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I never knew that, as I often say you learn something new every day.

Didn't Gash's buses to Newark leave from Huntingdon St?

Remember seeing these around the touchlines and behind the goal lines at many football grounds in the 60's and 70's

Saw these guys at one of the college do's in the early 70's Turn the sound up to the max.

Here is a (poor quality) image of a Home Brewery truck (photo from brewery history.com a wiki site)

A similar shot from a lower angle, mid sixties (photo Nottingham Post)

My kind of truck

Looking forward to the cricket this year, both the World Cup and the Ashes series. I hope the Barmy Army give the sandpaper kids heaps. I hope it is on free to air and not behind the bl**dy pay wall

If I could give them a few quid $ and have say ten channels of my choice not the endless channels of dross you get with the normal package then I would pay for it. I guess I'll just have to stream it.

Thanks Ian, I too had Pierre Lemaitre for social sciences, don't know why we did that as we were doing engineering?

Totally, utterly and completely pi$$ed off. Just found out that the FA Cup final is not on free to air television in Australia. It is on pay TV, ESPN Instead we get UEFA Women's Champions League? WTF is happening with our international sporting events more and more are being put behind the pay wall.

Ian it looks more like the building of West Notts Tech at the junction of Nottingham Road (top right hand corner) and Derby Road past the front of the site. When finished it replaced the old technical college on Chesterfield Road. Many lunch time pints and pasties at the Rushley just down the road.

May 1968?

Of to exercise my compulsory democratic right today and possibly partake of a "democracy sausage" if it is around lunchtime. Do community groups hold sausage sizzles at polling stations in the UK? It is going to be a sunny 23 deg today, not bad day for late autumn and thankfully a little more rain tomorrow.

Landers Bakery was at Mansfield Woodhouse (Photos from ourmansfieldandarea.org) Van from 1963 and Bakery in 1981

I am sure Ian will remember this one. 11 Queen Street? (image from ourmansfieldandarea.org.uk)

You can get a Tiger her for between 54,000 and 75,000 quid for a recent restoration, Business opportunity for someone as cars here do not have to endure salt on the roads in winter.

Here's one for Ben. A Landers price list from 1963 The smell from the bakery on Woodh'us Rd near the Black Bull made your stomach rumble Image from ourmansfieldandarea.org.uk You can see the full listing of all their products there.

The Sunbeam Alpine became the first Bond car in Dr No and I think I read somewhere that the Rootes Group were asked to provide free cars for Goldfinger but the sales execs did not think it would amount to much publicity or generate sales so they declined. Didn't Maxwell Smart drive a Sunbeam Tiger?

I reckon that the only good part of Van Der Valk was the theme tune, Eye Level by the Simon Park Orchestra amazingly it got to number 1 in September 1973.

Saltergate sounds so much better than Proact Stadium Proact sounds like something blokes take for waterworks problems

A later incantation of The Jolly Higglers was used in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Hiiggler - A person who travels around selling small items. You learn something new each day

At my school it was more Albert and the Lion

Chesterfield had a home attendance of around 4,000 last season, their first in non league football. Notts averaged around 7,000 and fellow relegated Yeovil had around 3,000. Lets see what they can do in the Vanarama National League

The Granada was my favourite cinema in Mansfield. Demolished when the vandals at the council built the concrete abomination that is the Four Seasons shopping centre as was much of Mansfield's heritage when they built the ring road. Never went in the Empire cinema but had a pint or two of Shippo's across the road in the Belle Vue Hotel.