Ayupmeducks
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Did you know Den, the coldest recorded temperature in the lower 48 was recorded in California??? Most folk plump for North Dakota or Montana, but no, it was recorded in California.
When and where?
Somewhere near Immigrant Pass in the high Sierras on Interstate 80 Mick.. Lowest recorded temp in the lower 48.. Googgle it!
Most folk forget they have some high mountains in Northern California..
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So now Radfords back on the map again..
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We have had a load of cold air from Canada Den, it's them stupid Canadians, thought if they sent it all south that they'd have a warm winter...
Did you know Den, the coldest recorded temperature in the lower 48 was recorded in California??? Most folk plump for North Dakota or Montana, but no, it was recorded in California.
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Don't be dirty Mick...
Best comedy is the Blue Collar Comedy Show On the Road! Now there's no PC stuff with Jeff Foxworthy and Larry The Cable Guy!! Just good to honest down south hill billy humour!
Those guys bring tears to my eyes!
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You've never lived unless you've tasted a REAL ozzie meat pie form a small bakery/pie shop! Now thats summat I do miss from down under real bad!
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There used to be a small bakery that also made it's own meat pies at the bottom of George Street in Bathurst NSW. At lunchtime, there used to be queue's leading outside for workers buying their hot fresh meat pies! They were fantastic.
There also was a pie shop in Wollongong NSW, that sold delicious meat pies!
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But there's nowt like a fresh hot meat pie from a pie shop in Oz Caz!! That hot delicious gravy dribbling down yer chin and a coldun to wash it down!
Three course meal in Oz, meat pie and two cold tinnies!
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Remember when it was "six pennorth 'of chips, meat pie and mushy peas"?
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There used to be a chippy at the top of Arkwright Street in the late 60's somewhere near Boots Chemist shop, they used to sell superb chicken curry and chips! The Ex and myself used to drop by after kicking out time at the Sir Richard Arkwright pub.
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Yeh I saw you were getting a freezing winter Elaine, it's a balmy 28F here at the moment, big change from the 11F it was yesterday at this time.
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Well it is global warming though Den! Sure it's a load of BS about us mere humans causing it. One volcano blowing it's top causes more pollution in a mere few days than we as humans have produced in our time on Mother Earth.
One thing the government paid scientists who have a vested interest in looking after their highly paid jobs are not telling everyone, is, all the planets are getting hotter due to unexplainable solar activity.
There is also a source of cosmic acitivity hitting us from deep space, nobody knows where it's coming from! It could be the cause of our own suns unexplained extra solar acitvity.
BTW, it's friggin bitter here at the moment!!
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Check thgis vacuum tube amp out at $3590!!
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I didnt rate the Marantz System that my In laws had.
What about the Quad 303 and 404's?
The Marantz Gold Line, the tube set up was always rated as the finest designed and engineered sound system on the market Mick. Don't matter a toss these days to me as I have hearing damage from working near heavy machinery plus aging of my hearing, so I wouldn't be able to tell the difference anymore.
I used to be able to hear bats when others couldn't, that shows the highs I could hear years ago.
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I spent a year there when I worked for GT Ranby before I went to the Coal Board.
There used to be a lecturer who wrote everything down on the blackboard, and you had to copy it, or he'd dictate his lesson. Never taught us like any of the others..
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I always dreamed of having a Marantz, but alas they were way out of my price range. Then when I could afford one and purchased one in the late 80's, I found they were now made in Japan...
There is a company that sells origonal designed tube amplifiers complete with all the same old components Marantz used for a few thousand bucks a pop! They purchased the speaker transformers as surplus from the Marantz wharehouse.
At around $7000 each, I'm afraid I'll stay with my solid state 120 watts per channel Marantz.
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The only sound system we had back in those days Craig, was a steam radio!
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I checked on my maps Mick, Clifton did not work any seams beneath Attenborough. I'd say they are too close to the Sherwood sandstone around there.
They did work under parts of Beeston, nearly up to the sewage works in the deep hard seam, don't see any dates though! Probably the late 1800's early 1900's.
