fred Carcass, lived opposite me and I know him to be about four years older than myself. He was accredited by all of the neighbours that I knew of, as being the first baby born on the Ted`s Ln. Est., which would fit the photo`s date.
Incidentally, anyone know of any Fred or John Carcass, born approx. 1936 and 1938 resp.? The had two sisters as well, Doris and Mary. I`ve never found any trace on Google or elsewhere. Fred and John initially worked at a small printers, early `fifties, on Hucknall Rd., opp. Leonard Ave. Both keen racing cyclists.
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Yet again..... I`m peeved.
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I`ve been having problems editing text in posts. The final post always condenses the text into one continous block of text, without
paragraphs etc., which makes it difficult for others to read, and in certain areas, distorts the meaning intended.
I click `edit` and re-compose the piece. Then click `save changes` or `submit.` The intended post then shows with all the paragraphs ignored
and condensed again. I go back, re-compose yet again, and again it `unedits` the work I`ve just done. Annoying.
I`ve just tried using `Use Full Editor` for the first time, and this appears to work so far. I have yet to try it on a
proper post with more text involved.
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Ben, (Mr Definitive Bestwood!) Arnold Road was concrete surfaced you`ll recall.
Between each bed or pouring, there were expansion gaps, filled with pitch. In the hot years, the concrete expanded, squeezing the soft pitch upwards
We used to pull chunks out and chew it for hours. We`re still here though.....Did yo Bestwood lot try any?
The parallel section of Arnold Rd., opposite the shops,where the houses were built later - did you sledge it? Start right at the top, on the level, not far from the original terminus for the no. 6, really long run, steep, a bit of a winding curve and then about halfway up the next gradient towards the site of the future Green Barrel.
Fantastic but a hell of a walk back for the next go. All of us had worn out toes on our shoes and boots from steering. Amazing there were not more accidents,
it was a popular spot and got a bit crowded.
Did you ever use Holehouse`s hardware shop on that parade? Nigh on next door to the Marsden`s/Farrand`s where you did a stint later in life. What a geezer he was.
As a kid I often bought bulbs and batteries there for my bike. He chain smoked but I never saw him with a whole fag, always the tiniest of nubs. To his credit, he
always tested a bulb or battery before selling it to you, but the rigmarole was unbelievable. It would have been so simple to have a short length or two of wire and perhaps a bulbholder. Oh, no. He had his trusty scissors. So, he`d hold the U2 battery in one hand, with one point of his scissors touching the
brass cap. The other hand held the other blade of the scissors and at the same time held the side contact of the bulb against the other point, and the
centre contact of the bulb up underneaththe U2.... Clever stuff!
At the same time, because his head was angled downwards to see what he was doing, the tiny nub was drifting smoke all around his boat race, causing a constant, small, choky type cough. All of this was every time someone wanted a bulb or battery. I said he was a character!
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Excellent Cliff, that all looks quite logical.
Many thanks.
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Cliff, may I pick your brain yet again? I`ve tried using `search` but could not get a solution.
What`s the procedure to get multiple images into one post from Photobucket? I don`t like
taking up your time, direct me to an existing answer, by all means.
Thank you.
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Photo`s? It`s so long ago we didn`t even have cameras!
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Dat #4: What was it you said two years ago that`s upset them?
In your visits of recent years, were you aware of an ex teacher, Mrs Kwiatkowski, (formerly Cawthorne or Corthorn?)
I know she taught there for quite some time. She is an ex neighbour of ours and is now a very good friend.
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Ian, ahv wokked it aht yoth - the latest reg. plate visible is `W` so it`s 1980 at the earliest.
B.T. was privatised early 1984, that enabled me to buy the SLR. With the novelty and excitement,
it didn`t take long for me to decide on a trip around the City at night, using available light.
So, it has to be around late `84, 1985 at latest.
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Hi Pev
If you fish the Embankment, you`ll have to carry your gear, and have no cover for toilet use.
It`s all free ,yes.
