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Looking at those photographs and others makes me wonder - Is it me or was Nottingham city centre a much more interesting cityscape than the ambiguous dross it is now?
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Actually Dave Pickfords have been around since the 17th century...
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Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
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Time now 00:55 and yes it's soooo sloooow. All other sites seem fine.
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If only Raleigh management hadn't been so hide bound and stuck in the '40s/'50s, they might have kept up with the times instead of holding on to outmoded hierarchies and practices.
Although I've been a union member all my working life I have to say they didn't help and also contributed to the decline.
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I went to the Lord Mayors ball one year. I was amazed there isn't a proper bar in there and drinks were served from trestle tables.
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Although I never worked for Raleigh I did go the factory every day as a contractor. The was the press shop, massive presses stamping out pistons for Lockheed and Girling disc brakes. The moped assembly shop, the Sturmey Archer shop., the chroming shop where I believe they were the biggest users of chrome in the UK. They were also the largest users of cyanide for hardening steel. The waste cyanide was taken to Portishead docks near Bristol in metal barrels, loaded onto the deck of a ship and dumped over board mid Atlantic! Try that today..
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On Triumph road there was a little corner café we used regularly, Alan Sillitoes mam worked there.
An amusing sight was the knocking off grand prix. At knock off time all the workers gathered at the gates held back by a security guard. Five o'clock he stood aside and a flood of humanity charged out like their backsides were on fire.
In the mid '60s they bought out a company, Cox safety seats of Watford, they were the must have seat for any serious sports car enthusiast. Lotus fitted them as standard and the seat slide mechanisms went to every car manufacturer in the UK. Due to that I went to every one of them except Aston Martin. Even Rolls Royce used them.
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All other sites were fine last night 15th but this site was taking ages to swap pages. This would be around midnight or so.
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Reading this:-
file:///C:/Users/Jim/Downloads/Bat_Box_Information_Pack.pdf
It seems that if the entrance is vertical, from below, they are self cleaning. If the entrance is horizontal, midway up the box then they do need cleaning.
Re the jobs worth crew I have some experience with a grade 2 listed house in Bulcote.
Cannot install central heating because it will dry the building fabric out too quickly.
Cannot patch plaster unless using materials that match the original 17th century recipe
Cannot replace window frames unless they are the same design and construction.
Cannot fit modern interior doors...
The list just goes on and on...
This was back in the '60s so I don't if the rules have been relaxed by now but at the it was a nightmare and resulted in selling it, just too much aggravation.
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I think he's talking out of his rear end. The RSPB have Bat box plans for DIYers or sell them ready made if you don't want to build one.
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I have loads and loads of will power - I just refuse to give in to it..
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Please stop, please please.. all this biking is tiring me out!
I'm so exhausted just thinking about it I'm off for a lie down...
Good photos though...
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Radfordred I sincerely hope you're joking, if not then my next wish would be that the next car you do it to is an unmarked police car. Such driving is stupidly dangerous.
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Hi Guys. This topic is like well cool innit? I mean like I said to me friend when he turned round n said 'Whats happenin' n I like said 'We is talkin about people what don't talk proper ok' n he said 'it's cos they don't like learn stuff, you know what I mean like when they is in school n stuff innit'. I turned round n said 'it's like amazin they don't learn you stuff like when they's supposed to innit'. When I did me exams I've like totally owned it guy enni. It 's marked D right? but that's good innit?
My mate don't go for all that stuff you know what I mean Say's it's like booshwah or summat n playing inter the capitalist system what wants to like crush the spirit of the workers n I turned round n said' but like you don't got a job n he said 'I know it's like n amazin way to fight the system inni.
He don't do this stuff like blue sky n says it's like undertakers what think about boxes n all that innit.
Have a nice day..
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1 hour ago, philmayfield said:
Sherwood Restorations sold one recently for - be prepared to weep - £36,995!
How to ruin somebodies day in one easy lesson.............
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I weep when I think of my Triumph TR3 that I sold for £40. They fetch well over £20k now.
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Useless bit of trivia and totally off topic..
One of the Imp variants was made in Paisley (Glasgow) but the body shell made in Coventry. The transporters were Commer two stroke artics and one of them holds the record for a speeding truck on the M6. The police cars of the day were Standard Vanguards who it was reported could not keep up with him so they timed him between two bridges.
Edit held the record, I don't know if it still stands but it was pre 70 limit.
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Lizzie may have something and I alluded to it before. Mrs B is eleven years my junior so I'm at home alone for the next six years at least. As I said previously it may get better when we can 'do stuff' together.
Retirement when you are on your own isnot so good.
