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Further memories of those great days. Travel to other places in the late 1940s / early 1950s wasn't so easy - lack of money had something to do with it. As a consequence, the engines we spotted were very often the same ones, based at Nottingham, Colwick or Annesley. A trip out was really a wonderful experience. By Gash's bus to Newark or from Victoria Station to Grantham, the sense of adventure was electric. Where else was I going to see engines with blinkers, or streamlined Gresleys travelling at speeds well above engines that passed through Basford/Bulwell/Cinder Hill. Another red letter

#105 katyjay. The Westminster chimes in our 'hallway' were made by dad. I think he got the plans out of Practical Mechanics magazine. I think I have the brass-tube chimes in my garage. Methinks that he made a set earlier, and gave them away.

Hope this works - my first YouTube insert. Those of you who like to hear an acoustic guitar played in a foot-tapping manner will like this. It is called Guitar Shuffle, played by Big Bill Broonzy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Q0qqNwee0&list=RDI1Q0qqNwee0

Big head me got in less than one minute. Believe it or not, a Frenchman once wrote a novel in French without once using the letter E. Not to be outdone, and Englishman translated it into English, again without using the letter E.

Tried to post a music track - didn't work!

Bubblewrap. What's our anus got to do with it? Are you talking about black holes?

Here's another one - this time from my dad. Remember it katyjay? Keiler's jam, Keiler's jam, How we all love Keiler's jam, There's plum, pineapple and apricot, All put in a two-pound pot. When I'm asleep I dream that I am, Having the fits, having the shits, Through eating Keiler's jam.

I have an mp3 recording on my PC that I want to post on to a thread. It is not a YouTube recording. How can this be done? Photobucket does not seem to accept mp3 recordings.

#9 Compo. Find out who gave the puzzle to the charity shop, go round to their house and empty the hoover dust bag.

In the eighties we were staying with our friend in Culver City, Los Angeles - he was at work this evening - when there was a knock on the door. On opening it there were two kids - with their parents standing back. 'Trick or Treat' they timidly cried. This was all new to us and we were unprepared. I hurriedly searched for a treat and finished up handing over my roll of Polo mints.

Remember this one Carnie and katyjay? Pounds, shillings and pence, I saw a dirty wench, Picking her nose and eating the crows, Pounds, shillings and pence.

In front of a house just down from St Andrew's church (Forest Road and Mansfield Road) there is an entrance, clearly visible from the road, to underground caves. Same system or a different one?

I'm with you, Carnie; same thing happened to me on September 14th. The Settings boxes will not accept ticks. However, you can see who has ticked the Likes tab by clicking on to your Avatar photo and then clicking on Likes in the list.

I remember the ponds in the Market Square, with their mesh grilles - the No.22 bus terminus was there in those days. There was a large water tank on Amesbury Circus, where they later built the children's play area. It was not uncommon just after the war to see E W S in large letters painted on walls, denoting an Emergency Water Supply. The Bar Lane wall of the Aspley Cinema was so adorned.

The true swearers are those who, like most swearers not only stick the word between other words in a sentence, but split the words themselves - example, Wolver ...ing hampton. Sorry Carni - no disrespect to your home town, just a handy multi-syllable name.

#74. Really Melissa! All those years you have been driving and only recently passed your test. Women drivers!!!!

#52. A 'see you next Tuesday' was the sheath for a sharpening-stone - to put an edge on a scythe.

Here's a rhyme we used to chant when we were kids - anyone remember it? Scab and matter pudding, green phlegm pie, All mixed up with a dead dog's eye, Wash it down quick with a bottle of sick, Scab and matter pudding, green phlegm pie.

The first Packard Merlins built - several hundred - had their con-rod big-end bolt tightened by an incorrect procedure. The engines were dismantled and corrected before they went into service. There was also a problem with the quality of the cylinder head castings, and the worse ones had to be replaced before the engines entered service. There was a problem with some engines whereby there were con-rod failures. This was as a result of polishing hiding score marks. This was corrected quickly. Once in service, apart from problems that affected other marks of Merlin, they did well. The improved

Nice sunset last night - or was it the night before!

Early sixties, if I were down town on Satdy, I would nip into the Queen Elizabeth on Bottle Lane. The Murgatroydes kept it, and their son and I had the same music taste - Hank Williams. I never was a town boozer, though, preferred the Cocked Hat, Collier's Arms, Horseshoe at Bulwell, Log Cabin, the Gate in Awsworth, TBI for the jazz.

#27 firbeck. I'm afraid you are wrong about the reliability of the Packard Merlin engine. In actual fact it was more reliable than the British-built Merlin. It is said that Gibson asked for the Lancaster III because of it having the Packard-built engines. There are a number of contemporary accounts of the Bomber Command maintenance statistics proving this, and Rolls-Royce being told that its engines were less reliable. Rolls-Royce engines improved as the war went on, but the Packard was always that little bit better. In fact it was the quality of the American engine that made it better than

I have a school photo of all the senior boys at William Crane in 1951 - 400 of them!. The problem is that if I put it on this thread the faces will be too small to recognise. Is there a way of increasing the on-screen image size?

#319. Trying my best to, Catfan, but with great difficulty. lol Thanks all for best wishes.

re #311. Been to the docs today for latest update on my prostate cancer. Latest blood check shows PSA number now down to 3.9 from 14 from 197, so hormone treatment seems to be working well. Cholesterol reading within acceptable limits too.