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  6. Why Did You Decide To Live Overseas?

    in Our Caz's Nottingham Ex-Pats Forum

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    Been past where Caz lives many times going from NSW into Victoria, can look a bit brown during drought years though, but most of the time nice area.

    Droughts where I live are scarce, green all the time. Summers can be a bit harsh with the high humidity and high temps, but spring and autumn are fantastic!

    Three drawbacks to where I live, poor shopping, high summer humidity and the thunderstorms can get real severe and can spawn a tornado.

    I can live with those, I did live several years in California and did experience a few earthquakes, plus tornados are found everywhere on this continent.

  7. Why Did You Decide To Live Overseas?

    in Our Caz's Nottingham Ex-Pats Forum

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    No it's a cousin Caz, I think I gave you their website just in case I didn't here it is

    <http://www.omeoregion.com.au/winery/>

    I live in the mountains surrounded by Black Walnut trees, Hickory trees, flowering dogwoods, which are native to this area, loads of blackberries! AND the rivers are full of trout and catfish :P

    Nearest large twon is Thayer with about 2200 population, and nearest town to me at ten miles away is Alton about 700 population.

    I am close to the Mark Twain National Park, one mile away! Loads of spring fed rivers, all springs in the Ozarks and pretty close to the Missouri country and western capital, of Branson.

    The Ozarks Mountains are believed to be the oldest mountain range in the US, made up of hundreds of feet deep limestone, eroded down to their present height of just a few thousand feet above sea level.

    The water is sparkling clear from 500 feet below our feet and pumped to the surface by our own pump.....Now this IS country living :P:P

    John

  17. Corner Shops!

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    Just checked Cali, made a mistake, he used to live in Roseville, now he lives in Citrus Heights, not far away though....Tiara Way.

    He's divorced too, though he should be a Dad by now, got to call him and find out if his ex girlfriend gave birth yet. No other kids, so he doesn't have any at school.

  22. Corner Shops!

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    No, just got bored with the politics and climate Cali...

    We lived just around the corner from you then for a few years in Foothill Farms, on Lancelot Drive close to Diablo and just about two hundred yards from Roseville Road. My son lives in Roseville now.

    We moved up to Mt Aukum in the foothills and lived there for six years overlooking the Sacramento Valley, what wonderful views we had!

    John

  23. Corner Shops!

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    How did this innocent discussion go from the corner shops to disgusting insects and vermin?!!! :blink:

    This one's for the girls, do any of you remember a dress shop on Parliament street named Anne Brook? My mom worked there in the 50's. She told me she got the job there just so she'd have a nice wardrobe for when she moved to the states! :rolleyes:

    Isn't that just like a woman, more concerned about what to wear than anything else! :P

    You never answered the other persons question Cali, are you still in the States.

    I'm down in southern Missouri.

  25. Pits Around Nottingham.

    in 60's Nottingham

    Posted

    Funny I was gonna post a thread on Pits. Thanks

    Anyone got an image of the old Clifton Colliery? I can remeber it being there when

    I came to Nottingham in 63

    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 years of life at the present rates of extraction plus a conveyor drift to the surface and modernisation of the screen/washery.

    Problem was, Cotgrave had a manpower problem, and Clifton was old. I often wonder how many stayed at Cotgrave after I left, I know of a couple who didn't stay there long.

    A couple of the blokes I worked with, who had worked at Radford until it closed then went to Wollaton and then on to Clifton after Wollaton closed, all said, wait until they put a new electric crane in the electrical workshop, then you know when they are going to close the pit!!!! How bloody true it was, we had a new crane, then not long after, they closed us!

    John

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