Willow wilson

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  1. The MGA, following on from the TF was as big an attention grabber as the XK120 in my view. The rail track in this picture is, if you will, the clear dividing line between nature's eternal sacred and the daily mundane of living.
  2. It's the same with the Triumph Dolomite, Cliff Ton.
  3. I was too young to appreciate the sensation caused at the1948 motor show by the xk120 but looking at the historic press pictures I think all the talk of the 120 overshadowed the equally deserving, classic designed Jaguar mk V saloon. From an aesthetic viewpoint I would put them equal for appeal. Two different markets, I know. The 2 cars shared most of the mechanicals.
  4. Chairman, I propose that: 1/ the green car be identified as a 1954 Singer Roadster. 2/ the blue lorry be identified as a Fordson Thames (1947-1957) I agree that they are beautiful to look at and evocative for some my age.
  5. I started regularly meeting a girl in the 49 coffee bar. Her mother met us in there one afternoon and invited me to their house just off Arkwright st. When we were nearly there the conversation turned to a day when the mother had argued with the father and stabbed him with a pair scissors. The girl was a nice lass really, affable, cheeky, confident but given to biting when in a clinch. Biting and stabbing not being my fetish I moved on. Another regular date invited me to her house when her mother was out at bingo, her father came home late from work spitting nails, but not at me: he
  6. The loco in the painting looks to me like GWR Badminton class 3292-3311, introduced C1897. Edit. Date as per MI's post. And a model of same A very relaxed scene and even has the old bobby who's not bristling with weapons.
  7. There may be some artistic licence in the picture but after a search, my guess is the bike is a matchless model 35/CS And at £57 not cheap. 1935
  8. Into guitars? Yes since 1959. I've had about 9 and I've still got 4 at home. I can strum Michael Row The Boat Ashore and a few similar folk songs. I never got the Hendrix, Clapton, Les Paul thing. I can do a good Hank Marvin's Apache on my 1999 CIJ Strat 62. Some take to guitar playing like a duck to water but I can't seem to get it. (But I'm not giving up yet). I'm now learning to do finger pick, so that's my latest challenge using an acoustic Yamaha apx500iii. Actions a bit high for me but that's all I'm paying for a guitar from now. I used to buy guitar and guitar player magazin
  9. The power of advertising! Especially if it's ambiguous.
  10. That was a popular way of treating colds and the like. When I was working and someone didn't turn up for work a relative would ring us up to excuse them and say "he's baggleh on two chairs" You've got a good memory there MargieH. I can remember a lot from childhood, but I think a good memory is very satisfying so long as you can filter out the painful stuff.
  11. Radio vision house. Southey street/Bentinck rd. It was a TV and radio shop but had a comprehensive collection of model aircraft kits. I bought all my balsa wood, tissue paper glues and dope from there.
  12. You've just fired up my memory of Whitemoor nursery NBL. About 1949 I started and the first day we played in table mounted sandbox. One day I tied a wooden cotton reel on the end of a piece of string and spun it like an aeroplane propeller, the knot came undone and the reel went through a window. I too remember the campbeds and, in the mornings, a stick of burnt toast to eat. We all wore smocks with individual badges on the chest, mine was a swan which matched up to the swan badge on the clothes peg in the washroom where the individual soap and towel bags hung. We had a toy cash register and c
  13. MargieH. My Odmedod was an innocent character in my older sister's 1940s Rupert Books. We had one bedtime Rupert story read to us most nights. Not really a baby talk word though. Pleasant memories.
  14. In our house when I was an infant a horse was Dobbin and a scarecrow was odmedod, although that's a hedgehog. That was the only baby talk allowed because they appeared in our story books and I persisted with them.
  15. Quote: "Known to everyone who knew him as Ronnie Harker, he was a test and liaison pilot at Rolls-Royce Hucknall. " Good post Chulla, interesting autobiography here. Probably out of print now: C Flight 504 County of Nottingham Squadron, 1933. Sqn Ldr Harker. Also my father seated far left of picture:
  16. Remember the old saying "like the backend of a tram smash"? They don't ev tram smashes like theh used ter.
  17. https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/15362-slab-square-1951/?do=findComment&comment=469961 Catfan posted a charming video of our slab square last year. I thought it was worth another viewing.
  18. Sorry Catfan, I went last week. The dentist has a brand new all-singing all-dancing Japanese made chair apparatus thing and photos of aeroplanes around his office. We discussed P51s pylon racing in the USA and the upcoming renewal of his pilot's instrument rating cert. and the merits of taking it in a twin engine as opposed to a single engine aircraft. Oh, and he did some dental work while I was there.
  19. Dentist's drills driven by a long piece of string routed over lots of pulley wheels.
  20. Oztalgian. Remember these cars had illuminated semaphore turn indicators in the centre pillar. I know what you're saying about the wheelbrace. I bought one about 15 inches long with a telescopic handle which extends to about 2foot for my last car but my latest car has no spare wheel no wheelbrace and no jack, just an electric pump and a container of goo which is put in a tyre when it's punctured. Cheers.
  21. Correction. My last post should read E93a, not E98.