Oztalgian
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Just got back from visiting family interstate and find that we have had a planned interruption to our internet connection and that the so called "smart" TV's upon turning on decided to do a full scan of all free to air digital channels (47 found). I have just spent the last 2 hours getting rid of all the useless shopping, marketing, lifestyle and foreign language broadcast stations on both our TV's.
Why can't the plonkers who program televisions and associated "boxes" use the opt-in methodology instead of pushing all this dross and then us having to waste our time opting out.
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StephenFord and Chulla
Thanks for the information. Yes, a bright metal circular thing with a grill. I can see how the heater would work from the engine cooling water on the MGO buses but how did it work on a trolley bus? Was it like a single bar electric fire or something similar?
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#26 Merthyr Imp #27 MargieH
Yes the reason that we used to stop was to find the horse shoes. I think there were three sets and as a kid it was an amazing distance between take off and landing.
The other stop we used to make was the Boston Stump and for some reason I remember my dad telling me that there was 365 steps to the top.
Can't remember seeing any notices about mines or barbed wire entanglements on the way to the coast in the late fifties.
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#27 Blondie
Learned to swim at Hucknall Baths on weekly sports mornings from junior school.
Never went to Bulwell Lido but regularly went to Papplewick and Calverton lidos and I agree with Annesleyred 1865 Papplewick was always freezing.
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Apart from sneaking a swig from jugs of Shipstones that my granddad used to send be to the off licence for, ugh.
My first real pint was Mansfield Bitter as a 15 year old whilst wagging school and playing snooker one lunchtime at the local Miners Welfare. I was caught by the headmaster who asked "What are you doing here?" to which I stupidly replied "Playing Snooker". If you think that I got the cane for this you would be wrong as I respectfully suggested to the headmaster that the school council might like to know where he spent his lunch hours.
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#130
Come on Chulla even you would not call bawdy rugby songs poetry, but they are much more fun than the poetry I learned at school.
Whilst we are on the subject here are some others that I remember from my rugby playing past
If I were the marrying kind
The sexual life of the camel
Swing low sweet chariot
Eskimo Nell
Ivan Scavinsky Scavar
My god how the money rolls in
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#2 Catfan
One hundred and forty five pound fifty, bl**dy hell that's three hundred and ten Aussie dollars.
Thankfully we don't pay a licence fee here and it appears from comments that your programs are as bad as ours, endless "reality tv" shows, certainly not my reality. Mindless American crime and violence and incessant station promos on our ABC (BBC)
Recent additions to the tv menu here are a channel devoted to food, one of the first programs was about eating bulls testicles and penises, what a load of bollo**s. Another one is a competition about BBQueing food and not a beer in sight reality tv my a**e.
There are some quality programs, usually from the Beeb.
Probably why my favourite tv channel is YouTube.
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Sorry Ian, the round thing was on the trolley bus, didn't sort my thoughts out before typing.
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The last verse of Cargoes by John Masefield
Dirty British coaster with a salt caked smokestack,
Butting through the Channel in the mad March days,
With a cargo of Tyne coal,
Road-rails, pig lead,
Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.
Sadly not many cargoes for the British coasters these days.
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When we first arrived "Down Under" forty years ago this week it was really strange walking round the shopping centres in shorts and a T shirt in a temperature of 100 deg listening to someone singing "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas".
Still not fully used to it after all this time but we do still have the traditional Christmas lunch with all the family. The seafood and steak - Surf and Turf BBQ is Christmas eve usually around the pool.
Over the last few years it has become a bit of a tradition to have Christmas in July when we have turkey and all the trimmings in the middle of our winter.
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A couple of questions.
As kids Mum and Dad used to take us into Nottingham on the B8 or Trent bus to Huntingdon Street then a walk to Slab Square (why was it called that) and then on the trolley bus to the Trent Embankment for the fair or a cruise on the river. I seem to remember when you got on the lower deck at the front in the middle on the wall behind the driver was a large round "thing". Anyone have any idea what it was?
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The greengrocer that came round our village had one of those BOAC observation coaches like this
http://www.old-bus-photos.co.uk/?cat=226
The inside was fitted out with racks to hold the vegies and far more interesting for me as a youngster they also had confectionary etc.
They came round on Friday evening and the big decision was either a packet of KP salted peanuts or Smiths Crisps with the little blue bag of salt. Sometimes if you were lucky two bags of salt. We were then allowed to watch The Army Game whilst eating our treats. If I remember they cost tuppence.
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On a visit back to the UK about 8 years ago we did a nostalgic trip to Golden Sands, still a great beach then. If it was somewhere the sun shined and the sea was blue it would be a tourist hot spot.
