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Carnie:. Are you looking in roughly the direction of the setting sun? If so I think you are looking at Uranus.

Beekay: . Brew: . Thank you for your input. Cliff Ton: . Radford Red: . Cliff Ton:. My problem only appears on Nottstalgia. Whilst annoying, it's not the end of the World.

Read an article by an undertaker in Italy. Bit grim. Maybe Nonna can confirm or deny its authenticity. With talk about emergency workers, we tend to forget about undertakers. Apparently, there are no funerals taking place in Italy. The dead are placed in a coffin as they die, no cleaning/applying makeup etc, sometimes if relatives ask for specific clothes to be put on the deceased, these are placed on top of the body. No redressing allowed. No items can be placed in the coffin. Relatives are not allowed viewing or their goodbyes. ( probably in quarant

Brew: it's a mark IV . Radford Red: forgot about that reset. Did as instructed. Cliff Ton: unable to answer as I only post in Nottstalgia. Not off to a good start, couldn't get in initially. Got the dreaded black circle before I could sign in. Am here now, but for how long?

Am unable to do that Beekay as its locked. Only way is to completely restart from scratch. Am hoping this message will post. If it doesn't, I will have to respond at a later date. I use an Apple I pad.

Seem to be having a few issues, if I make a comment in a thread, I am unable to make another, either in the same thread or another one. Unable to give a like to someone else's as well. The screen will go blank, then return to the page but the writing is now feint and the screen is locked. A black circle appears in the middle and spins for ever and a day. Only way to clear is to delete everything in safari and start again. Sometimes having to wait a couple of days before I can post. Any ideas? Am using an I pad. Also

Letsavago : we find ourselves in the same situation. By rationing, we can eke what we have. My plan is hopefully, in a week or so, the idiotic imbeciles that masquerade as members of the human race will have locked themselves into whatever bolt hole they find themselves in, gleefully rejoicing in their selfish behaviour bu££ering those who think about others. Sadly, some people would delight in what they've done, thinking how clever they are. What goes around comes around. Like you, we have a conscience, if we had spare items, we would share. Could still do that if we come across s

Am in total dismay at the human race. It's becoming more like Mad Max at the moment. This me me society we have created cares only about themselves: I'm alright Jack, the rest of you can fornicate off!. Why the supermarkets haven't stopped a lot of this nonesense is beyond me. They have the power to prevent this bulk buying. People limited to when they can shop, are finding they are unable to purchase what they require. Someone working 12 hrs in the NHS isn't able to shop as there's nothing left. Personally I think some of this is dow

Interesting. The water shown lies between the railway and the sewer, if it is the sewer to Stoke, then it's showing it diving under the railway in the wrong place. It doesn't do that until it gets to the Ouse Dyke. My brain hurts. The large houses on Conway Road were built 1883/1885. I think. My mind at the moment is not playing with me. There is an Eric Morecombe sketch with Andre Previn, in which he says: " I am playing all the right notes, not necessarily in the right order." Think that applies to information coming from my memory banks.

Beginning to wonder if it was connected to the building of the bowling green, council housing estate and road. Although this is at odds with what I thought. i either misunderstood what I was told, or my memory is not working. The gardens adjoining the bowling green used to flood on a regular basis until the mid eighties. Sadly, I can no longer ask questions.

AfferGorritt, no problem, think I can manage that.

Thanks Cliff Ton, however, the building the arrow is pointing to is 13 Conway Road. Demolished to make way for a row of dolls houses. The mysterious chapel should be to the right of the arrow head. Maybe not as old as I originally thought, although on the 1919 map a building that shape is actually situated at the end of Conway Road. At first glance I thought it may have been the out buildings to 1 Conway Avenue drawn in the wrong place. Now I have doubts. On the 1938 map, it is shown where it now stands. The person who paddled in the water and swung on the gate would have done t

AfferGorritt, forgot to mention, there are photos of Netherfield that show this row of houses, not brilliant, but may give an idea of where your ancestor lived. Have taken a photo of a postcard from a book but unable to put it on here. Maybe Cliff Ton has one in his library. Cliff Ton, Conway Road is doing nothing for my sanity! My memories don't correspond with any maps. Have looked at maps dated 1878, 1883, 1885, 1899, 1901, 1919, 1921, 1938. Would a private road be shown on maps? Somethings not right and it's bugging me. Have found a photograph which shows part

