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Funny thing, if you read back through Nottinghams history, that area has always been prone to flooding. Some real nasty floods before any houses etc were built down there. Some of the problem in modern times probably comes from the weir.

I'm not old enough to remember that flood, it was the year I was born, but I do recall the year we moved down to the "medders" was when the Trent got pretty high and destroyed all the north side embankment. I remember going down to see how high the Trent was most days after school. What year was that?? 1960???

Seems strange, I wonder why the UK has such a problem with alcohol?? When I arrived on Australia's golden shores in 79, pubs were open much longer than UK's. All except Victoria's, they were closed all day in Victoria, beer, wines and spirits were far cheaper, and yet there was really no great problems with drink. Same here in the US, drinks are so much cheaper than the UK and there's hardly any problems. Uni students go wild at spring and summer breaks, other than that we don't hear of binge drinking. Could it be we have the 21 age limit in the US?? When I was in California, I could pick u

Didn't Roger Whittaker make a record of "Dirty Old Town"??

Tony, I was reading some info on another site this morning, down in Swansea, it's a pretty common occurance for holes to appear due to old shafts settling, some as deep as several hundred feet! Someone was saying it's pretty wise to check for old mining workings before buying a house, so like I posted earlier, check it out, the whole of the areas you mention are all old coal mining areas, ie Mansfield Colliery, Rainsworth Colliery, Bilsthorpe Colliery etc, dozens of holes under that way from way back! Berry Hill is the Coal Authority, you shouldn't have much trouble finding them both on the

I have to laugh at TV reporters sometimes, over here most hold Journalism degrees and I'd swear most get them out of Kellog Corn Flake packets..

We have some real big flies around here in summer Roger, I think they are called deer flies, they'd make miniature bombers..

I thought about that Alison, got tons of stuff lying around though and I hate spending when I can do it myself.. LOL. I'll try an equilizer first though, I'm sure the one I built a few years back has a preamp in it. God, this gerrin old screws the memory up...

I used to tape all my later LP's Alison, so all those around 20 years old have only been played a couple of times. The older ones will have "pops and clicks" on them, unavoidable. I have to build stereo preamp, or use a graphic equilizer as my turntable doesn't have enough output to drive the soundcard in my computer. I set everything up some moths back to make a start, and thats how far I progressed!

It certainly would Katy, I'll bet my old boots you served me a few times over the weekends though.

I aim to do that too, I bought Adobe Audition 1.5 to electronically clean my records up. I still have an extensive record collection with the usual clicks on them that I want to remove.

I'll bet we have met then Katy! I was a member of the bowling alley club for a long while! Several of us used to go bowling on Friday lunchtime, we were on nightshifts at Clifton pit, that would be around 1966 era, we would play dominos, drink Watney's Red Barrel and have a few of the bread rolls for our lunch. I also frequented the place of a weekend sometimes,Sat or Sun nights.

Well I'm on the next best thing Den, DSL, a lot faster than dial up! We have just added a router so we can use up to four computers on the internet at the same time. The wife works from home on some Sundays, so she can get her adds done and emailed in while I still play!

Gee, that takes me back Katy!

Probably a Beachboy's LP, not sure now.

A small trolling motor would propel it safely.

BTW Robin, your signatures wrong, Calverton's coal was power station coal, ie cut by shearer. All fines, very few lumps, so not fit for domestic open fires or stoves.

Well I've seen it all, an echo on a forum..

Dinner, egg, bacon, sausage, chips and tomatoes with dry bread to dip in the tomato juice.

That was what we had for Sunday tea Katy! Worrabaht narna sandwiches?? Or condensed milk sandwiches? Wheatabix buttered and sugared?

I'd have liked to live in Montana, but for two things, the winters too long and it's so cold up there in winter!

Bitterlings on Meadow Lane Katy? Wow the sugar plant on the Colwick Industrial Estate..Phewwwww, it was a sickly smell that one couldn't get out of clothes..

I remember seeing all those steam loco's waiting to go under the torch in the late 50's early 60's, what a sad site. I used to go past the old loco sheds almost everyday on Wilford Road..

The Cliftons were well aware of the Trent's tantrums, pit top and the boiler houses, winding engines and power house were about ten feet higher than the road outside, so the pit was safe from flooding. The power house was later converted to the electrical workshops when power was introduced from the grid.

That was from the proweb site looking towards Clifton Colliery from Colliery Road.