philmayfield

Hallelujah!

There was certainly a Great Clowes on Castle Boulevard where the 'evangelical' Church is now. I remember buying an electric concrete mixer from there many years ago. I think the church is called the Cornerstone, a happy clappy institution.

The block of flats are off Windmill Lane. Burrows Court, Sneinton.

It’s the old British Waterways dock on Trent Lane.

Your Bach’s better than your bite then.

Cavendish Woodhouse were part of an empire owned by Great Universal Stores, GUS, and run by Isaac Wolfson. They had a regional office in Nottingham on Talbot St. They were clients of my old accountancy firm

The one and only film I saw at The Scala was ‘Mon Oncle’, a virtually silent movie starring Jaques Tati, the French comedian. Very funny if you can find it anywhere.

Didn't the brown West Bridgford buses depart from South Parade?

The Eastern Europeans catch and eat those. Presumably they get permission from Her Majesty.

Has anyone tried a goose at Christmas - no not that sort of goose - the one you eat! We had a goose one year. It wasn't a great success and the smell of goose fat throughout the house took a week to dissipate.

Some people will always find a loophole. The legislation is poorly drafted.

Phallic symbol?

At £26 for 4 chains its not worth the hassle! I've not bought one for years so I thought they would be much more than that.

I use an electric chain saw sharpener and it always seems to restore them OK. I must agree though that there’s nothing like brand new chain.

Yes, it was on the corner of Milton St. and Parliament St., opposite Clumber St.

My first car was 1947 also. An MG TC two seater sports which I rebuilt and resprayed.

First Christmas card!

Well it’s true that electric cars don’t put out emissions per se. Those come from the power stations where a lot of the electricity still doesn’t come from renewable resources. The fact is that electric cars consume a massive amount of energy during the production process, far more than conventional internal combustion engines, so they are not environmentally friendly when all the facts are taken into account.

This is why I say that cleaner, conventionally fuelled cars under development will solve the emissions problem.

I think that will be an additional cost not accounted for.

An article in the Times today says that electric cars have to travel as far as 50,O00 miles to match the carbon footprint of a petrol model because of the massive amount of energy consumed during the production process. Making an electric car generates high levels of greenhouse gas emissions, mainly because of its battery pack and other environmentally expensive materials. The politicians who want to send us ‘electric’ seem to focus just on the tailpipe emissions which is just too simplistic. I think that cleaner, conventionally fuelled cars is the way to go.

The old synagogue on Shakespeare St.?

An uncle of mine worked at the Milton’s Head hotel before the war. I have a pair of rather nice etched glass decanters that came from there. Whether they were a leaving present or he purloined them I will never know! I think there are a few items of cutlery engraved MH kicking around somewhere as well.

Hip, hip, hurray!