Stuart.C
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I've got a friend who was with BULB, he's been with a few others in the past, some of whom have folded.
He was transfered to BULB as his previous supplier folded on his first day with them.
He's all electric with storage heaters.
From the start BULB said they couldn't get readings from his Smart Meter and needed manual readings, he tried to get them but even with help from BULB couldn't.
BULB said they'd book a meter reader, no-one ever turned up in the 18 months he was with them.
He managed to get some readings but the bills were always high.
Prior to him quitting with BULB they sent a demand for over £2000 outstanding and after a lot of phonecalls and emails from them they discovered they could get a reading an revised the bill and sent a statement and a refund of nearly £2000 previously overpaid plus a small conpensation payment.
The problem was simple, when he was transferred to BULB they didn't get meter readings from the old supplier, they'd folded so wouldn't have sent them.
So with no readings they used a start reading of 00000, which meant he was paying again for all the energy he'd used since the Smart meter was originally fitted.
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Was The Larkins filmed in Kent?
Yes! Given the rural Kent backdrop was just as much a key part of the show as the Larkins themselves, the show could hardly neglect the Southern county.
However, the show did not reuse Buss Farm in Pluckley, which was of course the iconic home farm used in the original Darling Buds of May – instead the series was filmed on a different Kent farm, which has not been identified.
Production then moved to the surrounding areas of Kent for scenes that were not farm-related, including the villages of Underriver, Eynsford and West Peckham.
Filming received quite a bit of attention in Faversham, where the shops in the town’s Market Place were given a retro 1950s makeover, while Walsh was also spotted in costume at Walpole Bay Hotel in Broadstairs.
Executive producer Sophie Clarke-Jervoise said: “We wanted it to be in Kent because the novels are set in Kent. We wanted these lovely rolling hills, farms in the background, it’s just gorgeous, we’ve been so lucky.
She added: “We did look at other locations options but we just kept coming back to Kent because it has that authenticity of the novels.”
Star Bradley Walsh agreed, saying: “The joy of shooting here in Kent is the fact that this is where the books took place, so you get an infinity with it and you get a real feel for it. I think the farm we’re working on has a good couple of hundred, three hundred acres maybe, it’s beautiful.
“The interiors are the true inside of the farmhouse, it’s so lovely.”
However while filming did mostly take place in Kent, production did also occur in London and Surrey. Film crews spotted at Flanchford Farm in Reigate in April 2021 were widely thought to be for the Darling Buds of May reboot, while filming also took place at a nearby primary school in Betchworth.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/the-larkins-filming-locations/
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I remember the original with David Kossoff. (Larkins)
And watched the remake with David Jason. (Darling Buds of May)
Caught half of last nights and the Darling Buds of May was referenced, so Larkins / Darling Buds of May must go hand in hand.
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I'd seen the photos in the past but unsure where.
I Googled Players Sherwood rise and in one of the results spotted this text and clicked on the link;
There was another photo there which I've also seen before
Photo Credit : Stephen Mayes
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Same as above.
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Here's an advert relating to Wells Rd but I can't see any date on it or the PDF linked on the advert.
https://www.marriotts.net/property/details/the-wells-road
A bit of concrete should been enough to preserve the planning.
My Son owns a farm with planning for development of the outbuildings, all we had to do there, with agreement from the Planning Officer was to lift up the stone floor in one and remove the timber upper floor in another.
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This is it I believe, or rather bits of it.
2nd photo by Robert Lee, guessing the first one is as well.
(not from nottstalgia)
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I'm sure there's photos of it on here somewhere from a previous thread.
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On a plan attached to the planning application for the flats, the land shows as a Crane Depot from 1968.
On a 1978 plan it's just a Depot.
On a plan dated 1966 it appears to be the original garden? layout with no buildings shown.
Planning for the flats lapsed in 2020, unless someone has done some work to consider the development started.
The planned flats sit above a parking area.
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On the left looking down, from here;
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Looks like it was the garden for the house / shop on Woodborough Rd in 1938.
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I only ever remember it as a sunken car park with a modernish building on it in the 70's/ 80's.
May have been Don Greenwood Cardboard boxes, (same D.G as the founder of the Private Hire car company.)
Looks like Google managed to go in there by mistake;
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Lambley Lane has now re-opened , via a short section of the Gedling access road;
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That's the arguement they keep giving, to free up conventional houses for families.
An extract from the Planning statement from the larger of the 2 developments, on the old Post Office Parcel site;
There is an unequivocal need for purpose-built student accommodation in Nottingham Providing modern, high-quality PBSA on site will support the fulfilment of an identified capacity need, enhance student experience in the City, have wide reaching benefits for the community through the residency of students and free-up family housing elsewhere in the City, currently used as ‘Other Rented Accommodation’
for students.Nottingham has the 4th largest full-time student population in the UK outside of London, with just over 63,800 full-time students as at 2019/20. In the five years prior, the student population grew by over 23%, the highest rate of other comparable cities.
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Don't worry Mr Engineer, there's over 700 student flats being proposed at the bottom of St Ann's Well Road / Cowen St / Bath St / Brook St.
Plus hundreds more around the City.
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Proposals for the previously mentioned site.
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Showing video of empty shelves should be banned, or on a D Notice if they still exist, especially when they're currently showing the empty aisle in a Sainsburys from the start of Covid.
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I'm not against going to 100% vegetable food if that's what it has to be, but in all the shouting about it people are doing I've not seen any proposals, let alone realistic proposals as to where all these millions of tons of vegetables are going to be grown or however much it needs to be to feed 100% of the population.
A good proportion of farmland is too hilly to use or too wet or too dry or at risk of flooding.
What happens when we get hot summers or cold winters or wet either, as apparently that's what's coming.
Is the plan to concrete over existing level farmland and build massive sheds to grow it in?
I can see that annoying a few groups of people.
Where's all the energy coming from to heat and light them, we won't have any spare when all the cars, lorries trains, HGV's etc are electric.
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I remember someone at work in the 1980's convincing our Engineering Manager that as at the time we were working on newly installed computer controlled equipment buying us a Sinclair ZX81 computer would enhance our knowledge.
I'm not certain it did for all, that but what it did do was pass some of the time on the nightshift.
Thankyou Clive for producing the ZX81 (and all the other products he developed) and also the person who did the convincing.
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I predict there may be up to 55041 claims for a partial refund if the entrance fee is lowered.
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From the link below, it looks like some of the mens names were from Thomas Birkin's Son's.
Perhaps other names have a Lace connection.
http://www.nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/places/forestfields.htm
The naming of some of the streets showed clearly the influence of Thomas Isaac Birkin. His sons were Thomas Stanley (Stanley Road), Alexander Russell (Russell Road) and Richard Leslie (Leslie Road). A Wilfred Road, named after another son, Charles Wilfred, was intended but not built. Gladstone Street and Ewart Road may also have a Birkin connection as he was President of the Nottinghamshire Liberal Association and one of its principal subscribers. The first residents of the area were professional people and employers with a good number of lace occupations represented, including lace designers, salesmen and agents.
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From Traffweb the numbering looks like the houses are possibly addressed as Brightmoor Court or even Brightmoor St.
Bet it's fun for Couriers, no where to park and no certainty on what house / flat is where.
Post-persons won't have a problems tho.
And from Britain Above 1937, using that corner house as a reference it looks like no, 22 Quaser, formerly tyre sales may have been developed over the cellars of the remaining houses.
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This is a 1900's map overlayed with a modern map
Boon Question
in 90's Nottingham
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AS above post, in a showroom at 14.45