Willow wilson
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Best looking trolleybuses in the country.
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Get well soon Catfan.
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Was it NCS, young Benjamin?
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Remembrance Day, "They shall grow not old......We will remember them" is the formal sombre theme (verse 4 For the Fallen) but verse 5 is the overall war reality which gives me the stark inner sadness:-
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again,
They sit no more at familiar tables of home,
They have no lot in our labours of the daytime,
They sleep beyond England's foam.
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My daughter's wedding, for the bride entering we had "I've waited a lifetime for a moment like this" (Kelly Clarkson) and the first dance was to "I don't wanna miss a thing" by Aerosmith.
I like these songs, and they moved me deeply in this context.
After that things gradually descended into a deafening disco that could be heard two counties away.
But it was their day and they enjoyed it, dancing and chattering on into the night.
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The dreaded Milbro, MargieH. I had one of those when I was about 7. Unsupervised and no instruction.
Allotment, greenhouse, small boys, catapult. Two of these items perhaps don't belong with the other two. They didn't down Whitemoor avenue one fine day.
Deep trouble and painful results!
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Merthyr Imp, I can't find a Leyland Royal Tiger in SUT fleet list for the 50s so I must be mistaken. I got the coach name right but not the owner. But I saw one of the Burlingham Seagulls and it was at Mablethorpe but I don't know the operator. I'll console myself with that.
According to Old Bus Photos website SUT did consider a mk7 and mk5 Seagull in 1957/8 but they didn't take them into the fleet permanently.
It could have been (most likely) an SUT AEC Regal with Burlingham Seagull body from 1953.
I will now stop digging.
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That's the correct livery Merthyr Imp but not the coach. I can't work image posting yet. The image I'm after is
google:-
Leyland royal tiger 1953.
The first image is a cream and maroon one by Burlingham Seagull coach builder. But in Boulton's of Shropshire livery. The one I saw was a Burlingham Seagull in SUT livery.
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Thanks D B.
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From the picture titled "somewhere on here", behind the bus to the right was Gedling st. The big block building on the right was a telephone exchange. There was a couple of shops on this end of the telephone exchange building but can't remember what during that period. Yes it had a curved window. Then Boston st. Then a tyre centre, followed by the back end of Brook Street surface car park. Further up was Shipsides petrol station and car showroom, then Royal Mail sorting office and garage.
The building on the left foreground I think was connected with boots packaging and printing. About where the bus is was a Pullmans store. I know this doesn't locate P+B but I enjoyed doing it.
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Yep. Far more handsome than the Bristol any day!
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Not buses in Nottingham but if I may digress a bit.
When I were a skinny junior school kid wi' scabby knees and short trahsers, family spent many happy hols at Mablethorpe. We stayed at a b+b in Wellington Square.
On High Street opposite Victoria rd is a covered indoor market. That used to be a coach garage which went through to Tennyson st. At 7am I would be dressed and sent out the house while my parents attended to my 2 younger brothers. Which was the time the coaches were driven out of the garage and parked on Tennyson st ready for the day's schedules.
I saw a full front Dennis coach one year, chassis-less according to the plate in the cab.(how did that stay straight, I thought). There was always a few Lincolnshire Road car, Bristol chassis, half cab in green and a few other makes which elude me now. Pride of place for me was the one day a week we had a Sheffield United Tours Leyland Royal Tiger in bright red and cream with chrome trim. Twin double-curve windscreen, twin destination blind, and centre sliding door, SUT badge on the sides. Not a straight line on it anwhere. It was like a space ship to me at the side of the other mundane ones.
I've still got a soft spot for the mundane ones though.
Regards Nottm buses, I have a vague but persistent memory of the bus that went to City Hospital, 17?. I came back into town one evening in 61 or 62 on a bus, double deck, half cab, doors at front and the conductor said was on loan/trial. It looked like a Bristol tin front but may have been a new AEC Renown. I've not seen any in Nottm since, they all seemed to be Atlanteans about then.
P.S. I'm not a bus expert but I like to read about them, in fact anything self propelled with wheels or wings.
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You're right Danny333. Chick Zamick had a dry cleaners on Alfreton rd. Another ex Panthers man was Les Strongman who had a newsagents a few doors up from Beales.
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I read you DJ360, interesting subject. About 50 years ago I built a couple of 40 litre enclosures to a Wharfedale spec and fitted their drivers in. I had a modest hifi amp in which I modified the tone circuits to a spec from a hifi mag of the era. The mod was entitled "Enhance your deep deep bass". It made a subtle but very smooth full audio range. Over the following years things like Queen's greatest hits and Radetzky March, Buxtehude, Bach, Widor, Holst and Tomita, all sounded great to my ears through that lash up. It could handle owt I chucked at it.
I've still got it somewhere in the attic, full of spiders I bet.
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Love Kawasaki? I'd love a single seat 1980 Z 1000 brush painted all over in Matt khaki.
Like what I saw at the Bulldog Bash in Stratford 20 year ago.
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Frustrating the pics have gone.
Got a couple to share when I've worked it out.
