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The Ilkeston police station was build with Mr Blair's PFI as a cheap way of getting a new station. It's now rumoured the costs are making the pips squeak in the budget. I wonder if Carlton is/was the same, it's about the right era and if so selling it off was the only way to get out.

Or remind her of the ironing!...

I reckon there has been some skulduggery - he's giving them the dead eye from the look of it..

My careers advice - "Have you considered knitting?" The mental image that conjures up with a 14 yr old needs little explanation. Had he mentioned big machines...

ABBA - Tek yer teeth out n tell me what's wrong Chiquitita

Pride in your work (for me) took a huge hit through technology. What used to done through calculation, experience and negotiation is now done by pushing a button with certain criteria entered and a ready made list of materials. costings and timelines drops in your lap a minute later. From an employers point it's faster, cheaper and needs only a quite basic understanding. At the finish engineers were told 'no engineers are required, we only need technicians' the difference being the size of the salary. I was disgusted when they introduced an 80/20 rule. so long as 80% of the

I think they were afraid, quite rightly I would say, that some would start it with the chuck key still in it. Never seen it done but led to believe it can be a bit spectacular and quite damaging, specially to people.

Never got as far as that PF. All I has was a flat piece of mild steel. Didn't even get as far as making the hook. I really did spend the whole term filing just that one piece of metal' The lathes were as you say for decoration only, never saw one running all the time I was there.

The metalwork class (as it was called in my day), was I think, a Mr Mander (although the name Britten rings a bell). We disliked each other intensely. Take a two inch square of mild steel, file it till perfectly square and braze a hook on it, voila! a coat-hook. Wrong!. At least one corner was always out of square by a couple of thou and 'do it again'. A whole term doing nothing but file until it was about half its original size and never completed the project.

How come everyone remembers their teachers names? I went to five schools, the last being Fairham, did A level at evening classes, have attended two Universities and can recall maybe four names out of that lot - and that's on a good day!

Marcos! that's the name I was trying to think of!

Or Japan, India, Cyprus south Africa...

Nice pics but I note not one of them appear original. I always thought the idea of concours was as original as possible.

Quite poignant - and so very true..

Raises an interesting point. when is a stump big enough to be a post?

Dunno, we'll keep you posted...

Ask this guy, he's cool.. https://ibb.co/RgQbf9m

You're right they have one decent hill and what did they do with it? Built a bloody great church on top of it! Any bugger with any sense would have said "sod drragging all that stone up there, lets build it on the flat bit near the football pitch"...

Hill billys?? in Lincolnshire?? bit of an oxymoron I think..

I've been looking for pics of several places I can think of but finding them with permission is proving a tad frustrating..

They do but unless it's about turnips they don't understand..

Be careful though he may sell you a load of old sticks!

50%, close but no cigar this time sir.. PF has it right..

No idea how you get to giga status BK but keep going, persistence pays off...