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I was called curly a few times when I lived in California. One of the blokes in the mining team I worked in down under called me "chromedome". The rest just called me "Pommy". We had a Deputy who went under the name "Whizzer" He whizzed here and there, always panicking. A miner we called flip top, never stopped yacking. An elec engineer called "Marmite" after his Yorkshire accent of saying mah mate. A chargehand during my apprenticeship who got called "Bunker Bill" because he spent all shift at the inbye bunker. "Plonk" one of the surface electricians, he was doing routine maintenance

Been a fair few years since I've been that way Den. The workings stopped just short of the old sewage works, probably because it was protected, likewise, there is a block around where the first Clifton Bridge plus the power lines were, around the railway bridge over the Trent near the Toll Bridge and a few other areas shown that were protected. Even Wollaton had to adopt different measures to mine under the University..

Big difference though Stan, opal mines are very shallow, UK coal mines are very deep, full of water and would cost a fortune in electricity to pump out, ventilate and maintain a winding system. You'd also be under mines regulations so therefore would have to have a minimum Class 3 certificate of competancy to occupy one. And they are bloody cold unless you set up house way inbye!

I wouldn't be surprised if large parts of the south western areas of West Bridgeford are now getting damage from the old workings from Clifton, including parts of Wilford too.

Clifton didn't hit sandstone Den, it was above the deep hard seam, but we never hit it. Now Hucknall had a sandstone intrusion on one of it's last faces. The Stonehead and South Main Returns went through sandstone Den, 1in4 and 1in 6 slopes down to the deep soft seam. No, to the south west and west, workings were getting close to the bunter, but not to hit, but because of water problems. It would have still been above us, but very wet conditions. Hucknall Colliery never went under the town Den. Hucknall number 1 pit in it's hay day went under houses around it, but had to stay clear of the

Nothing paranoid about buying a house Den, then several years down the road, big cracks start appearing. Best know before you buy a house whether there was any mining done beneath it. Clifton took four seams in total , amounting to around 16 feet of mineral extracted, that equates to around three feet of subsidence Den! Your safe though, Clifton only got as far as the sewage works and stopped. I was once told to look at the left side of the road on Clifton side of the bridge from the upper deck of a bus when i was going that way. you could see the outline where a face had gone years back!!

Parts of West Bridgeford were mined by Clifton Colliery Tony as were parts of Mapperly via the Gedling Colliery. Don't know if anyone went under Carlton though. Bingham's clear, seams below there are too close to the Bunter, so neither Clifton, nor Cotgrave took any coal from that area. Again, do your homework, all abandonment plans can be viewed at the Coal Authority in Berry Hill. As of West Bridgeford, I can let you know how far Clifton went under there as I have the abandonment plans for that pit.

Times change, don't they! When I left the UK in 1979 for Tassie, I took a big drop in pay, but I was a lot better off money wise! Things were half the price in Oz, even grog!

I think I started at under two quid a week at 15. I recall when I came out of my time, my top line was 18 quid a week, that included shift allowance, face allowance, dirt money, grease money and water allowance for working in wet conditions, That was September 1968 at Cotgrave Colliery. I left to work for J Jones Rewinds for a 40 hour week at 18 quid a week day shifts! It was a couple of years before I made that magic 1000 pounds per year!

I don't remember the first one I went in. Last work day before Christmas, the blokes I was working with went down Old Basford for a few and snook me into a dark corner of the pub. No way could I have past for 18...

It is Shrove Tuesday, isn't that this month sometime???

Both BBC America and BBC Canada show the same things over and over, but BBC Canada is the better of the two with more variety of programming. I have well over 400 channels of movies, news, weather, "locals", Discovery, Travel, Science, History etc etc.. Could be as high as 600 counting Nimiq 1 satellite. Not counted them yet. I didn't get to watch Robin Hood though, maybe next time.

The Original Toll Bridge Twenty-two years after Sutton wrote those lines, an 'upstart' toll bridge opened in Wilford ending 400 hundred years of ferry crossings at Wilford. The ferry made its last voyage across the Trent on the18th of September, 1864 although the Wilford Toll Bridge was not opened until the 16th of June, 1870. During the period in between, a temporary wooden bridge for foot traffic was erected. Wilford Toll Bridge took much longer to build than expected as first work began in 1863! It was built by the popular last Baronet of Clifton, Sir Robert Clifton. The bridge was bu

You suffered Caz! My Dad suffered real bad with a "slipped disc" (prolapsed) He just layed on a hard surface, much as I do when my back troubles me. Chiropractice, hope thats how it'sspelled, was outlawed for many years in the UK. I don't know when it was legitamised, but I know the medical mainstream frowned on it as voodoo magice for years.

OK, just thought you'd used your real name as your username. In my class when I first started with the NCB in the early 60's was a Henshaw, he had signed on at Gedling Colliery.

I think the Toll bridge was closed to traffic a lot earlier than that Den, sometime in the early to mid 60's. I think light vehicles like cars and motor cycles were allowed across when my parents moved us to Briar Street around 1960ish, and I believe the council condemned it for any traffic a couple of years later. I know when I was at Clifton Colliery, traffic wasn't allowed across, and the pit closed in 68.

You any relation to Trevor Shaw, the late Bill and Tommy Shaw's Den?? Welcome to the site.

Chris!! Your Mum into porn!! I'm shocked.. I think you mean Pawn t'old luv..

Better yet Den, electronic chip implant! They are already in the process of brainwashing us into believing it will benefit us. "If we have an accident, it will carry all your medical history, your home phone number so we can contact your family, your health insurance information so we can bill you etc etc" Yeh right, and it can be used to make sure your not where your not supposes to be! Believe it or not, volunteers have already had this chip implanted under their skin!! How long before "they" mandate we all have to have them for our own good??

It was called Bells Katy, bought stationary from there myself years back!

We as licensed hams are having problems with all these new cell phone laws coming into effect in various states and cities over here. Hams come under federal law as we are licensed by them. At the moment I have no radio in my truck, but have had a dual band rig in the past. Some states and cities allow the police excess powers of confiscation, which in the case of a licensed ham radio is in violation of federal law. Causes all sorts of hassles..

Whoops, red faced, missed the gone bit! No they are historic buildings..

And don't forget the odd old pram with a mate dressed up as Guy Fawkes in it while out collecting for pennies!

Won't be long before you have checkpoints and some official saying "Papers please" Signs of Nazi Germany or the old USSR!

St Mary's Church on High Pavement, and don't forget the Castle and Wollaton Hall!