Oztalgian
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Great Post Stephen. Thank you.
I never realised how extensive the MGO routes were as until I got a car as never really travelled much by bus to the west of the city and into Derbyshire. Must have caught a blue bus though going to Hardwick hall and the fair but can't remember the details.
The routes of MDT caused me to remember days long gone of fishing on the Trent at Fiskerton and Averham via the 209, at Gunthorpe via the 210 and visiting relatives at Bilsthorpe on the 207
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This map shows the convoluted route of the B8 now the 141 and other routes around Nottinghamshire.
Wish we could find a similar one from the mid sixties
http://www.ournottinghamshire.org.uk/documents/Route_Map_Notts_History_By_Bus_map.pdf
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Any one on here with a mining heritage that went on their local "pit trip" which took almost the entire village to usually Skeg, Mablethorpe or occasionally Cleethorpes. Up at the crack of dawn, walk to the pit yard where the steam train had been marshalled or a bus to the local railway station and then off on the train to the seaside. Had vouchers for chips and pop on the train and more for rides at the amusement parks. Most kids fell asleep exhausted on the train on the way home. All paid for by the miners contributing a few bob each week out of their pay.
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#135 There is a picture of a red Midland General bus towards the bottom of this page.
There is also a picture of a combined Midland General and Mansfield District bus in black and cream livery
http://midlandgeneralomnibus.weebly.com/
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Winter warmers - A sort of early form of microwave great for almost "instant" baked potatoes and chestnuts.
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Merthyr Imp #131
Yes you are correct that was the story line. I also remember seeing the same in a film starring Harry H Corbett (Steptoe and Son), Diane Cilento (Sean Connery's first wife) and Michael Medwin (The Army Game) some time in the sixties. I particularly remember it as it was filmed in black and white.
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plantfit #165 So many memories in that one post I could have been in my Gran's kitchen too.
A few other things that I remember. The thick stone shelf in the pantry where you put the butter, marg, milk, cheese etc to keep them cool. The metal mesh meat safe that on hot days she would put a damp towel over to keep the meat cool, the fine mesh kept the flies and other creepy crawlies out too. Above all my Grandad used to keep the brown teapot with a cream circular line round the middle on the hob to keep it warm. It was so "stewed" at the end of the day that the spoon would stand up on its own.
Also nothing from the kitchen went to waste, bones were used to make stock, then along with vegetable scraps were fed to the chooks or pigs. We never went without fresh vegetables, seasonal of course, grown in the garden or the allotment. I have to admit that apples and pears were most often scrumped from local orchards.
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Alan Simpson, half of comedy writing legends Galton and Simpson has died.
This comedy duo brought us ground breaking comedy such as Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son
Who can forget this brilliant piece of writing from the blood donor sketch on Hancock's Half Hour 'A pint? Have you gone raving mad? I mean, I came here in all good faith, to help my country. I don't mind giving a reasonable amount, but a pint? Why. that's very nearly an armful.'
Alan Simpson RIP Thanks for the laughs
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On the old system there were 11 locks with a fall of 115 feet. There are still locks at the top before you can get on to the wheel.
The Anderton boat lift is well worth a look too. Originally using hydraulic pressure from the river and the canal, then changed to electric motors, pulleys and counterweights and now running on hydraulic oil filled rams lifts boats 50 feet between the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey canal.
Sorry can't help myself just love clever engineering from any era.
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The Falkirk Wheel, impressive piece of kit, I seem to remember that he of the coloured outfits Michael Portillo said that the system is so balanced that it takes very little power to run it. The late great Fred Dibnah also did a bit on it in one of his shows - heaps on YouTube.
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Wicksteed Park, now there is a memory, as a young'un I had heard that the local Sunday school yearly trip was to Wicksteed Park so I endured six weeks of Sunday school so I could go on the trip. The day dawned bright and sunny and we left our village on a blue Bedford OB bus operated by Butler Bros. of Kirkby in Ashfield and set off for Kettering. It seemed to be miles away in those days. My memories, like Benjamin are of the boating lake and the little steam train that went around the park. The mountain slides were the biggest I had seen, no elf and safety in those days, up the steps, down the slide or one of the supporting poles like a fireman. If you were really good shinning up the pole to get on the slide and often burning your a**e on the hot metal of the slide. Returned home around 8:00 pm exhausted but a very happy kid.
