Deepdene Boy

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  1. 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 60s. Happy days.

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  2. 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".

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  3. 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.)

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  4. 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.

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  5. 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. 

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