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Impossible Mick, you see when a pit closes and pumps are withdrawn, the mine starts filling with water. Eventually the water fills right up to the shaft concrete caps, then over the years the water deterierates the strata. What we call sterilizing the seams.
There is a website, I think it's part of the coal authorities, that show the water tables of Nottingham in association with the closed collieries. Clifton and Cotgrave are linked by water now, probably breached through the old workings, which got as far as around four hundred yards on the deep hard seam.
Of course Radford and Wollaton are common through the water and Gedling is on it's own.
The water from all these pits is now at the water table of the Sherwood Sandstone, which is worrying the authorities!!
Same in the north east around Durham, they now have a contaminated water table due to mine water rising to the table!
I wonder why Maggie's lot never thought about all this when they were getting savage with the industry??
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The Sherwood Sandstone, which used to be called the Bunter, is found all over Notts into Derby's and Lincs Mick.
No doubt there are coal seams under Attenborough, whether some have been worked I don't know.
Some seams are too close to the Sherwood Sandstone, and as you get to the south west, about the top end of Clifton Estate, the Deep hard seam gets pretty close and is unworkable any further westwards. Pity really, as it gets pretty thick that way! Over 5ft 6ins of recoverable coal.
That was about the farthest limits of Clifton Colliery.
There is a line drawn on the maps I have of exactly where this limit is, same line goes into Cotgraves old bounderies too, they couldn't work any closer.
The sandstone contains water at pressure, some of which is used by Nottingham for it's water supply, the artesian wells.
The water is what caused convergence of 10's and 12's faces at Clifton, in fact we had water so bad on 12's face, it was like working in a rain storm!
The old Beeston Boiler Company had bores down into this sandstone for it's water supply.
The castle and also St Mary's Church on High Pavement are built on the outcrops.
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Well, what me late Mam told me, we started out dahn Lenton, too close to the canal when I was toddling, so we moved to St Anns, spent up to my 14th year there then we moved dahn medders. Thats where we stayed until we were moved under demolition orders. Me and my first missus took the two kids up to Clifton, Farnborough Road opposite the Comp school. In fact, we were lucky, we had a bus stop right out front gate!
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Hi I didnt start at the Naafi until 1970 sorry but i dont recall the name.
Lynmee
She probably got married and moved on Lyn... Be nice to find out what happened to her and how her family are, I'd presume her Mum would be long gone now, but she had a Sister and Brother..
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I went out with a girl who worked at the NAAFI offices in Bottle Lane Lyn. Her name was Linda Kay, way back in 1966, she lived up Bestwood.
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I knew he was a gambler Roger, he even took a gamble sinking the pit that far south too!
He sunk the pit and worked outwards only to find the area was heavily faulted and he'd sunk the pit in what is known as a "bastard seam" ie, everywhere he went he hit sandstone.
His family had to borrow I believe 6 million pounds from a London Bank to drive the Stone Head Drift and South Main Returns through the Bunta Sandstones to reach the Deep Soft seam. After that all was plain sailing. BTW, the Stone Head drift was 3/4 mile long and ranged between 1:4 and 1:6 from pit bottom to over 2000 feet below the surface. I've walked that many an afternoon shift when the Cable belt was stood!
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I wasn't sure Katy, then that building was Ranby's old place where your hubby came up and through. I didn't know the staircase was open all the way down, when Ranby's were in there, myself and another apprentice started to go down the stairs, didn't have a torch or anything, and we could only get so far due to all the windows being bricked up. It was just dark and too dangerous to venture further.
Ranby's used to be on the ground floor, Ranby and Keys the next on down and Nottm Transformer the next one down still. If i recall there was a ladies fashion factory above us... Long time ago. We moved next door into the old BICC wharehouse, our stores was ground floor, next floor up was the offices and above that was Nottm Transformer. I think we left Ranby and Keys Rewinds where they were, can't remember. They were only a small outfit anyway.
WHY IS IT SO WARM
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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Huh, TV weather reporters messed that up!!! I googled and came up with Montana minus 69.7 at Rogers Pass..