P.S. Never went to Sunday school again.
Does any one on here remember Drayton Manor Park in the late 50's very similar to Wicksteed?
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One of those voices once heard never forgotten
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'oh 'eck'
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I reckon a manual gearbox would almost be a special order for cars downunder these days. 90%+ of cars sold here are autos, on many models, manufacturers do not offer a manual option. More and more are CVT with simulated 6, 7, 8 or 9 ratios
Still always park with the wheels facing the kerb when parking on steepish hills, just a throwback from the old days and less reliable mechanicals.
I'm with Carni, - Mirror, Signal, Manoeuver, trouble is too many people thing the indicators are for decoration only and only to be used after drivers around you have worked out what you are doing.
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Wow Chulla, these cards have brought back so many memories. My Grandad used to smoke Craven A and had many sets of cigarette cards that somehow disappeared after his death.
The bicycle cards reminded me of the racing bike he had, it had wooden wheels, cane I think, he kept it in an old wooden shed in the garden that always smelled of creosote. One of those smells that immediately take you back to another time.
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Great Katy,
It looked so much better as a market place, now there is an idea to revitalise a boring and sterile area.
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Compo #3860
That picture would make a terrific jigsaw puzzle.
Are the cigarette ads deliberately blurred or is it condensation in the window?
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Thanks guys, I understand now, amazing what we learn on this site.
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Now I am even more confused!
On that basis would a train going from Sheffield to Birmingham be on the up line? Yet a train going from Sheffield to Derby be on the down line even though it is the same line?
No wonder we cannot get the trains to run on time if we don't know if they are going up or down!
I guess its a bit like the Interstate highway system in the USA where the road is identified by the general compass direction it takes. It took me a while when travelling between Detroit and Port Huron which is north east of Detroit to work out that I had to take the I94 East
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On the 18th January is the 40th anniversary of Australia's worst railway disaster when 83 people died and 210 were injured when a Sydney bound commuter train travelling on the up main line derailed and hit a bridge support at the Bold Street Bridge bringing the bridge down on the third and fourth carriages. It was one of the most significant events of this type of my early years in OZ
This has always puzzled me, how do you determine which is the up or down line? A google search was confusing and did not help.
I suppose that the concept of up or down varies on where you are at the time or where you are going to or from.
When going into Nottingham do you go down town or up to town?
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Stephen,
I can recall the blind layout that you mentioned on the old AEC buses and agree that it is the most logical but can't recall ever seeing it on a Lodekka but there again as you get older some memories dim.
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Isn't there also a bird called a Chat?
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Colly, Pianoman, Merthyr Imp,
Thanks for the information you all provide, along with the memories and the great photos, keep them coming.
I checked with an "anorak" mate of mine and both MDT and MGO had buses with the three blinds, one showing interim stops. So much for memory!
In the case of the MDT route 208 Mansfield to Newark showing Blidworth, Southwell and Upton. Apparently the MGO inspectors were sticklers for having the blinds set properly. I think the ones with the three blinds look more pleasing to the eye. The ones with just the route number and the destination look more austere and utilitarian.
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That does not look like a genuine Midland General Bus to me, as it does not have the 3rd blind that has interim stops, i.e. when bound for Nottingham the B8 blind would have shown Blidworth, Hucknall and Bestwood. This looks more a repainted Mansfield District Traction bus as shown below. Even the number plate series would fit.
Things you don't see anymore
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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I know modern cars are much more reliable but have just bought a new one and it does not even have a temperature gauge, just a tiny bar above the odometer figures. I would love to go back to the old days where you had some indication of a fault before it happened and not just a warning lamp and/or a limp home mode.