When we were little and going to Skeggy for a day trip we used to pester my dad to go via Sleaford so we could stop at Byard's Leap and then on through Boston so we could see "the Stump". If dad wanted to go through Lincoln and Wragby then another must see was the windmill at Burgh le Marsh. Simple things that we did every time we made the trip that bring back memories sixty years later.
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For ever blowing bubbles
Just imagine what the conversation between Warren Mitchell, George Cole an Eric Sykes would be like!
Vale Warren Mitchell
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In doing some research on Nottinghamshire in recent days I accidentally found out that Nottinghamshire has four of the 53 "Thankful" or "Blessed" villages in England and Wales that did not lose any men in the Great War. They are Cromwell, Maplebeck, Wigsley and Wysall
Of the 53 Thankful villages there were 14 (doubly thankful) that did not lose any men in the second world war, unfortunately none are in Nottinghamshire.
I often look at the war memorials in the towns and villages and it is sad to see the names of so many that are from the same families. When you think of all the villages in Nottinghamshire and that they all were affected losing a member of the community in WW1 or WW2 it gives you a different perspective of lives lost.
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TBI #16
You were right there wasn't a walkway, in the late sixties and seventies we just walked along the old track bed.
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Hayley Turner from Southwell who is regarded by many as the greatest female jockey ever, is retiring after her 4 rides at Doncaster today. Her last appearance at Nottingham races was on Wednesday. http://bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-34732665
Hayley is fortunate in that she is retiring on her own terms and not through injury.
I wish her well in whatever she chooses to do in the future.
We have an involvement in racing and know the risks that all jockeys take whilst piloting their 500kg mounts at 60 kph in races or track work. Unfortunately here in Australia four female jockey's have lost their lives in the last 14 months and others have been seriously injured.
On a brighter note, on Tuesday last, Michelle Payne became the first female jockey to win Australia's race that stops a nation, The Melbourne Cup, riding Prince of Penzance a 100 to 1 outsider.
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Thanks Cliff Ton. What a great picture! I started watching the Forest in the late fifties and I cannot remember the kop being that high towards the east stand. Do any of the long time Forest fans know when it was changed or if it was before the mid seventies?
When we went by car to the match we parked near the Magpie, I was partial to a pint or two of Home Brewery 5 Star before walking across the Lady Bay bridge to the City Ground.
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Six degrees of Separation.
When we went to the Victorian snow country to see our grandchild shortly after he was born we stayed at a motel as there were many visitors and no room at the house. When I went to reception to check in and having said only a few words the owner of the motel said where abouts in Notts are you from? We spoke further and found out she came from the next village to where I came from and went to the same school. Different age group so we had never met.
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Did you know that Doh! was used by Peter Glaze in Crackerjack long before Homer Simpson.
It's Friday it's Five O Clock it's Crackerjack
Give the boy a cabbage
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Cliff Ton #25
Enjoyed those two photos of Alfreton Road in the sixties especially the second one showing the Mini Traveler with the roof rack, The Ford Consul Classic and the Triumph Herald Estate. Those cars would be worth a few bob today.
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That's the spirit. Keep laughing both of you.
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StephenFord #82
Thanks Stephen you have confirmed what I thought, really strange that I lived in the area for 25 years and had never heard it called Darcliff Crossroads. It shows you never stop learning. can collect my bet from my brother now.
iandawson #83
Yes Ian you could have got to Little Ricket Lane by bus you could have taken the B8 talked about in previous posts and got off at Larch Farm cross road and walked 250 yards along Kirkby road (B6020) in the direction of Kirkby. Alternatively you could have taken the Nottingham to Mansfield Trent service, can't remember the route number, one stop further toward Mansfield and got off at the junction of Ricket Lane, Little Ricket Lane and the main Nottingham to Mansfield Road (A60).
There are two local landmarks in the area, the table top tree is directly at the junction. Nearby is the Bessie Sheppard Stone, a memorial to a young girl from Papplewick who walked to Mansfield to find work and upon returning was brutally murdered by Charles Rotherham who was apprehended in part by trying to sell her shoes and umbrella in the 3 Crowns Inn at Redhill. Rotherham was subsequently found guilty and hung at a public execution in Nottingham. There are also several local stories of drivers on the A60 stopping to pick up a young girl who was walking along the road only to have her disappear.
I have just checked Google street view and the table top tree is still there.
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nonnaB and Fly2
Thank you I had completely forgotten about the Sawyers Arms. Went in there occasionally as well as the Brittania but used the Cricketers, the Chateau and the Hutt more often. You never know we may have crossed paths in the sixties.
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Today is the official first day of summer downunder and to celebrate our forecast temperatures over the weekend are 39degC (102F) and 40deg C (104F)