Oztalgian
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6 hours ago, Dick said:
The White Post Cafe
As said earlier in this thread it was the Robin Hood Café, had many a coffee in there.
The White Post Inn, on the southern side of the A614 roundabout where the Farnsfield to Rainworth Rd crosses it, was a very upmarket place to eat in the 60's and way beyond my means.
Any one on here remember the El Rico opposite the Forest Folk in Blidworth, another hang out for motorcyclists.
Welcome Dick, Where are you in Sydney? Soon be able to have an antipodean meeting.
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31 minutes ago, IAN123. said:
probably a company now long gone
Bought my first car from them in 1970? when they had a garage on Sutton Road not far from Kings Mill Hospital
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2 hours ago, IAN123. said:
Kirkby..indeed Nevilles of Lindleys lane must take a bow for inventing the tilting cab.
I never knew that, as I often say you learn something new every day.
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Didn't Gash's buses to Newark leave from Huntingdon St?
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13 hours ago, Martin Lock said:
Blue 3 wheel disable cars.
6 minutes ago, Compo said:If you were disabled, and lucky enough, you were offered an ice blue single seater that though loved in many quarters, was frequently ridiculed.
Remember seeing these around the touchlines and behind the goal lines at many football grounds in the 60's and 70's
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Saw these guys at one of the college do's in the early 70's Turn the sound up to the max.
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Here is a (poor quality) image of a Home Brewery truck (photo from brewery history.com a wiki site)
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A similar shot from a lower angle, mid sixties (photo Nottingham Post)
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My kind of truck
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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
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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.
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4 minutes ago, IAN123. said:
Correct Oz...did my A, levels here- under the supervision of Mr.Lemaitre.
Thanks Ian, I too had Pierre Lemaitre for social sciences, don't know why we did that as we were doing engineering?
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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.
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9 hours ago, IAN123. said:
That Berry Hill Rd.i see?
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.
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14 hours ago, IAN123. said:
Circus is coming to town
May 1968?
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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.
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5 minutes ago, DJ360 said:
If not a Lander's bakery,
Landers Bakery was at Mansfield Woodhouse (Photos from ourmansfieldandarea.org)
Van from 1963 and Bakery in 1981
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I am sure Ian will remember this one.
11 Queen Street?
(image from ourmansfieldandarea.org.uk)
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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.
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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.
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10 minutes ago, Rob.L said:
It was both of them, as Ford were quite pushy about getting their cars on TV. Hence the Sweeney had Granadas and the Professionals had Escort RS and Capri.
Unlike British Leyland, who apparently refused to supply Minis to the Italian Job film makers.
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?
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2 hours ago, IAN123. said:
I have been recording Van Der Valk
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.
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8 hours ago, radfordred said:
Chesterfield's Saltergate is now a Barrett housing estate.
Saltergate sounds so much better than Proact Stadium
Proact sounds like something blokes take for waterworks problems
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On 5/10/2019 at 11:15 PM, Beekay said:
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
Oldest Football Club.
in NOTTINGHAM FOREST
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There were/are some claims that it was Stoke City but these have been refuted.
Imagine that, Nottingham had the two oldest league teams last year and I hope it will next year.
It certainly kills off the old trivia question, "which to EFL club grounds are the closest?" Apparently it is now Liverpool and Everton whose grounds are 1400 yards apart
In Scotland it is Dundee and Dundee United whose grounds are only 350 yards apart?