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poohbear - unless you have a really weird numbering system in your street they were not even close! I wouldn't wont them working on something safety related if they can't get the right bl**dy house number

I see that England play Iceland in the next round at the Euros Ron Hodgson says that if they are good enough to win they will then go on and play either Tesco or Sainsbury's

Good one Catfan Because of classification changes it is always difficult to do comparisons, however, a couple of references can be made. Using a purchasing power calculation the following occurs. 1964 Parks half a million 2015 adjusted figure should be around 9 million actual 3 million 1964 Children and Old people half a million 2015 adjusted figure again around 9 million actual 89 million, not including the 44 million spent on protecting children. I wonder what has happened to society? It appears that the largest part of the budget is being spent on social issues. Interestingly the avera

In the early sixties Nottingham Corporation spent the following (all amounts in pounds) Education - 8.75 million Police and Fire - 1.75 million Highways and Lighting - 1 million Health - 1 Million House refuse, Sewers and Sewage Disposal - 1 million Children and old people - .5 million Parks - .5 million Other services (Libraries, Baths, Housing, etc.) - 3 million It had a population of 310,380 The latest estimate of population is 314,400 not that much different. I wonder what the spend on the above is today? (after adjustment)

Bl**dy websites that jump all over the screen when loading and just when you think they have finished and go to click on something they give one more jump and you find you have clicked on one of their useless adverts or some completely useless news item that you are not interested in. I am sure the barstewards do it on purpose.

barrettkellar #3 Certainly not you usual house names and I must admit to having to look up a couple of them and, as is often the case, left this site with much more knowledge than I had before.

Did the school that you went to have "Houses" Don't know how they selected pupils for houses but it seemed to me that pupils that were similar were put in the same houses, by design or accident? Did the house masters match the houses that they were in? The houses at my school were based on local areas and from memory - Newstead - always came last at sports related events e.g. athletics, swimming etc. Welbeck - won all the sports events Rufford - best at stuff like chess, quizzes Clumber - good at arts related activities

Some time in the sixties? Quote from a flustered prisoner at Nottingham Guildhall on being simply put on probation: "I would like to thank you from the heart of my bottom, Poptin Catpiss......."

Simply the Greatest, R.I.P. Muhammad Ali

It really pi**es me off when trying to watch something interesting like this I get a message that says "Content Unavailable. This video is not authorised for your location (au)" FFS why???

Catfan #6 Thanks for the offer but no thanks. A twenty foot container from the UK to OZ is around 4000 quid Can buy one here in OZ for 1500 to 2250 quid with a 1.6 litre VTEC motor.

I like the comment about the postage - "Will post to Australia"

Earlier this week the longest Ghan passenger train in over a decade left Adelaide for Darwin a journey of 3000 km (1864 miles) The train was 1.1.km (1203 yards) long. If you wanted to model this train in your layouts then in HO gauge it would be nearly 14 yards long or in N gauge 7 and a half yards long you would need a big room. The longest train in Australia was an iron ore train 682 wagons, 8 locomotives, nearly 100,000 tons and 4.5 miles long

Songs on a theme of Buses Transport of Delight - Flanders and Swan - London Transport Red Bus Bus Stop - The Hollies The Greyhound Bus Song - St Lennox Wheels on the Bus - Children's Song The Country Bus - Colin Pitts - Memories of Midland Red Buses

Songs on the theme of cars Bubble Car Song Beep Beep - The Playmates Drive my Car - Beatles Route 66 - Chuck Berry among many Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys Jump in my Car - Ted Mulry Gang

Had school dinners in the early sixties, 5 bob a week, only because it was too far to get home and back during lunch time. One thing that sticks in my mind, and throat, was the cabbage. I don't know what they did to it but it was always bright fluorescent lime green. Like no other cabbage I had seen up to then and until now 50 years later. As older students sometimes we had to endure sitting on the headmasters table, he would have been at home at a trough, speaking with his mouth full and spitting it over the food of those unfortunate enough to be within spitting distance. Being prefects we

Never knew that it was illegal to work before 7:00am before the age of 13. I used to try and get my round done and be home by 7 to have breakfast with my dad or brother who had just come home from the night shift. Yes Jim, you did see some "interesting" sights, on one of the streets I delivered to I was never sure who lived in which house as I often saw the same people at different houses?

ValuerJim#37 I delivered my papers on a Trent Tourist too, three speed Sturmey Archer gears and a front wheel hub dynamo for the lights. Never had a pannier rack, used to balance the paper bag on the crossbar. The shop owner used to drop the second or sometimes third bag at a prearranged spot on the round. Loved going around on Saturdays to collect the paper money, got lots of tips then too.

Used to deliver the papers in our village and one of the few joys in the winter was being the first footprints in the newly fallen snow. Enjoyed Saturdays delivering the Football Post and the Football News, usually made heaps on tips from the blokes in the pubs. Sunday was always hard work because of the size of the papers and the "extras" In Adelaide the local paper "The Advertiser" can best be described as a comic not bought it for years. I get my news from t'interweb these days. I do use the link that Michael Booth put on to read the UK newspapers now and again.

Compo, Spent many an hour in there drinking frothy coffee, before taking the BSA Rocket Gold Star for a blast along the "ramper". Often had races to see who could get to the Limes Café near Bilsthorpe and back the quickest.

Blondie #102 You were right, the B8 originally went from near the Midland Hotel at Mansfield Station and then through Rainworth, Blidworth, Fishpool, (Ravenshead), Papplewick, Linby, Hucknall, Bestwood, along past a golf course, Bulwell Forest? and then back on to Mansfield Road to Huntingdon Street. Very much round the houses, it used to take about an hour and a half. Used it many times on my visits to the City Ground before I had a car.

A mate of mine reckons the snags aren't cooked until you can snap them. Oh ye of little faith, one of the great joys of life is a few beers on a sunny day followed by piece of eye fillet BBQ'd medium/rare washed down with a good shiraz with some of that healthy salad stuff, not too much though. Alas very little chance of that here over the last few days, so windy it would blow a dog off a chain.

Michael, Pretty much a 100% accurate representation of what happens down under too.

Mum was right handed and dad was left handed so I could do most things with either hand but when called upon to peel the vegetables I used to make a deliberate mess of everything to get out of doing it. Mum used to get so exasperated she used to say "geraht of it, your as much use as a one armed paper hanger."

Colly0410 #37 I remember the FV432 very well, used to work on them when I was at COD Chilwell. They had a Rolls Royce K60 multi-fuel engine so almost never failing to proceed. It is a day to be noted here in South Australia as we have shut down our last coal fired power station. Watch this space for the power outages next summer when the wind powered generators cannot support the demand and we have to use power supplied via an interconnector from Victoria which ironically generates most of its power from brown coal and they do not have enough spare capacity to supply SA. Bet my spherical ob