Stuart.C
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ROG 1 appears to be for sale at the moment if you want to fulfill your aspirations,
Just £83798 (inc vat, hence strange figure)
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Fear not Beekay, work is due to start next year,,
However I'm not convinced that the longest bench in the U.K is going to be such a good idea.
It'll be perfect for cyclists, both pedal and electric, scooterists, skateboarders, skaters, freerunners to do stunts on and off and come nightfall a good place for some of the homeless to sleep on.
It may also prove to be a good place for drug dealing etc.
And if there's any room left maybe a few people could actually sit on it.
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Don't know which one the picture is of,
from here, 3rd page,, https://ourtheatreroyal.org/s/default/item/856
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34 minutes ago, letsavagoo said:
I don’t know how well this closure was know but I heard staff selling tickets on the premise that ‘you can come back any time for a year’.Pretty disgusted to be honest.
Liquidation isn't normally announced in advance, hence people turning up for work to find they're locked out.
I worked for a company that went into liquidation, we were given 2 hrs notice to get home in the company vans / cars before the insurance ran out and the liquidators took over.
I was nearly 3hrs from home..
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http://tundria.com/trams/GBR/Nottingham-1927.php
From link above, 1927 routes after extn of route 9 to Wollaton Pk Gates.
Does look like it's the Derby Road gates, bottom left of picture.
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There's couple of engines associated with Ragsdale of Retford, neither with Bruce or Doug.David and Mandy or James??
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Boot opened 12th May 1972, but possibly without use of the internal entrance.
Jessops 8th November 1972, but maybe after the Centre had opened.
Victoria Market 21st July 1972 but maybe after the main doors of the Centre opened.
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Watched the Central Tv piece on Vic Centre's "50th Birthday" (including clock) yesterday.
Apparently no-one at Vic Centre knew exactly what day the Centre opened to the public for the first time, so 9th November has been set as the Official Vic Centre birthday.
I'm sure if they'd put out a call to the general public a few people would have come forward naming the exact day that they were the first through the doors.
Even if it was a "Soft" opening , no ceremony and ribbon cutting, just open the doors and let people work out it's opened then I'm sure someone would have remembered and might even have photos.
And I'm sure Boots and John Lewis would have records of the date in their archives.
The Official opening by Geoffrey Rippon was 16th March 1973, but they're always later.
However Central said it was the Duchess of Kent who opened it, but her visit was to officially commemrate the start of work on 14 October 1969.
Nice piece about the clock and it's revival.
5 minutes, total, piece on the Centre of which 35seconds featured our local celebrity.
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Jill Sparrow;
My all time favourites were Milky Bar and Caramac. Not sure they still make them. I rarely eat choccies.
Caramac is still available, been in constant production since 1959 apparently.
Sold in Sainsbury Asda etc.
I had some (multipack) recently for the first time for many years.
I'd mentioned them to my nephew and he turned up with some, they didn't last long..
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To The Engineer;
It seems that West Bridgford Wire have renamed you as "Former Engineer".
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The DVLA website has plenty of infomation confirming that you can drive.
If your Doctor says O.K then it won't be a problem for your Insurance Co. as you meet the requiremenst DVLA set to continue driving.
You don't even have to inform the Insurance co.
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22 Union Rd (The Factory) appears to be a large unit to the rear, may or may not have been in the 60's
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I was in Cheshire. 62 to 67 and also remember Miss Coulson.
I hadn't realised till years after leaving that the Houses were in alphabetical order clockwise looking from the steps, either that or I'd forgotten.
I don't remember Makarenko, but after Googling it would make some sense.
Gladys AYLWARD
Sue RYDER and Leonard CHESHIRE
PANDIT Nehru
( )? ROOSEVELT
(Anton)? MAKARENKO
Albert SCHWEITZER
Anton Semenovich Makarenko, a Ukrainian and Soviet educator, social worker and writer, became the most influential educational theorist in the Soviet Union.
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It could have been C-T.
As it was then and is still now, the section of Hucknall Rd just after the junction heading towards Hucknall, is narrow and squashed between the railway and the row of houses and there wasn't much spare land in front of Basford Hospital.
So instead of widening the bridge on hucknall road and flattening the houses, they may have planned to go around the back and to the rear of the hospital.
The problem when the built the railway was most of the roads were single lane tracks or footpaths, so the railway only built narrow bridges.
Most were widened later, presumably paid for by the City Corporation not Railway.
It's a lot cheaper to build a new bridge with a new road over than it is to widen one and keep traffic flowing over it
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As C-T, I think the planners had a lot of land to play with and possibly had a guideline in the Nottm Corporation Architects office maybe along the lines of , If a new estate road serves over xxx houses then it has to be a certain corridor / road width, for the pleasing effect and possible expansion.
Looking at the map below, the Bulwell end does sort of line up with Highbury Estate.
If it had maybe intended to go that route, although it looks a mess crossing 3 rail lines it's not quite as complicated as it seems as one rail line is below the road level, one is above the road level then where Brooklyn Road is now could have been bridged slightly North of that location.
The Hucknall Rd end points to Bagthorpe which they may have thought would be gone in the future and been another housing estate.
But who knows what was in the head of the Architects at that time.
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I bought my first property, new build 2 bed semi bungalow in Kirkby in 1972 for £2250.
Couldn't afford the optional central heating for £150 extra or the optional garage put those in myself later.
3 Bed detatched 60's bungalows, with heating, in Arnold were £3000 at the time, couldn't afford those either.
Couldn't afford anything to play records on either.
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Griffins Head (Papplewick) is still going, though no longer Home Ales as they've gone.
It's a busy pub with regular various car meets in the field at the rearAnd comedians / singers etc inside.
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You don't need sources, it's public knowledge.
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I had mine last week and when I asked about waiting they said don't go out and jump in your car and drive immediately.
Wasn't a problem as I had a 10 minute walk from Bulwell Riverside Centre to back of Wilkos car park, made it there O.K so got in and drove home.
The only effect I had was a slightly tender jab site on my arm the next day.
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1973 Pearts, from Picture Nottm
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First photo of the final resting place, no credit shown but came from;
https://www.facebook.com/TodayInEnglishHistory/
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The King George V1 vault was built for 3 monarchs and their partners.
It's said that King George didn't want to be buried with the rest of the previous Monarchs
Requested and paid for by QE2
King George VI
QE2
KIng Charles III (or a.n.other if Charles didn't make it)
Princess Margaret was cremated as there was no room for her otherwise in the vault.
Just to note, the cost of QE2's funeral is split (unkown cost as yet, between UK Gov and the Royal family)
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Greyhound Stadium. late 70's
in St Anns, Sneinton & Colwick
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Similar view today.
The old photo is White City Greyhound Track, closed down in 1970.
The new track within Nottm Racecourse opened in 1980,
I went to the new track once as I had friends who ran dogs, didn't bet, didn't loose..