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The houses bottom right were prefabs originally. Headstocks pub bottom left. Phoenix Park the grassy area at top of picture.

DJ, Todays headline appears to be that Angela Raynor is now also being investigated re whether she correctly gave her main residence address for the electoral register.

Park Row / Derby Rd junction, past and present. And they'll about the scrap the island and make it a junction, or may have already started.

Yes Jill. B&P were no 48 to 60, that's from Derby St to the Strathdon, all the block in the below link. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.955151,-1.1579491,3a,90y,40.4h,99.46t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTT8VRgknJEtQNWRkZqSIcw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

This is what happened to Clarendon, no longer fit for purpose, too expensive to heat and to maintain. So replaced with a new building to be used as a school. Clarendon moved to a new site in Broad Marsh as part of a merger of most of the Nottingham and surrounds Colleges, now all called Nottingham College.

Just been reading Bluecoat history, think it was written a while ago,, The Blue Coat School This was founded in 1706, but the present building, which stands at the foot of the High Pavement, was erected in 1723, on ground given by Mr Wm. Thorpe, a benevolent attorney. It contains a large school room, and a suite of apartments for the residence of the master, who has 100 guineas a year, and he is allowed six tons of coals annually for the use of the school. Two statues, in niches at the front of the building, represent a boy and a girl in their school costume. The charit

Archway Trust, who own / run or whatever, Bluecoat have been given a short lease on the old People's College building on Maid Marian Way for temporary use for their 6th form. The space that frees up at Bluecoat is being used for start up pupils for the new Free Secondary school being built on the old Clarendon site, should be finished this year. When the new Clarendon (not called that) building is open, start up pupils will move and Bluecoat get their 6th form space back. Whether Archway will run the Free School I know not. Edit,, yes they will be, to be calle

Update. B&M have now taken the old Bulwell Wilko and are due to open in June this year. Presumably the small B&M opposite will close.

For someone with a Frozen pension, it wouldn't apply. Cut and pasted from Commons Library,, The government is legally required to increase the basic and new State Pension each year at least in line with average earnings. The 'triple lock' is a commitment, beyond this legal requirement, to increase State Pensions by whichever is highest of average earnings growth, CPI inflation, or 2.5%.

Page 7 on this link sort of expains the Frozen situation. http://frozenbritishpensions.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2016-Feb-ICBP-NPC-Pamphlet.pdf

Panic over,, All affected shops are back online and trading.

Apparently the born after 6th April 1951 scheme was brought in to make it simpler to calculate, but on average make it so that the new scheme doesn't make anyone better off than they would have been in the old scheme. But as is usual it's not as simple as black and white and the Petitioners, just as Politicians do, have chosen to cherry pick to suit their needs. They've only taken the amount paid out in the old scheme verses the new scheme without taking into account anything else. Not everyone will get the full amount, £221 ish, in 2024, just as not everyone gets the

Side by side, House and Pub, Overlaid

Found the below after searching, on KEY. AERO and from Railsroadsrunways blog,

Dixon and Parker was the school outfitters.

This is what the Commissioners will be doing, (from Nottm City Council website) The Government has announced that Commissioners are to be appointed for Nottingham City Council. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has confirmed that the Secretary of State, after considering representations and all other developments since his ‘minded to’ proposals, has decided to appoint Commissioners for the council. The Lead Commissioner for Nottingham will be Tony McArdle OBE who was previously Lead Commissioner at the former Northamptonshire County Council

The boundaries are also regularly changed in the U.K to keep the number of registered voters per ward as equal as possible. I'm in Nottingham North which is now changing to Nottm North and Kimberley as the numbers in Nottm North have dropped below the minimum. Will it make a difference and get Labour out who have been in seemingly for ever, not a chance. If 43% got the Conservtives in and 43% got Labour in, then even if 100% voted the outcome would still be the same.

I was aware of talk of proposals for the East Midlands amalgamation and now assume that I must have thought that others, not the residents would be making the decision. I must have been asleep between November 2022 and Jan 2023 as I don't remember any mention or any contact by anyone or by letter of any link to the consultation website, which I've just found. Obviously the Have your say section has now been disabled / removed. https://www.eastmidlandsdevolution.co.uk/ I wonder if the result had gone against, the 4 authorities would have suddenly started pushing f

The old Central Police Station and Fire station are NOT being demolished. It's been mis reported somewhere and picked up by others. The Grade 2 listing remains on both parts, as it still does on the Guildhall. The City council have had to reduce the sale price to Miller Birch for the whole site as development of the Fire / Police Station area will be more expensive as it will have to take account of the Listing. Presumably it will still be for students but with far fewer units. Development of the Guildhall Hotel with the additional tower block behind it stands as was pre

Sytners old place on Huntingdon St, without a doubt. Trumans just off to the left.

When I originally viewed DJ's response it went down and out the box through the bottom lines of the page and into the beyond. The strange thing was it let me scroll down through it all to the end. I'm on a P.C, I don't know if it would have allowed that on a tablet.

I'm sorry to have to report that I have now been in another McD, Castle Marina, with a former work colleague who was visiting the area for a meeting, fortunately only for Tea / Coffee. There was very little choice in the area, we would have gone into Sainsburys Cafe but along with the majority of their other Cafes around the country it's been closed. Pizza Hut was the next choice but they hadn't opened at the time we were there, 10.30am.

After years of streamlining the fronts of cars and making them more pedestrian safe in the event of contact, including shock absorbing bonnets with explosive lifters, greater clearance under the bonnet to allow it to collapse etc, the trend now is the style and size of vehicle above, 4x4 style, which I believe, like vans and lorries are allowed to be less pedestrian friendly. Get hit by the thing above and you'll flattened back onto the road and run over, and squahed, instead of being safely lifted onto the bonnet.

The Range bought the Wilko brand name and website etc and will be selling Wilko branded goods along with their own in Range stores. They may open up some dedicated Wilko Brand shops.