Ayupmeducks

You never answered the other persons question Cali, are you still in the States. I'm down in southern Missouri.

Still preferred the family run corner shops though, long gone now...Anyone remember Annie Keelings beeroff on Briar Street?? And how come all the butchers were called Reg

I have come across loads of piccies of Clifton Mick. When I've loaded them back into the puter I can send you some if you want... I also have some very old ones dating back to when it first opened, a few underground, and some of the "old pit" before the baths were built in the 50's. I managed to get a bloke at Wollaton Hall to send me piccies he took for me of the old diarama they used to display of Clifton years back. What memories of wastage at Clifton! Thousands spent to start the roadway drivage from the tupton sean to the lower seam below tupton! What promises they gave us, another 50 y

Ayup Caz, Dennis, Mick and all..Been a while and I see the membership's grown since I was last here. Hey Caz, are you a member of FR's new chatroom?? If so did you ask Elvis about his chat site???? Just clutching at straws. Anyroads where did I settle, well first I went to Tassie, then Wollongong, then "over the hill" to Bathurst all in Oz. Then in 89 I brought my bride back to her home country, the USA. Lived in California for a number of years and been down here in Missouri, her home State, for over five years now....Gods own country! John in sunny cold windy southern Missouri......

Wow, some of them used to be bad, many a time busses stopped running and had to walk home from work! Also we had those thick fogs that hung around the Trent and other small rivers around the city. One night shift, several of our staff on their way to the pit got "stuck" on the traffic island at Dunkirk where the fire station used to be/still is?? They found the island and couldn't find their way to get off it !!! Took them a while to live that one down, I can tell you!

Do you realise there aren't many youngsters would know what a blackclock is or was these days, and it's mainly a Notts expression?? I know live in the cockroach capital of the world, southern Missouri, and we have the big American browns, plus our old black Nottinham favourite!! Just a little trivia....I found out recently doing a search that "Blackclock" came from a German word and spread through miners terms..... Still can't abide the littel critters...Yuckkkkkkkkkk

Bloody 'ell, gerrin away from subject a bit, I finks Dennis said he was an electrician , then you and me, a bloody nest of us!!! Could be shocking for the other members! John

:D Lot of them about in those days :D Remember Quintin Crisp B) Would it be one of these >>>> Cricketers rest Poets Corner The Rifleman The Duke of Newcastle Might have been the Rifleman......Only used to drop by the pubs in town on a pub crawl, so no idea about any of the barmen or maids Wasn't the pub on the corner of Kirke-White Street and London Road called the Duke of Newcastle???? I used to walk past both pubs everyday when I worked at J Jones rewinds on Daleside Road!! Picked my Daily Mirror and twenty fags up from Kens papershop opposite the school

Now here's a topic I think we can all appreciate :o When I lived down Kirke-White Street East, mine was the Sir Richard Arkwright, near the corner of Kirke-White Street and Arkwright Street. I also used to drink at the pub on Kirke-White Street between Ryehill Cottages and London Road, can't for the life of me remember what it was called. Sunk a few pints in the "Stute" too. TBI and also at the Cricket Grounds pub too. And lets not forget the Salutation where I once took my girlfriend who was a nurse at the City Hospital, only to be refused service for my girlfriend who was 20 yrs old, b

Should have heard what Dad said when I asked him if I could go down pit Mick!!! Gave me a good living and a training that was recognised around the world.....Most tradesmen from the old NCB were some of the best trained skilled men in the world!! The only thing about the NCB, it made us friggin lazy :o Will be checking domain names out today Mick!! John

I did my basic training up at the old no1 pit, surface, underground and basic workshop stuff for the first year and went to the college near the Linby turnoff. Sister lives in Huchnall, she used to live down the road from where the Linby pit once stood. After the first years basic stuff I went to Arnold and Carlton near Gedling Colliery. Closest I came to Hucknall no2 was the Miners Welfare, used to be a great place in the 60's! John

Alan "Archie" Andrews owns a three year old site called "The Miners Reunited" He's an ex pit fitter with his own IT business in New York State. Mines for information, history etc.... Mick, give me a run down on what your offering please, not interested in smilies and half of what is on the proboards site.. Email me mate.. John

Weren't you wearing your helmet??? Boulby Mine in North Yorks, the upcast shaft was pretty windy when we were descending. It had two 1350 horspower fans situated not far from pit bottom. In the main returns, one would get sandblasted with the force of the air! John

Thanks for the offer Mick, might take you up on it later. I served my electrical apprenticeship at Clifton and Cotgrave pits in the 1960's. John

No CB when I left the UK in 79 Mick, but I am a licensed ham, call is KM6MB, been licensed now about 13 years. Last time I was over in the UK I did look up a ham mate in Kirkby in Ashfield. John

I started a mining forum, if there are any old pit workers as members here its called Coalmine and the URL is http://coalmine.proboards23.com/ If you use an AOL email addy, I would suggest you get a Yahoo of MSN Hotmail account as for some reason AOL email subscribers have been having difficulty obtaining their passwords. John

Parts were filmed at the Castle, Old Radford and of course Raliegh Industries when my cousin worked there. Love to see the movie again, been years since I saw it. Didn't they have scenes at the Goose Fair on the Forest too?? John

My late Mother was, she worked on the "trackless's" as she used to call the trolley buses during the last years of the war. She used to say when a pole came off the overhead lines that she would refuse to put it back.She had a bad experience being elevated several feet off the ground and had to have the driver help her back down :D John

I'm not that old as to be the only one who recalls the corner shop, am I???? :o

Won't hold it agin yers Caz :D :D I'm 1947vintage BTW John

I've just set the map as my "wallpaper" on my desk top. Caz where was Ryehill Street, rings a bell but can't even find it on the map... I did live in Ryehill Cottages shortly after getting married the first time around..That was off Kirke White Street East, there was a bookies at the top of the Cottages and a pub around the corner towards London Road where a lot of lorry drivers used to go to from out of town. Before that I lived with Mum and Dad just round the corner on Kirked White Street, next door on the corner of the Cottages, lived an elderly bloke and his wife, she was a bit nutty!!!

When I first got licensed as a ham radio operator in 1991 I got involved in Packet Radio and set up a digipeater with mailbox for use by other hams, 28kbs if I recall All sent and received on the two metre band.(144mhz) Seems the internet has just about killed off packet radio on VHF now. John

Dint 'ave to go far to do shopping in the "old days" lol, nearly every corner had it's own grocery shop and just about every third corner was a beer off or green grocers! And worrabout the local butchers shops! I think every butcher must have been called Reg!! When me Mam managed the Lady Bay Cleaners on Alfred Street South near the corner of Blue Bell Hill Road, we live opposite Agars green grocers. Little did I know I'd be working with old Harold at Cotgrave pit where he was an electrician. I used to have a crush on his daughter Jennifer, often wondered how she went on.......Many years ha

"Err" can you remember in the early 50's after sugar rationing had ceased, me Mam would tek me all over looking for Fry's Crunchies. As soon as shops stocked up on 'em they'd sell out!! Then there were some confectionary that Lyons brought out, they were in about three different flavours, in the late 50's I don't recall the name of them, but they melted in your mouth, soft and in mint, strawberry and another flavour, something like large Bon Bons. For some reason they weren't on the market very long. John

There used to be a small bakery on Woodborough Road just around the corner from Huntingdon Street in the late 50's early 60's that had hot fresh bread. The owner was an Irishman and his missus. We used to spend out daily spending money on a laof of crust bread, or hot buttered mini Hovis's on the way to school!!! Hmmmmm I think it was called O'Shea's bakery, "bin" many years now! John