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9 hours ago, benjamin1945 said:
All to be read to the tune of Copacabana by Barry Manilow..............Her name was Lola (joyce) she was a show girl
He was escorted to to his chair, he saw Lola dancing there
And when she finished he called her Rover
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2 hours ago, radfordred said:
I've never understood that walking around Waitrose with a FREE coffee malarky, Some even take their own drinking vessels! What's all that about?
I don't understand that either but it's not compulsory to walk around with it. We do the shop grab a FREE coffee and paper then sit and relax and enjoy it in the cafe.
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We normally use Waitrose for the Friday big shop but tried Morrisons last week, the cost difference was less than a fiver cheaper than our average and I didn't get a free paper and coffee.
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22 hours ago, FLY2 said:
Den, I thought the ice cream vans ran on paraffin whilst doing business. On Mr Softee's, they were started on petrol, then after about five minutes, we'd switch over to the other fuel, which I'm certain was paraffin. Then at night, before shutting down, I'd switch back to petrol for five minutes in order to fill the system, else it wouldn't start next morning.
I might be mistaken, as it was over 50 years ago !
Fly, Mr. Softee donkey engines were low compression Ford engines which were started on petrol then switched to TVO and closed on petrol. Mr. Whippy donkey engines were single or twin cylinder American Onan engines running again on TVO. Tonibell ice cream vehicles ran on LPG.and had an electric clutch on the main engine front pulley which powered a shaft to drive the ice cream machine.
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OURA* I have a cousin Denise Webb as was.
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On 2/1/2019 at 12:56 AM, DJ360 said:
However there is no doubt that both the NHS and Local Councils are under extreme pressure to provide more services and deal with more 'stuff', in the context of a real terms cut in funding which is entirely deliberate and down to central Govt. This is what I was getting at. I would be very surprised if the changes you outlined are being made for the 'hell of it'. I reckon it is almost certain that a legislative/regulatory, cost saving, or both, imperative has forced the changes. Possibly you could enquire of your Local Council or your NHS contacts, as to the reasons for the changes?
Col. Looks like a bit of belt tightening by the Clinical Commissioning Group. GP practices are not contracted to provide the service and CCGs are not funded to cover the cost of sharps bin collection and disposal although they have done it for years. So now we have one rule, 4 councils and 4 different approaches.
Broxtowe B.C.
Complete a form - required to register - collection on Thursday needs to be available by 6.30 am - need to phone week before for collection.
Nottingham City Council
Register by phone - state how often required - phone to arrange next collection.
Erewash B.C.
Basically told CCG to foff - only housebound patients will receive collections - non-housebound patients should return sharps to to GP practice.
Ashfield D.C.
No need to register - phone to arrange Thursday collection - 24 hours notice.
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14 hours ago, DJ360 said:
I reckon it is almost certain that a legislative/regulatory, cost saving, or both, imperative has forced the changes. Possibly you could enquire of your Local Council or your NHS contacts, as to the reasons for the changes?
It's on my list Col.
I see your first sentence and it would be easy to surmise that to be the case, but if so all authorities should work in a similar way. Catfan's posts suggest that he still enjoys a simple drop off service. Hopefully someone will know or more to the point admit to knowing.
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13 hours ago, DJ360 said:
Not something I have direct experience of, but I suspect that this may be yet another case of the Local Council having something dropped on it from above (I.E. Central Govt or poss NHS/NICE) and then getting all the blame for something outside its control. Exactly the same happening with areas such as highways, general waste disposal, social care and many other things. All a result of the combination of cuts in funding and Govt. dumping more responsibility onto Local Councils, forcing them to try to do more with less.
The above is pure guesswork and incorrect. It has for many years, been the duty of the local authorities as waste collection authorities to arrange for the collection of household waste including clinical waste. They have now changed a simple drop off service at my local health centre to a system which involves many layers of council, NHS and even GPs. It is not something I consider unusual for a council organisation.
13 hours ago, DJ360 said:So it appears that the NHS is responsible for your healthcare and your supply of needles and drugs, (There even seems to be a prescription form for getting a Sharps Box), but once again the Local Council is expected to clear up the mess. I can only see a financial motive for this.
