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I understand how it must feel Compo. Natural sounds and particularly birdsong is taken for granted by most folk. I heard birds singing for the first time in my life, 20 years ago - thanks to the NHS I can now hear the dawn chorus. Hearing aids can only amplify or adjust what is already there. With me it was always the high frequencies that were totally absent. The range of loss gradually widened until complete deafness about 20 years ago. I had a cochlea implant and a new world opened up to me. The NHS have been fantastic. The implant processor eats expensive batteries, which I get free. Bein

Just returned from Sutherland and Wester Ross. Saw no monsters but caught a lot of wee wild troots.

We have changed from the Times to the 'I'. The 'I' gives a lot of 'proper' news for 40p. It also has a great puzzle page. Sport and the Financial sections are a bit more limited than the Times though.

Best of luck finding Ken Smith SamPanther. I vaguely remember a Ken Smith who was a cycling contemporary in the 50's. He would be about 80 now. #100 that street view brings back memories. Bentink Rd School was my first school and I lived almost opposite, near the bottom of Peveril St. I don't remember there being a cafe there in the 40's or 50's.

Had a look down there on Wednesday after the meet up. Spent many a Friday night there and in the Corner Pin.

An articulated robotic arm, terminating with a bollock clamp. This device to be sited in parking areas for the disabled, to grab the able bodied men who park there.

Sorry to hear that FLY2. Just noticed the date of the posting.

#2 Rob - the picture of the apprentices was taken 2 years after I was in the apprentice training shop. A lot of familiar faces there. Harold Watkin the manager, Ernie Frake the supervisor Mr Slater the admin clerk. Somewhere I have a similar picture taken 2 years earlier.

Once watched Angela Rippon pluck pigeons at a Game Fair. She was a fast plucker!

darkazana -Those links are very thought provoking and definately not for discussion on here!

For the past 3 days we have seen a hawk striding across the garden. It flew up into a tree this morning and I got the bino's onto it. I'm guessing that it is collecting nesting material.

Hello Bri. I live in Brittany 50%. There at the mo. Hope that you enjoy the site as much as I do.

Compo - As you know, I am visiting Sutherland and W Ross in late May. I was planning to spend a day on Loch an Furalach, east of Glen Cassley. I fished there many Summers in the 70's and 80's. It was wild and remote and the only trace of humanity was the deer fence. I was saddened to see on Google Earth, that there are now pylons almost up to the Loch but going nowhere? Will there be wind farms up there when I visit in wonder? Likewise, a couple of years ago travelling east from Bundoran, Co Antrim, among some of the best scenery in the British Isles, I was greeted by a plague of wind gener

The small structures In front of the transverse bay were, from left to right were Central stores and works offices. The gap between became the apprentice training shop. Bike sheds were on the far right. My first job at 15 was office lad in Central stores. I made the fire in Mr Kent's office before his arrival at 9 (the rest of us clocked on by 8.05). The Mr Rabin was office manager.

Cliff-ton #2 and #20 what date was that map? I looked at it again and the ROF site must have been expanded a bit. The South shop looks too small. The office block (lower r/h) and canteen are shown. From North shop we would take a short cut through South shop to the canteen. A railway line ran through the North shop from the Lenton spur and forge, right up to the main entrance on Kings Meadows Rd. I remember tanks being unloaded from rail wagons in North shop.

Pie and pint (on the 6th).

I never had school books to take home when at Berridge 48/53. Everything was left at school. No homework and no O levels to study for. At 14 it dawned on me that I was capable of more than the Sec/Mod education was providing for me. I must have had a bit of initiative because I went to Peoples College that Autumn and signed on to study at night school. I had to say that I was 15 y/o to be accepted. This backfired a bit when I was taken on by the ROF that Christmas at 15, as a prospective apprentice. Us wannabee apprentices were sent off to Peoples College to register for the courses that I had

Hi Mortton40 and welcome. Oztalgian - There must have been quite an exodus from Nottingham in 75/76 on the £10 ticket. 5 couples we knew (all cyclists) went. We were going to go but my application was turned down at the 11th hour due to medical probs. We visited our £10 pom friends a few years ago and they had all done very well for themselves. Perth, Adelaide and Canbera.

Ah! Aerial Pressings and Pressac! They were customers of mine when I was a tech rep for a tool steel company in the 60's. My cycling mate - John Rushton was an apprentice toolmaker, then a draughtsman at Pressac. He emigrated to Oz late 60's. Enjoyed reading your posts Mrshifta - keep em coming.

Maybe the gun factory (ROF) on opposite side of the river?

Adam and Eve - oower - is that religious?

Ah., but Coke is almost as good as WD40 for rust removal.

WD40 - tastes bleddy awful.

Still on a sporting/games theme - Elston and Hopkins...Nottingham snooker tables.

Gunn and Moore