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Benjamin1945 #41 The photo at #20 is taken from the Swan Hotel looking down Bridge Street towards St Peters church. The 8 Bells used to be on the right, the next pub down, at the bottom was the Ramme Inn and round the corner on the left was the Bridge Tavern that used to get regularly flooded. The off licence is still there as shown on Google street view in June this year.

A Shark alarm at Bondi Beach in Sydney’ sent everyone rushing from the water –except for three young boys who didn’'t hear the siren. Onlookers were horrified to see a dorsal fin moving fast towards them. Suddenly, a tall bloke took a deep breath, dived into the surf, swam past the shark, and scooped up two of the boys, swiftly bringing them to the shore and safety. He then took another deep breath and swam out again, snatching the third boy before the rapidly approaching, shark could attack and got him back to the beach in one piece. The heroic bloke then put a knife between his clenched teet

Hi Ian - No Bulwell and from views expressed here no-one will be disappointed

Just thought you would like to know that a Mansfield lass Suzanne Balogh won gold in the Trap shooting at the Rio games. Suzanne comes from Mansfield in Victoria, a small town in the foothills of the Australian Alps named after Mansfield in Notts. One of many towns and suburbs named after Nottinghamshire suburbs or villages. Newstead, Sherwood and Rainworth can all be found in Brisbane.

Douglas Adams Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy A brilliant radio series An acceptable TV series A very poor movie Theme is Journey of the Sorcerer composed by Bernie Leadon a great piece if SCI-FI music, The Eagles also recorded a version

Nope! Only one Member shown in Adelaide but not me

The technical coverage of the Rio games is brilliant but I just wish the stupid talking heads would stop calling them heroes. They just happen to be able to run, jump, kick, hit, throw or stand still better than the average Joe, but heroes they aint. Heroes are those among us who daily put their lives on the line for us, the active armed forces, the emergency services, civil rescue etc.

Carni, Your description of mode is mathematically correct. The "Mode" when applied to digital cameras usually means a setting at which the camera automatically selects what it believes are the best settings for the type of photo that you are taking. Some examples are Manual, Portrait, Landscape, Beach/Ocean, Sports, Night, Sunrise/Sunset Animals, Flowers, etc.etc. Generally the more sophisticated a camera the more modes it has. Most modern cameras have far more capability than most of us will ever use.

Is it just me or does the picture on #3 remind you of many of the canteens at the local Nottinghamshire collieries? I guess given the time frame, post nationalisation, the building style was pretty common in the late 40's and early 50's

We have a bin for general waste 140 litres collected weekly, a recycling bin 240 litres and a green waste bin 240 litres collected alternate weeks. which are usually full each collection day Years ago we had a small galvanised iron bin that was rarely full when collected. Where did all this rubbish we dispose of come from, must be packaging and the fact that people no longer have chooks and pigs to feed the food scraps to

The Midland General B8, remember it well. One and a half hours from Mansfield (near the current Mansfield town station) to Nottingham (Huntingdon Street) The blind used to say Blidworth, Hucknall, Bestwood. The rather circuitous route was often serviced by a double decker that had a sunken gangway down the drivers side of the bus with four passenger bench seats on the left. Very hard for the clippie to get the fares of the passengers near the windows. Can't remember the make or model of the bus but I am sure Stephen or someone else will know.

Interestingly It is census night here in OZ tomorrow night and the question about religion has been reframed with religions placed in this order on the form. It is an optional question No religion Catholic Angligan (Church of England) Uniting Church Presbyterian Buddhism Islam Greek Orthodox Baptist Hinduism Other (please specify) Judaism does not get its own box?? With the 'No religion" being placed at the top it is estimated that the number of Australians reporting no religion will rise from 22% in the last census to around 40% this time round. It is inevitable that baptisms and

Just attempted to watch the third? episode of the new Top Gear show on free to air TV here down under, gave up after ten minutes I was prepared to cut the show a bit of slack, given that it was a new team, but the only non swear word that comes to mind is pathetic. It was never going to work as it was trying to follow the old format which had been honed by Clarkson, Captain Slow and The Hamster. Unless the BEEB completely revamp the format then it is inevitably bound for failure. I will not be watching any more - utter rubbish.