Yes the NHS is responsible for my healthcare. I am required to provide blood samples to manage my condition (not diabetes) I could visit my GP or a hospital but I was told this results in a cost to the NHS of around £90 each time but I would of course be able to leave my sharps there. So I purchased a machine (£300) and am able to self monitor. An email detailing the results is sent to the Queens Medical Centre and they inform me of any changes I need to make. I retired 15 years ago and still pay a sizable tax bill, I don't care who collects my waste but I do object to wasting my money.
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Lizzie it is an absolute waste of resources and if it is made too difficult it will result in sharps being dumped. I would love to have been present when the Council was formulating that farce.
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I Visited the health centre today for a full bloods check ready for my annual review next week. I asked as normal, if it would be ok to take in a sharps box at the review and was advised this is no longer allowed, although it was a simple two-stage process the system has been changed. It now involves Notts County Council, Broxtowe Borough Council, my health service practice, and my GP. Quite clearly this has been designed to reduce costs and improve efficiency for council tax payers and the NHS.
How do I obtain the service?
To arrange this service please contact Customer Services details are given below. A customer services advisor will take your name, address and the name and address of your healthcare professional
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This information is passed to the County Council in their position as the Waste Disposal Authority who operate a screening process in accordance with current national guidelines
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They will send a form to your stated healthcare professional to determine the category of waste you produce
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The completed form is then returned to the County Council who will inform Broxtowe Borough Council on how the waste needs to be managed. Broxtowe Borough Council will then inform you of the collection method allocated for the waste you produced
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Records of a customer's collection remain confidential and remain with the County Council
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7 hours ago, jonab said:
It could well have been Parr's - that name does seem familiar in the back of my mind. As I mentioned earlier, I don't think there was any indication outside the building as to what went on there, it was just general 'jungle rumblings' at the time that they made Post Office relays and that Ericcsons was very big in Nottingham (Beeston, mainly) and in telephones
I think it may have been Pressac, they were in Stapleford and are now on Glaisdale Drive.
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I've got one too, cleans my teeth, my tongue, massages my gums and gives me a signal after 2 minute which apparently is the optimum time. Presumably this is based on an adult having 32 or perhaps 28 if wisdom teeth have been removed giving an average of around 4 secs per tooth. I suppose the next model will be able to count how many teeth we actually have and adjust the time accordingly I could do with saving 20 seconds twice a day.
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After hearing some educated 50 something person speaking on the radio in todays must do mockney accent and then listening to an Eddie Cochran track. I got to thinking that a lot of the music we loved, could be, with a little tinkering re-released for today's audience.
Free Steps to Heaven - Eddie Cochran
Air That I Breave - Hollies
Hey Girl Don't Bovver Me - The Tams
I Should of Known Better - Beatles
I Fink of You - Merseybeats
Sweet Nuffinks - Brenda Lee
Deaf of a Clown - Kinks
Don't Frow Your Love Away - Seachers
A Fousand Stars - Billy Fury
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Hi Dave, I remember a few things about her but shamefully do not remember her name, she worked in the offices at Players.The day after I first escorted her home my next door neighbour David Barker, who also worked there, gave me a rundown of what had happened the night before.
Your question suggests that you know a bit more than I do. Did she have a sister?
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5 hours ago, Jill Sparrow said:
there was a considerable delay before the door was opened by an ancient and venerable butler who looked as though he belonged in a Victorian melodrama! On learning what was required, he informed the visitors that he would go and ask Miss Edge whether she would permit them to borrow the key to the church and disappeared down a long corridor at a very slow pace indeed.
The butler was not slow paced when he strode across the road to collect his Jean Harlow lookalike daughter from our goodnight embraces. The friendship didn't have much future as her dad appeared to have sight of everything that moved in Strelley when his daughter was out and the walk home in the early hours of the morning was a bit creepy.
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My cousin Jacqueline Hodgson b.1949 went to Guilford. She wasn't a Pinkett, she was a Hodgson and she is not a Wilson.
Davidh2308 any more info, brothers, sisters etc ? If it is her I'll try and get in touch.
