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Wishing you all a Covid free Christmas and a vaccination new year

As a kid I remember seeing my first black footballer. It was Lindy Delapenha playing for Mansfield Town in the late 50's. As a winger or inside forward he had a ferocious shot. Made over a hundred appearances for the Stags

That sounds like some of the pubs I used to drink in. As you were going in the door someone was coming out via the window.

The Blind Employment Factory of Waterloo Road London started in 1799 as the School for the Indigent Blind and grew until 1901 when its site was purchased by the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway and it moved to Leatherhead and became the Royal School for the Blind. Many wicker baskets were used in the coal mines and for moving textiles around in the mills. As katyjay said the was a Morris, Wilkinson and Co of Victoria Works Basford, they were established in 1889 and in 1914 had 230 employees. Image from Graces Guide

carni, Thank you for your heartfelt post, it is one of the few "reports" that I have read that bring home the reality of this terrible virus to those of us that are vulnerable. We will be exercising due caution over Christmas even though we are currently free of Covid here in South Australia but news reports are coming in of it kicking off again in NSW. Good to hear you are both coming out the otherside and are on the way to recovery, hang in there kiddo.

Get well soon Ben, you are following in famous footsteps, another with a reputation for the ladies, Clark Gable, visited there during WWII.

Same problem here Phil, they have a great propensity to go FIRE, AIM, READY! Our state government has announced it will be taxing users of electric vehicles on a per kilometre driven basis, how else are they going to recoup the taxes we pay each time we fill up our tanks. Another thing they don't do very well is anything involved in IT.

Hi Mary, I was talking about the house of correction in Southwell, especially the link provided by HSR which includes archaeological information about test digs in the area Thanks Phil, Edward Cludd, that's the name i was trying to think of.

I am sure you would only have to hand out that sentence to a few and the message would soon get around and modify certain behaviours. It would be interesting if you could find more information. Used to regularly go to the swimming baths at a school? in Southwell off Nottingham Rd, the name escapes me at the moment, and afterwards a beer or two at the Reindeer or the Grapes.

Good photo but to me the proportions of Barton buses have somehow never looked quite right, I think it is too many different sized windows

By law cats in all council areas in South Australia have to be registered and one council is proposing a a "cat curfew" in passing a law for all cats to be confined to their owners property between 9:00pm and 7:00am. The council says it is being brought in to protect wildlife and limit the nuisance behaviour of cats. Are there any moves to do this in the UK? I think it is a good idea.

HSR What a fascinating document and you can't help but feel sorry for the Handford family who lost both their sons on the same day in the same battle. It appears that they have no known graves. I think this description of houses of correction should be brought back into use to house some of the idiots at large today "one or more fit and convenient house of correction for suppressing and punishing rogues, vagabonds and other idle vagrant and disorderly persons”.

Eating KFC on Christmas Day has become a tradition in Japan!

Yes all of those and if I were organising the games I would get rid of all the sports rubbish and the games would consist of Snooker, Billiards, Bar Billiards, Darts, Long Alley Skittles, Table Skittles, Aunt Sally, Dominoes, Shove Ha'penny, Marbles, Bowls, both Crown Green and Flat, Cribbage, Backgammon and Three or Nine Men's Morris. Plenty of venues available and without mortgaging the city or country to put it on. You can probably guess I am not a fan of the Olympics, summer or winter and never watch it, the costs have become obscene and it is about time we took the trough away f

Yes LizzieM That was in 2005, 20 passengers and crew were killed when Flight 101 crashed off Miami Beach Florida when the wing of the 1947 Grumman Mallard separated from the fuselage due to metal fatigue. Like you many of the passengers were returning from a shopping trip. I remember seeing this on a National Geographic TV documentary.

Yes and Terry Hennessey was there to mop up and clear the ball. Peter Grummitt was a world class goalkeeper and would have walked into any other international side but at that time England had many top notch goalkeepers. Some names that come to mind are Ron Springett, Gordon Banks, Peter Bonetti. Grummitt played 3 times for England Under 23's

I think it is about time Forest got rid of their overpaid, under performing foreign imports and started building a team with local and UK talent. If worst comes to worst I would rather them be relegated playing some some young local talent than the team they have now that is obviously costing a fortune in wages and just cannot seem to score a goal. To this day, winning the world cup aside, Aye,Aye Ian's hat trick against Everton in the FA Cup sixth round was probably my most memorable football moment. The downside of that game of course was when Labone clogged Zigger Zagger and pu

Can't argue too much with that one Ben, I must have seen Wally Ardron play when I was about four or five years old but can't actually remember it. Obviously that is a team drawn over a few era's. The best and most entertaining Forest side I have ever seen is this one. Grummitt, Hindley, Winfield, Hennessey, McKinley, Newton, Lyons, Barnwell, Baker, Wignall and Storey-Moore I make no apologies to Brian Clough's teams that won the European Cup, great teams as they were, but nowhere near as entertaining as the 1966/67 side.

A little bit ashamed to say i've never been to Wollaton Hall or the park. We often went to the great houses of the Dukeries and Hardwick, Haddon and Chatsworth in Derbyshire but never Wollaton?

The short way to get to the Festival Inn when travelling south on the M1 in the sixties.

DJ There is a thread on here called Down Clumber Street it should answer your question Down Clumber Street. - Nottingham City Centre - Nottstalgia Nottingham Forums

Decently thick crusts on sliced bread, bakery or commercial sliced bread, not the wafer thin ones that seem to be the norm these days.

Sadly things are not getting better for Forest even with their new manager. With a third of the season gone they are still languishing in the relegation zone. I despair that it will get better. According to the pundits, apart from last years teams relegated from the EPL they have the strongest squad on paper. Somebody needs to tell them that the game is not played on paper.

Looks like a village! Great stuff nonnaB and the grandchildren A picture postcard photo, but how dumb am I looking at it and wondering why it is snowing, of course it is winter there.

A snack food company in Adelaide claimed it was the states largest builder as it made hundreds of gingerbread houses at Christmas. Here is an Aussie Bush Shack complete with kangaroo, koala and cockatoo (photo from SBS)