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Is anyone able to recall an RAF trainer (possibly and Master or Magister) that crashed in Nuthall Road near the junction with Western Boulevard somewhere around the mid 1940's? I believe one of the pilots may have been Polish.
I found the details on a website which, unfortunately, appears to have disappeared.
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18 hours ago, benjamin1945 said:
Great day today....wore a Tie for the first time in 4 years......
Following my OP on throat thought never wear one again due to position of 'Breathing button''
Have always been a Tie wearer and finally worked out how to wear one again and still be able to Breath.......
Went out for Breakfast with the wife and it felt great.....
Think i was just about the only bloke wearing one......you can guess where i was...........
Not in Bulwell, Ben! MacDonald's maybe?
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17 hours ago, philmayfield said:
I can beat that. I haven’t worn a tie in seven years. I ceremoniously binned them never to wear a tie again. I’ve stopped wearing spats and plus fours as well. The 21st. Century is here at last!
I bet there's a cravat in your drawer!
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What a beautifully clear photograph, must have been taken on a Sunday with the absence of traffic.
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The CND protest at Greenham Common was nonsense. The CND campaign had chosen a soft target with which to publicise their aims. Has it made any difference? No!
I noticed with irritation that these, so called, nuclear disarmament martyrs never attempted to make their presence felt against the Russians. They probably silently applauded the Russian Bear who, over subsequent years, were devising and plotting the spread of evil, lies and murder across national borders with impunity.
If the nuclear martyrs are still active or still harbour, their naïve views try protesting on the streets of Russia. If they seek further publicity for their lost cause, they can be sure of a rapid and painful response.
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The memories and reminiscences of older Nottingham and similar topics and characters like the ROF, I find is what NS is really about.
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Are we discussing the Dunkirk roundabout fly-over of timber construction of around 1959 or is this a different project?
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I seem to recall the County team was referred to as Notts County as they were a Nottinghamshire team.
Though Nottingham Forest as I recall was known as Nottingham Forest, often abbreviated to Notts Forest.
As for the TV programme, 'Sherwood', the accents are quite authentic and can hear one of my friends, an ex-miner, from Top Valley speaking with the same dialect, apart from using the term of endearment, 'Miduck'.
The term 'Miduck' was frequently used by my uncle who had butcher's shops in Bulwell and on Lincoln Street, Basford, in the 50's and 60's.
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I don't remember electric irons plugged into light sockets. In my childhood and later years we only had flat irons heated on the gas ring.
Later years I reflect my grandmother placing the kettle on the gas ring, forgetting, unfortunately, that it was an electric kettle!
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I would agree that too general chatting does tend to bury the interesting posts. NS, it's about Nottingham, interesting people, bygones and history and places, not irrelevant chit chat.
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I don't know about some mythical entity who, apparently, sits in clouds, surrounded by obese children, with wings, dressed in white robes sporting a beard is about to save the world or the UK from war, famine, disease etc, this mythical, will of the whisp, which inhabits of some minds has yet to achieve any such thing. As for saving the monarch, save her from what?
Not an leftie or a righty just a realist.
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When I see or hear of this pair of misfits they remind me of Edward and Mrs Simpson. May they go State side and stay there.
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Maid Marion Way. A road to nowhere as featureless as a dead scrub land track.
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I have been a buyer of wine usually from Laithwaites or my local Morrison's. Sav Blanc, Pinot Grigio, either from Oz, NZ, south American, Chile and some eastern European varieties, all whites. Lately, I have found the the Sav Blanc's a little more full bodied, than ussual, on the palate. The pinot's a little harsh and acidic.
I tried a Reisling, going back many years, and WOW! what a pleasant surprise. Smoothe, dry and fruity with a refreshing finish. Morrison's too. Topped up the wine rack. Cheers!
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2 hours ago, philmayfield said:
'Britain's got Talent'. Half the entrants aren't British and very few have any talent. Some get a sympathy vote if they're a child or have a disability but we'll never see them again. Would Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson win a talent show today? They'd certainly get the sympathy vote!
