Ayupmeducks
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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 internet and in the yellow pages. They keep ALL mining abandonement plans for every mine in the UK, all open for public perusal.
It's a wonder the whole of Nottinghamsire isn't lower by about twelve feet or so!
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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..
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We have some real big flies around here in summer Roger, I think they are called deer flies, they'd make miniature bombers..
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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...
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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!
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oo-er, wouldn't it be funny if we knew each other! I must have worked there around 66-67, first I was on the desk as you came in the clubhouse, then I got the barmaid job. The lady who was in charge of the bar was called Connie, blonde, middle aged. We used to have some great parties in that bar, always with a theme. Quite a few tramp's suppers, where they put sawdust down on the carpet, and we all sat on orange crates and had fish and chips out the paper. Another party was roaring twenties, and also a cowboys and indians party. We always dressed the part. I met my husband there, he was in a bowling team called The Skol Five. I worked mid week and weekends, so most likely served you with your drinks.
It certainly would Katy, I'll bet my old boots you served me a few times over the weekends though.
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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.
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I'm sure this happens to everyone. You hear a certain song from way back when, and you are immediately transported to a place in time. For me I have two songs
Del Shannon's Runaway. I'm sitting on the top stair in my friend's house across the road on Amesbury Circus, listening to her brand new Dansette record player, playing the very first record she got.
The Beach Boy's Good Vibrations. I'm 19 yrs old or thereabouts, serving behind the bar at the clubhouse in the bowling alley on Barker Gate. This was my part time job other than my day job. This record played on the jukebox over and over.
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.
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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!
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Gee, that takes me back Katy!
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Probably a Beachboy's LP, not sure now.
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A small trolling motor would propel it safely.
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no one has posted in my topic have ya fall out with me....
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.
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Well I've seen it all, an echo on a forum..
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Dinner, egg, bacon, sausage, chips and tomatoes with dry bread to dip in the tomato juice.
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That was what we had for Sunday tea Katy!
Worrabaht narna sandwiches??
Or condensed milk sandwiches?
Wheatabix buttered and sugared?
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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!
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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..
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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..
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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.
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That was from the proweb site looking towards Clifton Colliery from Colliery Road.
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You'd love Sydney Den, it's like a sauna in the summer months, hot and sweaty. But come winter it's great! Mind you, Darling harbour would be your favourite spot, brew pubs by the dozen!
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Huntingdon St was two over to the right, Mansfield road to the left, I forget what the one on the top of the tunnel was.
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The wife and I used to have lunch at Touch of Britain in Sacramento California, we would have fish, chips and mushy peas.
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First Record Bought.
in Nick Palmer's Nottstalgia General Music Chat.
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Didn't Roger Whittaker make a record of "Dirty Old Town"??