Willow wilson
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Gigged in a band with Alvin Lee and Ivan Jay in 1960.
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A well turned out trike machine you have there Rog. I take it yours is the one with black rims. Impressed. Drum brakes, proper steering geometry, (Ackerman ?). Out of interest is there any special way to measure/adjust trike wheels alignment?
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1 hour ago, MargieH said:
What word can you see in this photo taken late evening yesterday?
Sunset
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7 hours ago, Jill Sparrow said:
Tis also The Bard's birthday!
Marvin;
Life. Don't talk to me about life.
Qoheleth;
Vanitas vanitatum. Omnia vanitas
Macbeth:
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing.
Next, a reconciler for Jill since I stomped on her Shakespeare post;
Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven, and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe. (D.Adams)
That is all.
(With an edit)
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Talking pictures.
Watched 'A Kind Of Loving' last week.
When Vic got on the bus home from work the conductor was Wally Batty.
Prolly daydreaming about pijins.
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Re the above CT street view: The Post Office was in the premises on the corner (Nuthall Rd/Albert ave) where the black car is parked off road. The PO closed about 15 or more years ago, the red/white shop has had a few uses over the years, the last I remember was a cafe/bap takeaway until a few years ago. That would be kt792's old shop.
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I'm familiar with And Can it Be and Ebenezer, I encountered them many times in the 80s, but with different words to Ebenezer, (we were Chapel) and others, Ellers, and the sailors' hymn tune Melita. Add to that St Clement, all stirring tunes. (One or two interesting cadences in Ebenezer too)
When, as a junior, I was sent off to chapel on Sundays I didn't much listen to the talking but the hymns fascinated me as did the wheezing clonking old pipe organ behind the pulpit, not even imagining that later I'd spend 25 years playing elsewhere for others to sing to during the 70s 80s 90s. It's a different slick hi tech world nowadays.
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All our bitter-sweet yesterdays, precious, entwine within the march of time.
Good shared times Jill.
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The plaque was queried on a nottingham21.co.uk website in 2006 under the Nottingham miscellany tab but with no information forthcoming. It's described as the grocers plaque.
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It's the Mount Zion Millennial Church. The building is listed.
From cinematreasures.org.
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Pic no. 2. The fruit and veg market. Every lorry delivering here in the early 60s was a sheeted load, handball on and off. When they had unloaded the driver spread the tarps out in the middle of the road and folded them in their special way, outer edge to middle, with ropes in.
Pic no. 25. In the background shows a good view of the Ragged School. I think it's still there but don't know if it's in use for anything nowadays.
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We sang this in my school in the early 50s. It captured my imagination then and remained with me ever since although the school words were quite different the sentiment was the same. I can't find an English translation exactly similar to the one I learned but the tune is pure longing.
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Cobblers I remember.
Alfreton road opposite Gagg's motorbike shop (near Newdigate st)
This was our regular cobbler.
West side of Broad street, opposite Lord Roberts.
Bottom of Hucknall road. A small lockup between the bank on the corner of Mansfield Rd and a row of shops on Hucknall rd.
Nuthall Rd between Whitemoor Avenue and Western Blvd. This was a stand alone lock-up wooden shop.
Aspley lane near Amersham rise, this business relocated from the Commodore shops when the commodore was refurbished and the local bank closed.
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We'll tackle those after lunch, Margie.
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Another great leap forward for mankind, this week somebody calculated the value of pi to 31 trillion decimal places.
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This is a kiosk which looks similar.
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My guess is that it's on North Circus street opposite Albert Hall and facing Derby road (going left to right across the picture where the horse is). The east end of Nottingham St Barnabas Cathedral on the left behind the wall. Those buildings across Derby Rd were all demolished when Tollhouse Hill was developed. The buildings far in the distance were demolished when Wollaton st was developed. The kiosk; there is a modern phone kiosk there now.
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It might have closed earlier than 1960, Ben, I'll have a net-browse for some maps or photos.
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My first car (in the early 60s) was a 1946 Riley RMA. The engine design was that of a 1935 Kestrel and which stayed in production until 1957.