Some comments about stuff on cars that you don't see any more. "Club" locks on steering wheels Wire "pingers" fitted to the wheel arches to help stop you hitting the kerb with your tyres. Earth straps hanging on the back of the car to earth static electricity and to supposedly help reduce travel sickness

Ayupmeducks #6 There are many that would have said that in the seventies Port Kembla was the end of the earth with its steelworks, coal loader and zinc and copper smelter and coal mines along the escarpment. If you remember the 198 metre chimney at Electrolytic Refinery and Smelting Company, It was demolished in February 2014. The air is much cleaner in the area now. Having lived in the area previously I have to say that the beaches from Stanwell Park to South 'gong and again south of Kembla are some of the best in the world. .

Brassed Off, So many great scenes and having played in a colliery band I can put a name to everyone in that film but one scene that makes me laugh is the one where the band is in one of the rehearsal rooms waiting to be called on stage and the announcer stumbles over the word colliery and Jim says "I bet they're glad they closed the bugger" Danny's speech at the end was an evocative epitaph for an industry and communities like the one I was born into and brought up in

With all the comments about the Lada I am surprised that no-one has come up with the old joke - Why does a Lada have a heated rear screen - So your hands do not get cold when you are pushing it. For all its' mentions we went all over the UK following the Forest in a Hillman Imp sport (with the bag of cement in the front) and the only problem we had was a broken accelerator cable whilst going down the M1 near Trowell services. A quick roadside repair by tying the throttle open with a shoe lace got us to the AA point at Trowell with the engine screaming its guts out. The AA man pulled enough l

Lighting 321's and waiting 'til they fizzed then dropping them down the nearest manhole hoping they would float down the sewer and find a pocket of methane. If you were successful then there would be an almighty bang and it would lift all the manhole covers in the street. Winter warmers - Baked bean or jam tins with holes around the bottom and long wire handles, filled with hot coals which you swung around in the air to get the new coals going. Great for roasting chestnuts.

Just got back from a break in warmer climes to find that our local Saturday paper (The Advertiser) the only one I buy had increased from $2.50 to $3.00. The bl**dy cheek. It is no better than a comic no worthwhile news or analysis. It is the last time I will buy one. Like TBI #5 I will now get all my news off 't interweb.

Rockin' Goose and Red River Valley by Johnnie and the Hurricanes whilst spinning round on the "Whiplash" at the Goose Fair in the early sixties

At our school we always had a choice of custard Lumps or slices

From Nottingham to Hull I bet you had "keep on going round by Goole". Words from the Humber Bridge song. Generally regarded as the only song with Goole in the words. A great version by the Ripley Wayfarers is available here youtube.com/watch?v=zvuQJNVDJYk

The only Shippos' I ever liked was the little man with the rattle on the scoreboard at the kop end of the City Ground when the Forest got a goal.

Those photos in post 1 and many others posted on this site brought to mind some words from Emrys Bryson circa mid 60's about what Nottingham is "This city is so many things to so many people. For a tourist, it's the Castle and Robin Hood. A toilet roll holder with the city's coat of arms on it. For the motorist, its a lot of big roundabouts (with flowers on them) and dead keen traffic wardens (with no flies on them) It's where you can see a Test Match. It's where - if you happen to be a brass-bandsman - you come to play "Poet and Peasant" on your cornet or trombone in the Albert Hall. If yo

Good link Catfan I had missed that one. The picture of Crocus Street in the Meadows reminds me of the announcer on "Housewives' Choice", some time in the 1960's : "Now we have a request from a lady in Nottingham. Her address conjures up an idyllic picture. She writes from Crocus Street, The Meadows ........" ​Strange how the picture from the words and reality are a long way apart. I suppose at sometime in the past before the houses were built there were meadows and wild flowers in the area.