Deepdene Boy

Sandra, yes you are right about Barbara, the doll would have come from Singapore, as her husband Ray was stationed there with the Fleet Air Arm and their family spent two or three years out there. I had forgotten all about Sooty.

Not a problem if you have nothing to hide

Three numbers on the lottery tonight, would normally be £30, but it was the final rollover draw and nobody had all six numbers, consequently the pot was cascaded down through the prize levels. Three numbers tonight = £153.00

Meeowed, too young to remember it, but the single deck trolleybus you refer to was a Glasgow Corporation Transport BUT RETB1, numbered TBS2 in the Glasgow fleet. It ran for NCT between 2nd & 18th February 1953

Sandra, didn't you have a younger sister, was it Diane. My Nan, Connie Tomlinson lived next door at 74, along with her son Geoff. Nan passed away on Valentine's day 1982 and Geoff moved up to a flat just off Stotfield Road, but he passed away on 6th October 1990. My Mum was June Tomlinson, I would have been four or five when you moved away and my brother Ian would have been just about a year old. We used to spend most Saturday's at Nan's. Dad worked for NCT at the time, he was still at Nilborough depot and I would often stand on Nan's gate looking over to see if he was driving on the 55s or 60

Rog,the 67 carried on up Green Lane as far as the junction with Manor Farm Road/Langstrath Road. The buses would pullover to the wrong side of Green Land and then under supervision of the conductor they would back into Manor Farm Road , before pulling back out on to Green Lane to wait time at the NCT clock. I can still recall the juddering sound that the drum brakes made when they were applied at the end of the reversing manoeuvre, caused by the shoes protesting about operating "against the grain".

Oz , I wouldn't be so sure, that's 7 points out of 9 against three of the top five in the last three games. A win at home to Newport County on Tuesday night would see the 'pies climb out of the bottom two.

Somebody call. WBUDC's last new vehicles were single deckers, three AEC Swifts numbered 43-45 (NAL 543-545F), which NCT took into their fleet as 704-706. Mick At least one if these was at Bulwell during your time there and was often used on the paddy.(Translation for non bus workers, the paddy was the staff bus that ran after normal services had finished to get bus workers back to their homes.)

Spot on foe me an' all

Pies beat Stags

Beating Everton 2-0 in a League Cup replay in 1975. The County Road stand was actually bouncing on its foundations that night. Losing to Everton in the 1984 FA Cup quarter final to an Andy Gray header that was no more than six inches off the ground. Easter Monday 1977, coming back from 2-0 down at Molyneux to draw 2-2 when we were chasing promotion, only to just miss out and seeing bloody Forest go up.

Seems to me , to be a massive over reaction to an innocuous comment.

There was a Foreboys on Southchurch Drive, Clifton as well.

I have just finished reading all four volumes of Steel Wheels and Rubber Tyres. The autobiography of Geoffrey Hilditch, a former municipal transport general manager. A cracking read for anybody with an interest in public transport.

Mess, the "funny" thing about last season's game and the last minute penalty, is that I know the referee, Andy Woolmer, very well. Indeed I have officiated with both him and his son at different times during my time as a referee.

Gordon Banks - GOAT. RIP

Mess, we are certainly due a win over the Stags,they seem to have the "eye" over us in recent meetings.

At last a glimmer of hope, (it is the the hope that kills, mind)

There was ever only going to be one winner. It was the same when Nottingham Omnibus tried to muscle in with their ragbag selection of secondhand Bristol VRs and Leyland Atlanteans. Nottingham folk had a great loyalty towards the "green and cream".

Not easy to tell from the photo. It is certainly "running in" to Parliament Street Depot having finished a 5A, looks more like Maid Marian Way, I think.

Yes, that's it

Mess, fingers crossed. I very rarely get to Meadow Lane as my Saturday afternoons are spent refereeing on the Northants Combination and the United Counties League.

A great loss. I am sure he will be missed by all Nottinghamians and Nottstalgians.

Den, there were a batch of six, numbered 395 - 400, all built to a height of 13'8" to get under the Wilford Lane GCR bridge. 395 ran for a couple of years as an overall advert for Big Chef, whilst 400 had a GB sticker in its rear window following a jaunt to the continent in 1972.

Rode on this many times on the 67