If you want to try it, do it in comfort. On the Google shot below, is Clifton Bridge. You`ll
know it well and how to get there. Off the traffic island under the bridge, is Lenton Lane,
the dotted yellow line gets you under the bridge. I`ve red arrowed a gate which is normally
open in daylight, it`s right alongside the Sat Bains Restaurant. The Eastern section of
the pink line, is Notts Fed. water, daytickets are quite reasonable. The Western section of
pink line is the same club and continues off map to the left, right up to the `Prince Edward
Farm` (now Nottm. Uni. property.)
The turquoise section is a smaller club, `Clifton Bridge Angling` from one peg, (I think)
below the bridge to join the Fed. water lower down.
The benefits, for about £3/£4/£5 whatever, are, parking within a few feet at most, of your peg,
which is invaluable at our age. Take any amount of spare clothing, tackle etc., with no
humping. If you don`t need it, leave it in the car - if you do, it`s there at your elbow.
Plenty of natural cover for toilet use. (Fish the Embankment and you`ll take half your coffee
back home, thinking, "I`d love another drink, but I`d better not."
The pegs and landscape in general are first class at both clubs. In summer, it`s like a bit of
quality parkland there.
If you enjoy walking, humping tons of stuff and have a bladder like a spacehopper, then save a
couple of quid. Most clubs gave up. The fishing deteriorated, the City Council, as the
landowner, thought they could bang the rents up and clubs just walked away.
I`m just annoyed, again, that having composed the piece with sentences, paragraphs etc., which
makes it easier to read, I click 1Post1 and it`s all been banged into one block of continous text.
I`ve tried `Edit`, it all appears as I intended, I click `post` again, a solid block again.
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I would have guessed a bit earlier Ian, although I`ve nothing really to go on. It was from my old, film type SLR, so no
EXIF data available. Consoled? We`ll believe ya!
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This is what I intended.
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Pev # 29: The Embankment is all still free fishing. May not not be as easy to park though, as you remember it.
Try it, I`d be interested to hear how you get on. Most local club waters on the river are now abandoned. Take
your pick!
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He did indeed Katy, me old pal me old beauty!
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Welcome to Nottstalgia, Kevin.
I`m a bit puzzled regarding the dates. I went to this school from 1947 until 1951, aged 7-11 years, and as far
as I know this was the normal routine. If your mum was born 1937, I wouldn`t expect her to have still been there
in 1949. Possibly the school also had a primary department, which I wasn`t aware of.
I don`t see any familiar faces on your photo, but I may have been a pupil in another class at the same time.
We tend not to have much truck with others who are three or four years older or younger at that age, it`s half our
lifetime`s difference at that age!
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Thank you yet again, Cliff. Most helpful.
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Sorry - mistake.
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Anyone else recall the `Utility` buses, mid-forties into fifties?
No upholstery at all, just wooden slats to sit on and as backrests - highly uncomfortable!
Here`s the Utiity symbol, on all clothing and footwear at the time:
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Those tickets at #1 still look so familiar Compo. I remember the longer shape before those as well,
mid-forties onwards. We used to plunge our hands into the used ticket slot on the platform to get
handfuls to play with.
Our usual bus was an 18, but I once caught a 6 from its terminus on Arnold Rd., to go a short
distance to my grandma`s on Gainsford Cresc. I was about nine. At the top of the curve on
Gainsford, the engine backfired with an enormous bang. The driver stopped the engine, got out,
came speaking to the conductor, looking quite shaken. He said he`d try it again, I got off,
saying "I`m not going on it again, I want my money back." I think the fare was an `ap`ny.`
The conductor said he couldn`t give it me back as he`d issued the ticket. I said I`d walk the rest.
I could still instantly pick out his face from photos even today.
What a Barton`s bus from a nine year old!
What happend in your life time
in 90's Nottingham
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Re: the original topic -
Someone invented the transistor, I should know who but I don`t. No moving parts,
just three connections, get a million in the volume of a paracetamol. Most items
already mentioned by others on this thread depend on transistors. Life changing for
every one of us and life saving for many.
Fynger has a point. If a future researcher is faced with a mountain of waffle, with
say 4% useful information diffused among it, he`ll go elsewhere. I note that one
contributor`s post count went up by 3,000 in just a few weeks.