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3 hours ago, fogrider said:
davep4591's post fills in a lot of useful details about the plant and repairs side. I wonder , Dave,( or anyone who may know), did one of the managers on the plant side have a very old Rolls Royce ? Certainly employed under the Cripps company name,
Regards all
I am not aware of this but I'm out on Tuesday night with 4 ex Cripps men I worked with in the 60s. It's a long shot but I'll see if anyone knows. A few of the old Cripps plant men went to Sinbad Plant.
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NBL The gateman I knew was John Linguard.
Signwriting was outsourced the one I knew was Dennis ?
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My recollection is that Cripps operated in Nottingham as Cripps of Nottingham for cars and commercials and R. Cripps co.Ltd. for the rest.
At Triumph Road there was at various times a commercial vehicle shop - Commer, Dodge, International Harvester Lodestar, and Scammell Scarab.
Commercial vehicle sales department.
A tractor shop - International Harvester.
A heavy plant shop repairs and hire - mainly Scammell
A plant shop for refurbs to Drotts and IH bulldozers.
An engine reconditioning shop for plant machines.
A field services department for all plant stuff.
A fuel injection reconditioning shop
later cars arrived and a body shop opened.
A viewing gallery to watch all the Raleigh office girls passing by.
Abbey Bridge was at one time the plant shop and the body shop..
Main offices and pay office at Parliament Street. some car sales.
Cripps also owned a block of cottages/houses somewhere near the nurses homes and where Hooley's used to operate from, some key staff occupied these premises.
Lenton Lane was opened when Henly's got involved. I remember a director of Henly's asking a Cripps manager how much he earned per hour for a commercial bay against a car bay, the manager was told he could get 2 cars in a commercial bay. Commercial repairs didn't last too long after that.
R.Cripps and Co. Ltd had depots At Nottingham, Manchester, Leeds and Aycliffe County Durham.
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1 hour ago, Frank Johnson said:
Many thanks Ian and Dave P, ( not by any chance Dave Parkinson: ex Claremont?)
No sorry not me Frank.
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9 hours ago, Frank Johnson said:
The 1959 and 1963 photos bring back memories. Does anyone remember what was opposite the New Inn before it became Bristol Street Motors ( which it may well no longer be). We used to get the newspapers from a newsagent on Mansfield Road, opposite Ebers Road. There was also a ladies fashion shop (very posh), called Hilda Hansen. My mum used to be forever looking at the stylish clothes there in the window, day-dreaming! Later on there was also a Kebab place along there and a 'beeroff'.
Siddon's garage occupied the whole site along New street and Jenner Street. They were main Citroen dealers, previously Jowett dealers they also dealt in Ford and Austin. Ben Siddon and his motor trade cronies would gather regularly decked out in their plus fours ready for a shooting day out. There was a section of the stores area where he would hang pheasants and hares which he would occasionally give to 'the workers'. Hilda Hansen was indeed a posh frock shop. As an apprentice mechanic I used to volunteer to fetch cakes and fags so that I could look in the windows, not at the clothes but there was some posh 'totty' working there.
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On 18/01/2018 at 11:22 AM, philmayfield said:
Bristol Street Motors used to be “Siddons for Citroen’s”
I began my apprenticeship at Siddon's in 1961, just me and an old fellah 'Jack Slater' on Citroens. I think before Ben Siddon became a Citroen dealer he sold Jowetts I took my test in a Jowett Javelin.
After a 'free transfer' I completed my apprenticeship at Cripps (commercial vehicles) Triumph Road.
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In days of old I remember Canning Circus being snarled up regularly when the spring loaded poles on the trolley busses became detached from the overhead wires. This when there was very little traffic compared to today, no doubt it happened in other parts of the City but we were young then and it wasn't a problem to us, in fact it added a bit of spice to the journey.
Farrands, Marsdens, Maypole, Dewhurst, VG, Vernons, etc
in General Chat about Nottingham
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Sir John Borlase Warren was born in Stapleford in 1753 and his family lived there for about 300 years, the Canning Circus pub is the impostor. Prior to the Wetherspoons JBW there was The Warren Arms across the road for about 300 years.
To complete the link Marsden's shop at the Roache was owned by David Attenborough's baker and grocer grandfather back in the early 1900s.