TheTramp

More mystery and conspiracy, not really the word to use, more than twenty years ago a friend of mine was a regular ( and crazy ) winter visitor to northern Scotland, one evening he came across a man with a Nottingham accent working in a pub, lots of conversation and eventually the Pretty Windows murder came up, the barman clammed up and found something else really important to do, never got into conversation with my friend again. It's just like ghost stories really aint it?

Margie H @ 22. what a brill idea, and brave. I'll try some of that, but still buy a lucky dip!

The first time I saw the Black Boy it was obvious that it was a hotel, there were lots of young women chamber maids sitting on the very topmost window sills laughing and waving to the people down in the street. Looked like a lot of merry sparrows. And interestingly it had for a long time a woman as manager.

I bought a suit to get married in from Swanns in LE, cost £10, cheapest they had, Mr Swann proved what a gent he was, gave me a silk handkerchief to finish the top pocket. Come on Nottys, lets get style back in fashion. Be Italian!

I've kept this secret for years, never told anyone, just my idea. What do you need? Really need? Just enough money to buy food. Just one beautiful thing to possess. Just one person you love. I've got the lot. The details are still my secret.

I nearly placed a post, spent 5 minutes writing it, then read what I wrote, can't use that kind of bad temper and aggravation on you nice people. I'll leave it at this, I will do my best in never being seen riding on one of these ugly, over engineered, unwelcome things. If the local folk of High Rd Beeston decide to block the tram road on opening day I will be there with them.

Peverilperil. If you have spent enough time on your bike and come out of the shed in the skin suit you might have to call rescue services to get your missus away from you!!

I wont read any more in this topic unless you all stop this 69 99 stuff , too risky and that thing about a nice cream, stop! So what if 6 were 9? well the Ch of Eckr would have no more problems, print 6 million pounds and you have 9 million pounds!

I do like wearing a suit but the last time I wore one in daylight in Nottm I was mistaken for a magistrate. Once went in Burtons and ordered a suit, no turnups, no pockets in the jacket, no lapels, no belt loops, got charged ten quid for extras

That last AD on post one, i just cant work out wether it was cheaper to be a man or a woman, and if you were an executive needing tests did you get a doctor to do the job? Perhaps a warning given the current NHS fashion for reform and outsourcing. And why did OAPs get a 50% discount? was it just a quickie? Scary. Isn't that image Brill? If they put you under the microscope you came out with a fashionable haircut and a blonde on your arm. What did the ladies get? Tell me girls.

Someone riding a bike so worn out that the pedal rubbers had gone and had to pedal on a spindle, I've had a few! But they didn't cost me much, I worked in a scrapyard.

I wanted, so wanted to be in front of the Pompidou Centre watching that clock running backwards, but common sense and lack of nerve stopped me, what a stupid idea, cant speak French and what chance of a bed to go to? And then got the worst chest cold ever, staggered at 11.45 to the Trent where you can see 5 miles of horizon behind Nottingham and watched a Zillion pounds worth of firecrackers go off in 10 minutes, staggered home at 12.15. So evaded death again and saw fireworks the Parisians may dream about. But I bet Caithness was better, dark up there like we never see in Notty.

Top Gear always had the makings of a good program. But why did the great Clarkson need a poor litle sod like Hammond to lean on? And what would the current story look like if the Irish lad had done what any sound Irish lad would do and slugged Mr Clarkson long ago? A bit of a reality lesson may have left us with a better presenter and more Top Gear.

I wonder if there is still a house in Clifton with a Reddifusion switchbox on the wall? And; A bench seat in the car, problem when you are driving but brillo when you are parked with a girl!!! and column gear change, even better, get that stick out of the way!!!!

I might kill for a hat like that. And purple trousers, Oh to wear those again.

Wonderful! How did anyone find their way across the town? but they did, on foot and by remembering the familiar things, churches, doorways, broken pave stones, we should do this now. Queen's Place? never heard of it, I will follow this line till I know where.

I'm glad I found this thread, eclipses are interesting and one which coincides with a solar blast may mean the end of the world as we know it, the colours and thunder in the sky will make our exit the one that all the other beings in the solar system will envy, I will watch the sun through very dark glasses as I want to see what comes next. Maybe a tram. Or an England cricket win. or the electric oven going dead since the countrywide solar panels will stop for ten minutes. Those of us that survive will have to get used to wearing short leather skirts and eating half cooked food wash

This Rhoddie plant in a pot is interesting, I never saw it done before, and is ericaceous neccesary? Rhoddies go mad on Uni Blvd and down in the Lynn valley Exmouth area the National Trust are driven mad by rampant Rhodedendrons. The flowers seduce everyone though, but the grant for Highfields will probly see the lot uprooted, will they be replaced thoughtfully?

Girls wearing a headscarf over their rollers down the market Satd morning. Sailors in uniform. Women in fur coats and big ats in Yeates's. Red marks on yer ands from the cane. Flat carts at Bobbers Mill scrap merchant waiting to weigh in. Wippet on a piece of string. Notice board outside a posh bungalow sez Strodex Corsetiere.

Scribbled on a piece of paper found in my anorak pocket; Benchmarks, in feet. Toll Bridge far side 78.9 Trent Bridge first bay 95 South corner Cattle Market Rd 89.5 Smithy Row North 122 The Talbot 130 Brewhouse Yard gate 87.6 Weekday Cross 130 St Mary's steps 149 Theatre Royal 164 St Andrews Mans Rd 258 at the Castle Gate 136 upper College St/Derby Rd 213 Gen Hosp gate (near wall postbox) 197 top of Park Steps 206 pumphouse 5 Ropewalk 262 Canning Circ police stn 256 Bluebell Hill 227 lost gatepost opp Castle Grove (probably equal to bottom of Park Steps) 14

Bubblewrap, it doesn't fit into a tour but a visit to The Moot Carlton Rd would puzzle any visitor, what a crackers place. Pity there aren't any strippers at that place on Shakespeare St corner anymore. Navigation Wilford St gets lively.

I'm going to take a chance here. I'm ready to duck. Why for Petes sake do all these people have phones that whistle at em like someone whistling up a Collie dog? Its a fashion that shouldn't be. Don't you understand? YOU ARE NOT A COLLIE!

TeeBee Placketts have gone from Stapleford, their drivers were from another planet, they drove so close together on the M1 that they seemed to be coupled like a railway train, if you overtook one you had to overtake the whole fleet! The dockworkers were the hardest worked people in Stabbo. I'm curious about a company called SPD speedy prompt delivery, used to deliver Heinz stuff to Tesco in the sixties, were they from Nottingham? very civil drivers.

No Don, don't deprive me of my ghost, I don't want to know it was just another foreman spooking me up. not after all the cred I got for not going in there in the dark again.

Hi all I really like those granite setts, how in heavens name could a person make a granite stone into a cube? There are really nicely laid setts in Addison St and a nice bit near Biocity behind railings so may be safe. Lots of setts came from Charnwood and can be had in different colours depending where exactly, the stone was thrown up by a volcano and as you move around the source the colour varies. I dont know what the council does with old setts but I'm certain they sell the nice old slabs to a reclaim place in Wiltshire, just watch for the Yorkshire slabs on Uni Blvd coming back when