I polished the paintwork with Brasso. I learned a lot about cars with that vehicle.
I cringe when I think of how I much I paid, it turned out it was in very poor condition. My neighbour at that time was a qualified mechanical engineer and he stood looking at it, shaking his head and tut-tutting.
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There was a Marsden shop on Basford road at the bottom of Saxby's twitchell, opposite Hayling road. I nearly went for a Saturday job there but instead got a newspaper round.
It must have closed early 60s.
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On 3/6/2019 at 4:18 PM, loppylugs said:
It's those 16/32 pipes that make organ music so satisfying to me. Still takes some pretty good speakers to reproduce them to any degree, especially the 32s. You just tend to feel those rather than hear them.
True LL, it works on a real pipe organ with no colouration or distortion I agree but I think for me chasing it down with huge contraptions in my home will be frustrating, apart from Mrs WW's veto.
Sometime in the 80s I went to a concert in the Albert Hall Nottm. This was before they inserted that floor which cut the main auditorium in 2. I got a seat in the middle, the huge space went from ground level below the pulpit to that large curved ceiling.
The highlight of the concert was this..(this clip is of a different organ but the Albert Hall Binns did a fabulous job)
This was the real McCoy surround sound, through the seat anorl.
I realised at the time, I'll never reproduce this through speakers so I made do with what I had.
ps it's not bad on decent headphones.
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No problem Col, glad to share a natter with other audiophiles.
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I know what you mean LL, the first I experienced them was in an auditorium with a pipe organ.
Also I could just about make them out when in the 60s I built a couple of 30 litre bass reflex Wharefdale enclosures driven by an amplifier in which I'd tweaked the tone ccts. The most satisfying was through Sennheiser headphones; my room is not big enough to accommodate the full effect acoustically.
Keep playing LL, I'm playing my Korg right now, in between checking out NS.!
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Thank you for your comments Col. We acquired this radio new when I was about 5 or 6 (1949 ish) so didn't appreciate the finer points of audio reproduction then. But as you related the ideal is to isolate front from back. Still listening to music on it in 1959/60 it was a good quality general listening radio, 10" speaker. For instance I can remember 'Jailhouse Rock' when it was first broadcast and the opening bars which included a raunchy bass walk-up (pitched about E2 I think) sounded impressively rounded, smooth and even; that's one feature I remember in my early audio learning curve but that's all that was required of a radio those days, no sub fundamentals, I can't remember those physical notes from a 16'/32' organ pipe music. Bearing in mind that it was Long Wave and am medium wave, it was top-end which was weak compared with later FM.
I understand Murphy experimented with infinite baffles but didn't include them in this level (£28/19s/9d) of domestic radio but made the baffle work. There were 8" deep side cheeks to the main top-to-bottom support structure at the rear, further baffling the speaker back, which extended the audio path a bit, the space between them (where the electrics and speaker were) was finished with a perforated cover which may have damped things a bit. Granted it was stylish but I'm convinced there was a fair bit of science in the design.
Having said that, it was fine for us in the domestic setting for music for over 20 years.
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Famous Nottingham Folk
in General Chat about Nottingham
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Late1959/early 1960 Col, perhaps would have been pre-proto Jaycats, can't remember. Ivan Jay was in this band I think before Lee who joined us very shortly after. We had a regular turnover of members, about one every 3 weeks or so including me eventually. I could do rhythm or bass and doing a gig in the Radford youth club (which became Clements piano showroom) the then bass player took a turn on the stage upright piano to sing Cockran's 'Something Else', lending me his red Fender precision bass (deep joy) it being a feature of that song. He was known I believe as Max and he replaced me soon after. There was a regular rhythm player who survived me in that band who later I believe went on to seek his fortune on cruise ship entertainment. At one time we had a drummer who lived down Newquay avenue.
One thing very evident to me at that time was the single-minded determination and ambition to succeed in this career which motivated Jay and Lee. They insisted on the same commitment from everybody, which was not my style at the time.