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  1. Johnny Preston ... a man with a very colourful lifestyle.
  2. I noticed that Nottingham Evening (sic) Post's website has now been be branded "Nottinghamshire Live". Of course there hasn't been anything evening about the Post for quite a few years (yesterday's news tomorrow) but it looks as though Mirror Group is going to put the poor, very much diminished thing out of its misery.
  3. It is now fifty years (01.04.68) since the abolition of Nottingham City Police . Any memories of Britain's "best" force?
  4. Under the management of Christopher Pole-Carew and David Teague the Evening Post was, at one time, considered a world leader in newspaper publication, with many awards for its innovations. It's sad to see the Nottingham Post dying before our very eyes. I doubt it will be around in another five years.
  5. Aah the No2, it was one of those oddity routes like the 8, 26 and 51that ran only once in a blue moon. If I remember correctly it was a weekdays only service leaving Goldsmith St at 8.20am for Waverley St, Mount Hooton, Gregory Boulevard, Hucknall Road and Valley Road. There was a return service in the afternoon at about 4pm.
  6. Will these be like NCT's small fleet of Ethanol powered buses? The moment the subsidies came to an end NCT ripped out the refueling equipment and converted the buses to diesel.
  7. The white telephone near Stockhill Lane kiosk was probably a hangover from the wartime blackout safety precautions. I can remember kerbs painted white in the late 60s.
  8. This is not the first time NCT has trialled alternatively fuelled vehicles. They had some ethanol powered buses but the experiment only lasted as long as the subsidy from the government. Once that expired they were converted to run on good old fashioned Diesel
  9. Interesting post DJ360. I think Peter Hennessy hit the nail on the head when he said that post 1945 - without an empire to run - HMG and the Whitehall Civil Service turned its attention to the UK to keep itself occupied. The appetite for ever more central political control having been whetted by two world wars; the Fabians unshakeable belief that they always knew what was good for you and the slow, economic decline throughout the 20th Century of the great cities as a counterbalance to London. Where it will all end up is an interesting question as I am pretty sure communal politics will also
  10. The Evening Post has a video of the siren being sounded. Definitely not a WW2 air raid siren. I suspect they downloaded an MP3 and played it back over a loud speaker. It needed to be the real thing to get the emotional effect - you would not play the Last Post on a synthesiser.
  11. The organisers way oversold the 6 o'clock siren. We were sitting outside The Broadway Cinema and heard nothing.
  12. The UK's civil defence siren network was decommissioned in the early 1990s. The only sirens now remaining are those used to warn of flooding; incidents at chemical and nuclear facilities, and escapees from secure mental hospitals.
  13. Will they be using a proper, Carter 3 phase air raid siren or some pipsqueak hand-cranked job that most definitely will not be loud enough to stop people in their tracks. The real McCoy - turn down the volume on your computer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5FwsIkJCXU
  14. The closure of Canning Circus, Central and various other stations in and around the greater Nottingham area is part of Home Office policy.They want policing to be based on hubs; generally out-of-town sites on low-cost business parks with the public communicating via regional call centres or on line. The Treasury likes the system because it is much cheaper and allows for greater sharing (ie cuts) of resources between neighbouring forces. Senior officers tend to be very pro for one very good reason: they have to be in the Home Office's good books to look forward to promotion. Paddy Tipping ca
  15. Nottingham Analogue - not such a brilliant name if you had to rely on Google searches
  16. Point of information. When the City Ground opened the boundary with Nottinghamshire was based on the old course of the Trent, so the land from Lady Bay railway bridge to Wilford suspension bridge was within the City limits. When the City built Clifton Estate, and expanded its boundary, there was a land swap and Forest moved - so to speak - to County.
  17. Well I'd never heard of this before. Apparently there were plans to stage a World's Fair-type exhibition in Nottingham in 1914. The event (obviously) never went ahead but I wondered if other Nottstalgians had ever come across this before?
  18. Walking through town this afternoon I noticed that The Turf has started opening in the daytime. The question now is where will I get a pint of grossly overpriced lager at 3.30 in the morning?
  19. Music in the Lord Roberts? I know they have signs in the lavatories warning customers about fiddling and playing the organ.
  20. You can't really call The Blue Bell a pub nowadays. And the journalists, what's left of them at the Evening Post, are now mostly based in Birmingham.
  21. You could imagine Hardy Kruger piloting a Bf109, but the real Von Werra just does not have the looks to be Luftwaffe ace. Cinema Nazis always have to look the part. Anton Diffring, who made a career out of playing sinister Nazis, was Jewish; as were Derren Nesbitt, the black-uniformed blond in Where Eagles Dare, and Frederick Valk the Kommandant in The Colditz Story.
  22. POW Oberleutnant Franz von Werra ... Well I never knew that. I wonder why von Werra was being handled by the civil authorities rather than the military as a POW. Was DS Calladine attached to Special Branch?
  23. Tomorrow will see the closing ceremony for Nottingham Central Police Station after nearly 80 years. Apparently the new police "station" will be an office suite at the bottom of Derby Road.