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Does Skegness Pier still get it's legs wet or has the sea gone out too far? Well remember in the late 50's, as a little nipper excitedly walking up Lumley Rd to the clock tower and beach having travelled on the train for the "pit-trip".

Billy Two Rivers with his Mohican hair cut and his war dance was a favourite of my mum.

Looking at the stats from the Bolton game Forest hat 57% of the possession, half as many shots and shots on target (4) as Bolton and one third the number of corners. Aitor Karanka's after match comments were pathetic. Unfortunately, unless something changes dramatically, I am afraid I can only see a potential relegation battle for next season

Ian, Don't forget the Forest Hospital on Southwell Rd Mansfield, know locally as the "Fever Hospital" or the Ransom Hospital, below, nearer Rainworth It was called Ransom Sanitorium, it too had patients in beds on the verandahs.

Compo Yes the chart hit was by the Mixtures but Mungo Jerry did this version

Here is one of my all time favourite sketches from Eric and Ernie with the gorgeous Nina from Nina and Fredrick. 40+ years old and still bl**dy hilarious. Brilliant timing and ad-lib from Eric

Glad to see that the Magpies have secured a place in the play-offs. I hope they can get an automatic promotion spot and if they succeed and don't pass Forest on the way down there should be some cracking local derbies next season.

Woke this morning to a sea mist/fog, could barely see the houses across the road, it's still hazy and I can't quite see the horizon but bright sunshine and 27 deg. Not bad for half past Autumn

A defeat or two is an understatement. A win or two is probably more like it. More likely to be battling to avoid relegation given recent results. I wish it were something different but I am getting a bit tired of the cry we are building for next year and we expect to be bidding for promotion. There is something fundamentally wrong at the Forest for them to be so mediocre for so long, I don't know what it is but it is there. Hey, just had a thought how about asking Arsene Wenger if he wants a job!

John Harker barges used to ply the Trent carrying oil and like PP I had to hang on to my basket and keep net as the draught sucked all the water out and the wash brought it back with a vengeance often washing the basket away if you had not moved it far enough up the bank.

Who used to play this horse racing game or this football game?

The Settlers looked like they were trying to emulate that great Aussie group The Seekers, the singer even sounds a bit like Judith Durham Here is Pan's People doing the same song The Lightning Tree

Was that the Monk's who owned S.A. Monk of Sutton in Ashfield and Nottingham?

Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime, Pushbike Song and Lady Rose, De de-de-de de de-de-de-de..... great stuff Guinness - One of the essential food groups during the sixties and seventies

That picture of St Mary's church Blidworth is take from Ricketts Lane which if you follow along takes you past the old Blidworth windmill, "Druid's Stone" and out on to the A60 the Nottingham-Mansfield road near the table top tree and the Bessie Shepherd stone.

Ian, Yes Henstocks was there in our day Some great memories in those pictures, never used the Pop In but regularly used the Swiss Chalet for a coffee. Cant remember ever going in to the Horse and Groom but often had a few in the pub right behind the photographer who took the shot of Vernons store (any thoughts as to which pub?) Birds pork butchers, good pork pies but my favourite from there for Saturday tea was a nice slice of gammon with a pineapple ring, new potatoes and fresh garden peas. You can just see the back entrance to the Swan in the shot of Birds, had a few in t

The youngest was 10, the eldest 67 and so many youngsters. They were all a tragic loss and it is only fitting that they should be remembered.

Great shot of the viaduct Ian. Must have been taken after 2003 as it was then it got its spring clean and restoration. Completed in 1827, with fifteen arches made of local stone at a height of 60 feet above street level. Just at the top of the photo you can see the ring road which together with the Four Seasons shopping centre (which can be seen in the lower right of the photo) the council barbarians destroyed so much of historic Mansfield. Just below the centre of the photo is the gothic Bentinck Memorial in the centre of the Market Place There were several good bike shops

That's the Trent End of my memories, we always stood level with the eighteen yard line in the East Stand. Bovril and a pie at half time on a cold February Saturday afternoon. Hurrying back to the car to listen to the results on Sports Report and driving home with the heater on full blast to thaw out your feet. A time when all the games were played on Saturday afternoon and often midweek games too. Today's overpaid snowflakes would be up in arms. We get some live games on free to air TV and I am glad I don't have to pay to watch this negative football, at the edge of the penalty area

The thing I particularly like about these games is the inclusion of the para athletes as part of the mainstream games. I find it humbling to see these athletes striving to do their best despite their disabilities. Well done to the games organisers and to the athletes.

Yes and they often start roadside fires that can get away if not acted on quickly by the MFS or the CFS Most major fires outside the metropolitan areas are started by sparks from welding or angle grinding, or from agricultural equipment hitting rocks and sparking. We have even had fires caused by the hot exhausts from cars parking on long dry grass.

Here is one for all the Mods, some great photos too. For the Rockers, The Royal Enfield is the longest established motor cycle brand still in production and the Bullet has the longest production run of all motorcycles, it is now manufactured in India

Anyone watching this years Commonwealth Games from the Gold Coast in Queensland? Unlike the post above from FLY2 this time it is the Poms being whupped by the Aussies.

Doubt if it would have been a screw top in the seventies, had a bottle last week still quite drinkable and quite nostalgic, cheap too What about this?

Whilst Notts is getting a few showers the weather is unseasonally warm here. It is 35 deg C here with the ever present danger of bushfires, in fact we have had a total fire ban for the last two days so no burn offs or outdoor bbq's over a fire pit and you cant even weld or use an angle grinder outside on fire ban days. This is a picture of a bushfire at Stansbury on the Yorke Peninsula that burnt through the bush right to the ocean edge.