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A quick recap of the fire place ranges.
They were called Yorkist ranges. There are some beautiful ones imaged on internet.
Resume....
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On 30/09/2017 at 2:03 PM, loppylugs said:
BTW. WW. Glad there is another organist onboard. I'm only a very amateur organist. I started to learn about five years ago. Couldn't read a note of music, never played any instrument. Now have an Allen, on which I mangle poor old Bach's music.
I hang around the Organ forum some. Quite a few Hammond guys on there.
L.L Just listened to your video on the other thread. Sounds good and that's a sweet sounding organ. I've never heard of Allen until now.
I see you use both feet, even better. If you got that far in 5 years you're doing ok imo and have an ok teacher.
I'm an amateur, got no certificates for organ but I could play a bit on piano. When I took up organ locally I played out of a piano hymn book (Wesleyan type) with music in only treble and bass clef. I played the low notes line of the bass clef on the pedals and proceeded from there. Started off with 25 note radial pedals but they bought a new organ with 13 pedals which excluded any hope of serious attempts at classical. I plugged away at congregation accompaniment for many years and enjoyed it. Did a number of weddings, funerals, baptisms.
Then about 20 yr ago we got a new young pastor.
He carefully considered the organ and decided he was afraid that it had got to go.
So it went.
So did I. Ha. No hard feelings, I was not with-it and too old for what was on the agenda.
My home organ is essentially a modern stage instrument but it has onboard an exquisite sounding baroche plpe organ sampled with reeds etc. I may catch up on the classics one day.
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An acquaintance of mine in the 60s drove for a hauliers based in Ruddington. In the winter of 63 he said he parks up for the night in the yard and left the engine ticking over all night. Don't know if he was pulling me leg or not. Sounds drastic.
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The radio set may be mostly gone by the time the present youth generation is middle aged. Even I've succumbed to the internet radio station. For music while working in my kitchen I connect my mobile to a little speaker thing and select via a radio app one station which plays what I like. There are few adverts and few egotistical station identifiers.
I don't use those ear plug things, they give a false ambience and get tangled and can be dangerous in a working situation.
For serious music listening I don't think you can beat a good quality stereo speaker set up, whether playing CDs, MP3 or radio. For my other listening, mostly talking programmes, I use a proper simple to use dab/fm radio set.
With a radio set (dab, FM, or am) nobody "out there" knows what you're listening to!
When I was a youth you had to stop indoors in one place to listen to your music on a record player or mains radio. Then came portable radios in the park. The trend now in a mobile "mobile" generation is to listen on the move with ear phones, the temptation being to do any serious listening en route to somewhere rather than in an uncluttered quality listening time with a hifi.
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It can be a disappointment sometimes to delve too closely into the rosy past.
But I heard recently on radio 4 a rerun of Journey into Space and it had lost none of its attraction. It was as engrossing to me as the first time. Must be something to do with the unique pictures that come with radio programmes.
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I like my radios and I think dab is a marvelous invention.
Our parent's first radio was prewar with a huge accumulator like a car battery for the valve heaters and a dry battery for the valve HT.
My dad then bought a floor standing Murphy 146 in 1950. It was mainly a large flat varnished wood baffle 2ft 6 high 2ft 6 wide with a 10" cloth covered speaker set in the middle and a linear tuning strip along the top. It was the hifi of its day. We enjoyed everything the BBC put out on that, home service, light prog, 3rd prog. Operas, concerts, dramas, hymns, jazz, big bands, close harmonies, skiffle, crooners, popular, listen with mother, Dick Barton, children's hour, rock n roll, Wilfred pickles, goon show, Kenneth Horne, Archie Andrews, mrs Dale's diary, The Huggets, Hancock, football results, Ray's a laugh, 20 questions. And the ubiquitous Billy Cotton and family favourites, Friday night is music night; The tune "Roses From The South" is etched on my memory forever, associated with pleasant orchestral music wafting me off to my childhood sleep at night.
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Again I'm reminded of my history master's advice: the future is never what you expect it to be. Maybe that doesn't apply to everyone.
I was interested in guitars and organs. They had some big Hammonds in Farmers in the 60s and I wanted one. I eventually bought a Nord C2 + Hammond pedals in 2002. Long wait but after 25 years as a "lay musician" organ grinder in a small church i could enjoy my new instrument without any pressure.
I also picked up 4 guitars along the way.
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A bit of Netherfield's prewar history. There used to be a cycle shop at 36 Meadow rd until recently run by Henry Lloyd. He and a few friends started up the Nottingham Clarion cycle club in the 1930s. It's still going but nowhere near as big as at the begining.
A website is nottinghamclarion.co.uk and if you navigate to "about the club" and then to "club history" it's all there.
Sentimental old songs and memories
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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I remember the song, loppy.
Also gillygillyosenfeffercatsanelan bogum by the sea. I bet I spelled that wrong but predictive was happy with it.
And I'm a pink toothbrush.
My brother and I would sing Runaway Train, taking a verse each plus some improvised ones.
Mrs W and I still do the cloud picture thing.