swe62

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  1. owned by the park estate company he used to pull the maintenance cart round ,when they fixed the roads cleaned up the leaves ,I think the maintenance man was called Fred
  2. ...plus limo and police escort to court
  3. meks yer tabs laff when it were parky
  4. thers a good map on their website detailing some of the nobs who lived there ,
  5. Has anyone any memories of the Park Estate my dad. converted no 5Cavendish Cresent South into flats it was formerly the headquarters of the British Soviet Friendship Society, It was almost derelict when he started the job it had a coach house on Lenton Road,large gardens a huge kitchen with wine cellar and many rooms it was three stories high and the brickwork had a three inch cavity which was very unusual for such an old proprerty ,I wondered if any Nottstalgia members knows any former history.
  6. Russels had a shop in Netherfield as well my aunt worked there for years, Mr Russell used to drink in the Brooklyn club on main road Gedling near the end of westdale lane
  7. a french mate of mine asked once asked me what flavour it was ? err brown flavour!
  8. can you still get Beetop sauce it used to have a picture of a beehive on the label?
  9. christ Don your letchs are long lasting!
  10. I would have said to a smaller extent Cliff
  11. we dont really want bullets flying everywhere like some countries but times change ,perhaps a limited number of highly trained mobile armed police in every town . The problem is in most smaller towns there is no police presence anyway!
  12. tbi #4 some of the arches have been reused ,so the others can,t have been that much too low
  13. ok lets assume it was not worth repair where did the millions of blue bricks worth about 40pence each second hand go to ,and who had the money ,nobody would believe they went to landfill
  14. how do you migrate a profile pic from face book to Nottstalgia ? must go and check my blood pressure grr
  15. they are still better looking though
  16. Why did NET demolish the brick built bridge and replace it with the cheap nasty new.one ?
  17. the Shippo,s and Nottingham Legend from the Star at Beeston is spot on with no nasty after effects
  18. typical short sighted planning the best rail infrastucture in the world thrown away,
  19. a fantastic railway opportunity thrown away ,it could have made a high speed link to London
  20. Notts has still got the best looking girls in the UK crap or not!