Ayupmeducks
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Newstead, where ROLF was tried out and proven to be a failure..LOL (Remotely Operated Longwall Face) Coal Board spent millions on that white elephant, made many companies pretty wealthy too!
We had a system installed at Angus Place Colliery in NSW that utilized operating a "block" of chocks, six in all, from one station along the face. The operator then only had to walk forward every six chocks and remain in a safe postion at all times. It was designed by a brilliant Australian electronics feller by the name of John Smith who lived in Wollongong. That technology was exported to the UK by it's Australian Dowty subsiduary.
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I'll have to scan it Mick, it shows Ballon Woods when it was a wood and not a housing estate!! The maps I have were made before Clifton Estate existed!! So thats pre 1950, although the workings are up todate as when they finished.
There is an old pit marked next to the old brick yard at Balloon Woods, but thats not the workings marked to the west of Wollatons.
I'd assume it was a colliery just over into Derbyshire?? Impossible to say without those abandonment maps.
I also have Cotgrave Colliery abandonment maps too, amazing how much they had extracted in the short life of the pit!
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Ayup Mick, I have coal authority "overlay maps" for Clifton Pit, ie the workings superimposed on surface maps. Both the Tupton and Deep Hard seams show Wollatons workings.
To the west and slightly north of Wollaton Park and north of Bramcote Moor are "old mine workings" Do any of the oldest maps around that area actually show any old collieries?? They weren't Wollatons as there are a line of boreholes, obviously driven for Wollatons safety, and Wollaton kept to the east of the boreholes.
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That leads to Market Square right? or my memory is fading!!
The bottom of Bottle Lane was Clumber Street Caz, the top I think was Low Pavement, Mick will correct me if I'm wrong.
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Frost at Bathurst? Yep.
We almost had frost in the West of Sydney last night.
Winter draws on.
I hate winter.!!!!!!
Baz
We had plenty of snow to the east too Baz, used to cost me a couple of sickies a year! Not that I minded it when I was on dogwatch, just a couple of nights snuggled up at side of missus instead of working..
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Snow at Hotham already Caz?? If my memory serves me right, we would be getting frosts at Bathurst by now, still pretty warm days though, but cold nights.
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the thing is, i still prefer a chicken for my xmas dinner to this day. something else about nottm talk is that when you were a kid it was always " tek over that car dad " never " over take that car " as it should have been. i still tell the kids now that men are called mesters never master.
I left Nottm around 1975 Rob, I went to work in what was then Cleveland, a part of what Ted Heaths lot created from North Yorks, I understand it's back as North Yorks.
I went to work at the brand new Boulby Mine near Staithes. One of the other electricians was from a south Yorks city, can't recall which one now, but he always said mester! So it wasn't peculiar to us Nottm folks, t'old lad.
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we used to have a capon at xmas cause it was bigger and everything had salt on it. anyone remember getting sent to the chippie with a pudding basin to get filled with chips and peas on top. i did`nt mind going cause i always asked for some fishbits
"Me Mam 'ud do that Rob"
Jeeze thats 'reet" we alus 'ad chicken at Xmas too, it were a luxury in the 50's early 60's.
Me Dad was a lorry driver and when I were off school on hols, he'd tek us wi 'im! There was this 'ere place in Brum that served chicken dinners most day 'o week, and if 'e were on the Brummie run, 'ed tek us in there at snap time and gerrus a chicken dinner!
Now imagine that lot in the old Nottm dialect that we all spoke, every word is true though.
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Don't know, we'll have to try it out when we get there! But if I know Dan, he'll order it just to keep that label!!
Not a patch on you Elaine
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Thats my server Elaine, it's so slow it timed out on me and I went back and then forward to try and repost the message. I'll be glad when we have DSL available locally...
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went to bluebell hill juniors then on to manvers on carlton road
I too was drag...err edumakated at Blue Bell Hill Rob, spent my formative years at the Infants and Junior schools, 1952 to 63, then on to Huntigdon Sec school.
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Robin, didn't you used to have a site called something like Calverton a few years back?? Say about three or four years ago?
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Not being an afficiado of Indian movies Caz, can't say I've heard of him.
Have you been over the hill yet to Mt Markey Winery???
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Just shows the "Tripod" logo.
An old mate of mine who served his apprenticeship at the same time as myself came from Calverton and worked at the colliery.
We both started with the NCB about the same time, did our basic training and tech college at the same time.
At that time, during the 1960's, Calverton Colliery had a bright future, like Cotgrave and Bevercoates as being new collieries.
Sadly, all gone now, amazing though, most of the posters here can remember when you didn't have to travel too far to see the headstocks of a colliery around the city of Nottingham and it's shire.
Names that conjure up memories, Radford, Wollaton, Clifton, Gedling, Linby, Hucknall number 1 and 2, Cotgrave, Calverton Bestwood and Babbington made up the NCB number 6 area.
Then to the north was Newstead, Ollerton, Bevercoates, Pyehill, Silverhill, Bentinck, Sutton, Mansfield, and many more names that are all closed and filled in with a concrete cap over the shafts.
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Just googled the church, yep your right Den , late 50's, was around a fair while too. Loads of info on the subject out there..
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I too remember the church only just thou...B) Regarding when was it demolished that would be circa 1957/58
I thought it was later than that Den, I do recall there was a stink about it as the church had been there for a very long time, probably before the area was built up the way we knew it. The cemetary had to be relocated, every grave moved according to cannon law!
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Just to upset the cat lovers, we get feral cats around here, I use the lead poisoning method as it's environmentally friendly, a .22 round usually rids us of the problem.
IF city folks weren't so heartless as to dump their unwanted pets out here in the country, we wouldn't have this problem.
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Thanks ilko for that, i will have to make sure that i dispose of the remainder [rat poison] in a adult and caring way..sod this, how do you spell inviramental....
Environmental? Hows that old son;)
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I didn't know you were a patron of Colwick Hall Caz?
So thats what you lot do for entertainment while on night shift, eh Mick
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My family moved to St Anns when I was a few months old and I lived there until I was 23. Yes some of the houses would have been considered "slums" but we had community back then and we kids could play on the streets anywhere from Blue Bell Hill to Hungerhill Road.
We were lucky in that we had a bathroom, indoor loo and a garage.
I recall seeing a documentary about the old St Anns school a few years ago and the teachers were talking about how the kids were underprivileged etc.
All they did was knock down the old houses and put modern slums in their place IMHO.
When I say I was bought up in St Anns I get some comments based upon its current "reputation" but I am proud to have lived there even if my old street now looks like Beirut with boarded up windows and burnt out cars.
At least we did get a good education and taught to respect each other, something thats sadly lacking today with youngsters.
I'd bet if you bought all those oldies back today who had critisism about our generation, they'd think we were angels at side of todays lot!
Maybe it was the lack of television, computers and video games that made us what we are?
BUT, computers should have made todays kids far more literate than us baby boomers. Sadly they are not.
My Son's in his early 30's, he has hardly read a book in his life, thats his admission, sooner play computer games all of his spare time!!!!
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Is that a very young Dennis Weaver Rob??
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Looks like that old nag Lester Piggot used to ride
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I recall a similar scene where the church was being demolished, how long ago was that, can anyone recall??
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If you want one thats just like X-Tree Try Ztree Win
The only problem with traces Mick, is these days so many people who want to remain anon, use proxy servers. Quite a few of the folks I know who go "trolling" on forums use proxies...
Annesley-and-Newstead-Collieries 1921
in OLD MAPS OF NOTTINGHAM
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Just up the road from Linby, wasn't Newstead in the NCB number 4 area, North Notts anyone?