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This photo is after my time there. I only remember there being one set of steps up to the science lab and there was no lean-to at the end.

Bekay - An Elephant bike is a redundant GPO bike that has been refurbished by a charity that sends bikes to Malowi. They are painted sky blue, have a front and rear carrier, 3 speed hub gears and hub brakes. Absolutely bomb proof but heavy. I'll be using it on Sunday for the local fishing match on the canal. No Phil - just seconds to slip the lycra on - very time consuming posing in front of the full length mirror though

I used the Elephant Bike to ride up to the club meeting last night. Offered some members a lift home in the front basket but no takers... Cycle clips not needed with chain guard. Straw hat quite safe at my pedestrian speed I get the impression that no one on here likes the more serious cyclist - I've a good mind to don my trapeze artist gear and to visit the Nottingham lanes on my Look carbon road bike just to annoy you all At least the lycra fits - not bad for an octogenarian...

I see that you made a decent saddle and pedals for the 'Penny' Plantfit Must take pics of the remnants of my bike collection (and learn how to post them). Dolan TT bike, Look road bike, Trek hybrid and an Elephant bike.

We have a well in the front courtyard and the water is only 9 or ten feet below ground. I may drop a pump into it next week. There is another well in the back garden but its filled in. It's a more modern one built of red brick as opposed to sandstone. Due to the high water table I'm tempted resurrect it. I've been digging around this well for a couple of weeks while restructuring that area (another 2 skips full of soil etc.) and found yet another midden. Old whisky, ink and medicine bottles, small pots and the usual pigs teeth and rotten leather boots. It's more recent than the other mi

C1964 I called on Brough Eng in my position as a special steel rep. They were not building motor bikes and just doing general engineering and a bit run down. My reports said 'no potential'.

Wow CT! - what a great collection of pictures of Alfreton Rd. Only seen a few before. Must go through them all again...

A bit before your time - 1947/50. Boys on the lower half of the school and girls on the upper part. BK - Windley was on Forest Rd about a 100 yards up from Alfreton Rd.

It was in the Orion that I had my first feeling for a girl We were about 11 and a regular ex Windley gang used to go to the Orion on Saturday afternoons and we tended to sit in the same wooden seats upstairs. The girls sat in the row in front of us lads.Her name was Diane and she had been head girl. I gave her a piece of my precious chewing gum and I can still see her smile - I dreamed about us conquering the world for months after that....

Enjoyed watching it. A few 'iffy' moments on both sides but the result was right. A good indicator that they can go all the way.

The Penny farthing?

Hmm.. £399 sounds ok. I'm looking at electrifying my fishing bike for about the same price.

E scooters are here to stay, so we will just have to get used to it. They are a way to reduce car use and congestion and should be embraced as such. They do present new dangers which legislation and 'culture change' will address eventually, albeit with 'hues and cries' and many injuries and deaths. As a lifelong cyclist I could easily say "why not use bikes"? Well, we have had over a century for that to be decided. Most humans will take the easy route, hence the car. Nipping around town in a car could be seen as a bloody selfish activity - expensive, polluting and taking up

Apparently the Trent is the river of 30 streams,abbey's and species of fish. Hence Trent from the French Trente (30).

Got up early today and covered the clear roofed loggia with a tarpaulin before it got hot. Not pretty but works a treat.

Found this interesting old topic. Something that has been puzzling me is why the Trent, below it's confluence with the Tame is still called the Trent, when in fact the Tame at that point has a greater flow? have we been fooled for centuries? Should it really be Tame Bridge and Tame Embankment?

There were a few monkeys dressed as humans last time I was there

Coal miner going home on bus still wearing helmet and black with coal dust.

According to the news/press the big issue that candidates are targeting is tax cuts or otherwise. Someone has to be wrong on the principles of how taxation, corporate or personal, achieve their clams? For me the security of the UK is a more important issue.

Lycra again - when in my 60's I crashed in a race near Epperstone. Hit the deck hard, fracturing skulI and collar bone. I was wearing a one piece skin suit and when in hospital the nurses had to cut it off me. Still had a six pack then though

I go to Birmingham tomorrow to be fitted with a new device. I will have a range of 60 miles - so don't go talking behind my back

Last wore my lycra on my 83rd birthday, as always on my birthday. Can't wait till I'm 84 to wear my birthday suit. Fits perfectly. Trouble is - the bumps are all in the wrong places.

Interesting day today. I was invited to a meeting at Isaac Walton's cottage. An author was gathering info for a book that she is writing about the River Trent and I was introduced as 'the old man of the Trent'. Wonderful conversation ensued. Gathered the fourth crop of runner and French beans today and been picking four courgettes a day for the last fortnight. Looking for recipes for courgettes.... Plenty of big tomatoes but no sign of ripening yet.

I had a smoking jacket with satin collar and pocket trim. My teenage daughter nicked it to go along with her pork pie shoes when Northern Soul was the rage.

Wore my Summer weight suit last week avec turn-ups. Perfect along with the genuine Panama.