I saw them perform at an outdoor venue many years ago at Ratcliffe on Trent. During their perfomance, and much to their disgust, a removal lorry past by between the stage and the audience. Tends to sum up their waning popularity at the time.
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I bet Camilla had a hand in this!
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23 hours ago, siddha said:
We do not need to "remove" the monarchy as such.
Let The Windsors do what they do as a wealthy family but we should decouple them from our nation's decision making; unless of course any of them choose to stand in our (so called) democratic elections. They and their kind should be consigned to our history and that can be acknowledged appropriately without spending public monies raised from taxation.
The administration of the nation should concentrate on providing a healthy and safe place in which we can live with our neighbours.
Unfortunately, the political administration is, by its very nature riddled by self interest and inter-party rivalry. We have muddled economic policies, and instantaneous ill-thought out responses to various national and international crises. We are in a national crisis as regards fuel and power supplies; the administrators have been, yet again caught napping. We have fuel and energy reserves. But once again the power lobby have been obstructed by the green activists into obtaining partial self-reliance on fuel and energy.
We have a national emergency, so our energy reserves should be utilised immediately, including reopening, of one initiative, fracking.
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As a republican we are unable to shut up! It must be obvious to most that we are not in a true democracy. The monarchial family are so ingrained within the culture of our nation, by their guile, that the republicans amongst us are unable to remove them. Unless by the ballot box. We could, given sufficient support by a majority of government ministers, if they are strong enough in temperament, they could be removed by an Act of Parliament. This is democracy!
Pomp and ceremony may be said to be an aid to soften and tranquilise the criticism of the wanton indulgence enjoyed, as a life long priviledge of a very minor few. Nice to watch but of no practical benefit. Especially to those lesser mortals who would welcome even the basic moral and economic support .
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This royalty farce is all pomp and no circumstance. Bejewelled non-entities with medals never earned. Perverts, womanisers, parading their high military ranks never earned or deserved. A lot of the population fall for this glittering pagent of grossly over privileged, unmerited, confidence tricksters and all of their hangers-on.
Makes me sick to see the pompous hoards of them dressed in their ridiculous outfits smirking on the palace balcony. Time to go!
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The Golden Fleece at Upper Broughton I remember well. It now appears to have changed its name. There is a brook passing under the Melton road near to Nether Broughton which is the Dalby Brook, the main source of this stream rises from the grounds of Old Dalby Hall passing on its north easterly route under the railway embankment.
Six Hills (Wartnaby) was an area of earlier iron stone extraction. Six Hills rifle range is still extant, located on Six Hills Lane, opposite the golf course and next to the solar farm.
The once existed a Broughton Grange, a fine residence demolished by the MOD 1949? on land adjoining the RAOC/REME Camp Dalby Depot. (GE) 52. 58' 47N - 00. 58' 53W.)
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Not the type of people you mix with, of course. Phil!
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Nonna,
what a lovely fig tree. I've a potted one and it's producing a fairly good growth but not, as yet, as prolific as yours. Good luck!
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In my earlier post of visiting G&S, my mother and grandmother were not posh merely because we had tea there.
We were a one parent family. My mother, grandmother and I; living in a two bedroomed prefab, that, by necessity, we also had a lodger for a few years at a time to help boost the household income.
I, as a young boy, had to share my room with this lodger, a practice that would be severly criticised and frowned upon today.
Posh! not at all. When I reached working age I became the main bread winner, Until I married and my allotment stopped.
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I remember the restaurant on the top floor of G&S where teas, coffee and light meals were served by waitresses dressed in white pinafors.
I often enjoyed the view over slab square from the window tables.
It was a large carpeted lounge and the waitresses had an enlosed cubicle in which to sit and for orders taken from the menue and for bills to be written before being brought to the tables.
Nottingham Air Crash - Nuthall Road
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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Many thanks for the link!