ValuerJim

Anyone remember Haywoods butchers on Highbury Road, opposite the Highbury flea pit? Sausage rolls to die for!

On the point of fares, we are flying from Southampton early August. The best price I could find for 2 advance tickets, with two senior railcards, from Manchester to Southampton, change at Birmingham, was something like £125.00. I booked two tickets via Euston/Waterloo for £35.00. The journey takes two hours longer, one of which is between the London stations. I got the return tickets at the same price.

Thanks, Mr Imp. Was I right about Mr Quelch, and was he played by Eric Chitty? I could Google it but this is more exciting! That'll give you an idea of the sort of life I lead

Can you remember Bunter's schoolmates? There was Nugent, Ram Jam something or other, Mauleverer? (not sure about him), Mr Quelch. That's my lot.

'Regarding editing. Your post was correctly edited by a moderator, as is the policy here in the case of inflammatory material. The fact that another member responded bears evidence to that. His post was also deleted, but I have received no complaints from him. Topic moderation is pretty standard on all forums. The moderator edited you post, and did not delete in total, as I had laid down re such posts.' Could be that some are too easily inflamed? Might I suggest that if a post is edited - ie altered - by the mod, for whatever reason, it is shown as having been edited?

My original post at #5 included something along the lines of 'the disastrous outcome of the EU referendum', as a poke at the Admin decision to impose a complete ban on any comment on that subject. In view of the three or four week bombardment of Brexit propaganda we have had to endure, this comes across as a bit rich, don't you think? It also begs the question how can it be possible for admin to edit posts on this site?

If you object to posts just delete them, don't bloody edit them! I dare say this one won't last too long either.

Bilko. I married Joan. The Lone Ranger. Cisco Kid. Range Rider. Champion the Wonder Horse. Hopalong Cassidy. The Groves. The Appleyards. Railway Roundabout. Animal Magic. Billy Bunter.

Thanks, Cliff. One to me!

What's the name of the street running off Friar Lane, centre left in the photo? My wife reckons Mount Street, where the bus station was.

My wife was at Manning 1957-62. She can't remember the maroon and white striped blouse; her school photograph has them all in grey blouses, apart from the prefects who wore white ones. She also reckons that to save time changing a lot of the girls wore two pairs of knickers, the grey ones over their whites. I must say I can't remember that detail.

Vanessa Feltz, Jonathan Ross, Robbie Savage, Alan Carr, and the bloke who introduces the snooker players on BBC. Oh, and John Humphries, but only on the radio. And Melvyn Bragg, and the woman with short curly hair and glasses who is often on Question Time and never short of an opinion.

John Betjeman was an Honorary Member at St Enodoc golf club, just across from Padstow, and is buried in the Churchyard by the course. He died in 1984, and at the centenary of the club in 1990, a fellow member penned this parody of Seaside Golf: How low it flew, how left it flew It hit the dry stone wall And plunging, disappeared from view A shining brand new ball I'd hit the damn thing on the head It made me wish that I were dead And up the fairway, steep and long I mourned my gloomy plight; I played an iron sure and strong, A fraction to the right I knew that when I reached my b

Quite right Mr Imp. 967 yds long. My recollection of the services from my trainspotting days has Nottingham to Skegness trains bypassing Grantham, with the odd Grantham to Skegness dmu leaving from the bay platform at the north end of the up platform and via the, since lifted, link at Barkston. I guess it made more sense for the services to go direct by reversing at Grantham, but this may have been after my time. Incidentally, aren't locomotive names and numbers useful as passwords?

That's right, since the chord was put in. I assumed Catfan was asking about the pre-chord situation.

ChrisB. Catfan is travelling from Skeggy, not to Skeggy.

My pleasure. I could, of course, be completely wrong, and there are several posters who may put me right.

Probably Gonerby tunnel, on the Grantham side of Allerton Junction, where the Grantham and Skegness lines from Nottingham diverged or, in your direction of travel, via Grantham, converged. So it's after Grantham, not before.

My background and formative years were conventional and relatively uneventful. Dad always in work, and mum at home to look after me and my sisters. Lived in the same house from 6 months old until I left in 1967 to seek my fortune; still seeking it. One primary school, one grammar school, a year in work then to uni for three years, then back to work and still working at 70. My mates and I occasionally discuss the most momentous events in our lifetimes, and leaving personal and family, I keep coming back to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

What's the problem with Windows 10 anyway? I've been running it since its inception and I've no complaints.

If all that fails, you could try Chaucer Street.

Phew! so I'm not losing it. Thanks Fly. I don't get down to Bulwell since mum died, but I guess I'll get in another visit for old time's sake. I'll check it out.

I'm sure I've seen a photograph in a railway book of the back garden of one of the bungalows on the old Bulwell Common site full of railway memorabilia - station signs, totems, etc. Is it still there or have I dreamt it?

Can't remember the last record I bought. Do people still buy records?

How anyone can object to paying £2.80 a week for the world's best television service is beyond me.