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We didn't have sex Ed at school. What females looked like wasn't much of a mystery to me with two younger sisters. Imagine my surprise therefore when friends showed me a copy of 'Health & Efficiency', girls bits disappeared when they grew up!
It was common knowledge in the playground that a baby grew in your mams tummy but opinion was split 50/50 how it got out. Some said that was what the belly button is for and some were sure it was an operation, that's why your mam went to hospital. The knowledge of how it got in there came along quite a bit after.
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I have friends who like me are retired and claim there are not enough hours in the day. Fine, good for them, until you look a little closer. What takes me and hour is taking them most of a morning. In other words they have slowed down so much that to achieve what most people do they need twice as long.
Met an ex colleague in the supermarket, I needed a couple of light bulbs, he went for bread and milk. I tagged along chatting, as you do, but we are now trolling up and down every damn aisle in the place - why? All told we were forty minutes before we went through the check out. I could have done it in less than ten.
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8 hours ago, plantfit said:
Sounds fantastic Albert,now you are giving me some idea's for my impending retirement (maybe earlier than I think) as I said in an earlier post somewhere I wasn't looking forward to retirement having no hobbies or real friend as such but you have given me hope,thanks for that
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I know exactly how you feel. I hated the thought of retirement, one day you're a working man and the next you're an OAP.
Retirement is the single most boring existence you can think of.
The age thing came just right for me, I refused to retire at sixty five but at sixty seven voluntary redundancy was on the table and they made me an offer I simply could not refuse other wise I'd still be there.
Try fishing they said - nope I think it's cruel. Try Gardening - Can't stand it. Go walking - are you kidding me? Golf - now you are definitely having a laugh.
Tried a gym, oh dear. Set of wallys strutting round preening and puffing out their chest like a Charles Atlas wanna but never will be.
Part time job sir? OK what do you have. I have a BA and a BSc and they want me to collect trolleys from Tesco car park - I think not. Note to employers, our brains still function even after retirement.
I fly a little Cessna and I go clay pigeon shooting but these are not things that will occupy you all day every day. At present I'm doing an advanced motoring course but again it's not an every day thing.
My fully emancipated other half still has six years to go so things may improve when we can 'do stuff' together but my fear is that six years from now I will be 78 and may not be able to do 'stuff'.
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If I remember correctly the imp engine was single OHC and it's true the head gaskets were made from chewing gum. the clutch was operated by a carbon type thrust bearing that needed changing with monotonous regularity. The drive shaft couplings were 'rubber doughnut' design and they too didn't last all that long. Changing them was a pain until you learned the trick of using jubilee clips and then they could be swapped in 20 minutes.. The heater was fed by pipes that ran front to back inside the sills and when filling with water needed the front of the car jacking up or it air locked and thus no heat reached the matrix.
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I attended Farnborough on the first day it opened and Fairham on its first day. I left in 1960 though so not there at the time you're talking about. I was in Kenyon house.
A few of the teachers names:
Doc Chapman - French
Mr Burns - aka six foot of misery - Maths
Sid Bolton - PE
Mr Wallace - English
Mr Dawkins - RE
Hinds rings a bell but don't know his subject
Thom - Head Teacher
We had a geography teacher I think was called Bradshaw. Absolutely potty about Canada. In all the time I was there we never discussed any other nation that I can recall. 'Listen to this boys, Woooo wooooo. That's a recording of a train going across the great plains'.' Wooo woooo that's the sound of it coming back.' Riveting stuff don't you think?
I can't remember his name but the metalwork teacher hated me and I hated him. We had to make a coat hook. Start with a mild steel plate about 2" square and file until it was a perfect 90 degrees on all corners before brazing a hook to it. He made me file that damn thing for a whole term until it was eventually a fraction over one inch square and I never did get it right.
In my junior school I can remember a teacher My Keyes. He had a false leg as a result of being wounded in the war (RAF). Even at that tender age we knew how to manipulated him. Wait for an opening and then ask 'was it the same during the war sir'? and that was it for the rest of the lesson.
My sisters went to Charnwood.
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I have been in lots of the caves around the centre, they were favourite places to stick electrical sub stations, The weirdest thing I've ever seen down there is under York house where radio Nottingham used to be. Dr Who Cybermen suits. On TV you can't really tell but all they are is a flimsy helmet, a couple of vacuum cleaner hoses and a dark blue boiler suit. What they were doing down there I have no idea but there was a fair bit of studio stuff as well.
I've never heard of your 'Chickleumphants'. Err if they can't be seen how would you know?
Things that pee you off...
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Wasn't there a bit of a toodoo at one time about the amount paid to Terry Wogan for Red Nose day? In fact he was the only celeb paid, but the fee was quite small..... £1300 an hour!