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Jill Sparrow you have made my day, do you know how many years, no decades since I have been referred to as young Trogg and from a lady ten years my junior, you have a fan forever.

Jill Sparrow I have just read your previous comments, will you please stop talking common sense , you are now classed as a trouble maker and you will be put on the list. If you carry on as you are people might start thinking for themselves, that will never do. Corporations have to make rubbish for the masses to eat to make a profit, they don't want to waste money on education , heavens forbid the masses might start thinking, how then can we get them to fight wars we start ,so we can sell weapons to make a profit. You said you might be cynical, well I admit I am, and I fear for the future of m

DJ360 I found your post of June 8 very interesting as it brought back many memories, but, there is always a but, it ends with " to be continued....". Would you please find the time to continue as it will stir some more memories in this old mind of mine, it would be very much appreciated.

Here is another of Bulwell Common for you Ben, this one is a lot earlier than the previous one so you wont remember it like this, At the bottom left is the bridge linking Hucknall road and St Albans Road then the common and the vast expanses of Bulwell and Bulwell Hall Estate in the back, also the fields where Bestwood Estate was built, what stands out is the railway lines that shaped the area. The common does not look that big , but as young kids it took a while to walk from one end to the other, maybe we were enjoying ourselves too much.

Here is a photo of the play ground for Bestwood Estate Bulwell Common ,it also shows Bulwell Common Station and part of Bulwell, I am sure some of you can remember playing in this area. Date about 1951.

Catfan should remember this City transport depot.

I do have an original VHS copy of The Ragmans Daughter if anyone wants to borrow it and copy it to DVD.

In the Nottingham live today there is an article "how the shops on Mansfield road have changed over the years" with several photos. Here is the link to it https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/history/how-shops-nottinghams-mansfield-road-1639526

Have to agree with you Jill walking along the boulevard was a joy with the trees , the forest and pleasant houses was very pleasant, especially before the volume of traffic nowadays.

Ben it was number 28 , I only caught it 5 days a week for more years than I like to recall, and Ben what was so special about the one living two doors from the terminus , what about all the rest living in that area weren't they special as well.

The last thing I would do is to upset you Jill, but the good memories and friendships you made at that academy are something to be cherished. Ps it years since I been called young. lol

RR finally found what number 50 was, The Towers, I don't think you should publish you experiences in there.

Sorry RR I have only just learnt how to post photos, don't confuse me trying to make them larger, small steps at a time for me. They are on todays post site.

Here is a link to the paper Nottingham live on Gregory Boulevard over the years with several photos , I thought it easier to put the link rather than individual photos as the written info is important as well. It may be a certain young lady will be most interested as there is a reference to a delightful Academy for young Ladies is mentioned. https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/history/looking-back-early-days-gregory-1632039

I found this in Nottingham live (evening post) I thought it might interest some of you as you may have used them at one time.

Hucknall Top pit The best way for me to describe the location is leave Hucknall on Watnall road , just before you get to the bypass on the left at the end of the old houses the pit land started there, a mini industrial estate is now there. It then continued up on that side across the bypass and the petrol station and ended on a footpath that is rarely used now, the other side of the footpath is a house that is set back from the road . I believe the house was at sometime belonged to the pit. The pit grounds stretched back towards Bulwell Hall Park ending again at a footpath which follows a stre

Jonab, Top Pit as you know it is referred to a number 1 Pit which was on Watnall Road. Bottom Pit is number 2 Pit on Portland road.

Here is a shot of the depot with a city transport bus parked , It is as you said on Portland road just by the old entrance to No 2 pit.

You never forget old Bestwood training.

Another of the Adelphi area.

another of Bulwell, KFC is now on this site most of us remember it as the Adelphi.

another attempt to post a photo this should be Chambers the butchers and also Pascoes which was mentioned earlier in this thread. .

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists a great book wrote over a 100 years ago, a must read book if only to understand how some people react and behave, times may change but behaviour remains the same.

I prefer the now photograph it looks a lot more inviting and pleasant , the only downside is the employment that's gone with those buildings.

You cant beat a bottle of good malt and I think it is good where children go out of their way acknowledge their fathers and especially their mothers on their special day. As for tat that is in the eye of the beholder , its the thought that counts.