ValuerJim

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  2. Platform tickets and trainspotting

    in General Chat about Nottingham

    Posted

    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.

  5. Best Children's TV Of The Decade (1960s)

    in 60's Nottingham

    Posted

    '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?

  6. Best Children's TV Of The Decade (1960s)

    in 60's Nottingham

    Posted

    Can I inquire to what the problem is.???? I got a report, I can't see what's wrong, is a post missing?

    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?

  11. School uniforms and colours

    in All other Nottingham Schools Discussions

    Posted

    I think all this made me determined to be an individual as opposed to a member of a team and, although I was pretty anti-social to start with, Manning persuaded me that I needed to be more introverted than ever and just ignore the lot of em! They didn't like it but I went my own sweet way and have done so ever since. The only opinion I take any notice of is my own.

    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.

  12. Chris Evans

    in General Chat about Nottingham

    Posted

    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.

  13. Poetry

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

    Posted

    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 ball

    I'd find it underneath the wall.

    And so I did. I chipped it low

    And thinned it past the pin

    And to and fro, and to and fro

    I tried to get in in

    Until, intoning oaths obscene

    I holed it out in seventeen

    Ah! Seaweed smells from sandy caves

    They really get me down;

    In-coming tides, Atlantic waves

    I wish that I could drown

    And Sloane Street voices in the air

    And black retrievers everywhere

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  14. Train Tunnel ?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    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?

  18. Train Tunnel ?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

    Posted

    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.

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  19. 1970- A Turning Point.

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    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.

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