Apologies Cliff Ton, I was referring to 1870's 1880's in answer to Affer Gorrits query, but adding the bit about Conway Road it seemed like I was referring to the same time period. I should have made it clearer, I was in fact talking about early twentieth century. Conway Road was built early 1920's. The waterway had already been rerouted to join up with sewer water and ran in a culvert joining the main sewer that runs alongside the railway line. When I say waterway, it was basically a dyke which filled with water after heavy rain, once the flow had been diverted. Beyond the chapel stood a big

Moor Lane is the antiquarian name of the road that is now Station Road/Victoria Road. In 1846 the Midland Railway opened the Nottingham Lincoln line dissecting this road. Thus becoming Station Lane North of the railway. I presume this was down to the locals referring to recognise it leading to the railway station. In 1871, Netherfield didn't exist as a place in its own right, being classed as part of Carlton. This explains why Moor Lane is listed as the road in question. In 1871 few houses existed South of the railway. There was a row of terraced houses on the right hand side leading from the

I am not a chemist, so may be barking up the wrong tree. However, I will proceed into the unknown. Large quantities of nitro glycerine were required as a propellant in the production of cordite. In liquid form it is highly unstable and extremely difficult to transport, needing to be kept cool at all times. This would necessitate it's manufacture at the site of the blending with other elements to produce a paste. This would form a 'cake' mixture which would be warmed in stoving houses. I think the odd elliptical shapes on Cliff Tons map could be these.The earth works indicate tha

Just had a memory alert! Can now remember being told that the tunnels on the Suburban Railway were used for storing ammunition trains. This being the unofficial reason for the station closures in 1916. May be there is a connection? The official reason for their closures was put down to staff shortages, due to the war.

Thanks Fly for the recommendation, it is a good book. The picture you referred to was taken when Annesley turntable was under maintenance, as you say Annesley was capable of turning 9F's. i know the Western Region weren't keen on their locomotives going to Annesley due to the hard water. 9F's working to Nottingham on passenger trains would have been turned at Bagthorpe. Having said this, I have seen Halls at Annesley. In fact, they infamously "borrowed" one for weekend ballast workings. maybe they went to Annesley if they needed "fitters attention"!

If you compare Cliff Ton's map with google maps, you can clearly see one of the funny buildings remains as a crop mark in a field. I don't think this particular one is shown on his map. Hut 9 appears to still be there, along with another possible that doesn't have a number, located to the left of hut 9. You can also see the pathway through the trees just above it. The earthworks around these buildings is puzzling, and points to some form of military use. The curved pathways could allude to some form of movement of shells. Another strange feature which may or may not have an

Compo's photograph is missing, but I know which it is as I regularly look through Chris Ward's Annesley web pages. Am pleased you have found a photograph of the stored coaches, as I was wondering if I had remembered correctly. Have also taken Fly's recommendation and purchased The Back Line. I seem to recollect that 9F's had a route availability issue on the Leen Valley Line. The only stretch I have seen photographs is on the Bagthorpe Junction triangle where they were sometimes turned, being too large for Victoria's turntable. Someone will now produce a photograph

It should read Queens Walk, not Queens Road. Another senior moment!! The locomotive shed was actually called Arkwright Street, although most people knew it as QueensWalk, as it was situated adjacent to that siding and warehouses. It was officially closed as an engine shed in 1909, although used for stabling purposes afterwards, it's locomotive allocation being transferred to Annesley.

Railway lines have a small electric current passing through them. As a train passes over them it creates a short circuit enabling the signal man to know he has a train in a certain section. Leaves on the line create a problem, they become impacted onto the rail and become an insulator so the flim flam trains of today don't create a short circuit, thereby becoming invisible to the signal man. (A visual indication in his signal box disappears, not the train entering a twilight zone.)

Have had a senior moment: it's W. Rigley's.

Wrigleys cut up some of Gresley's O2 locomotives, mainly Grantham ones off the High Dyke workings. Loads of 16t wagons were cut up there. Am sure I'm right about the coaches. They weren't anywhere near Hereford Road though, as I remember, they were adjacent to the City Hospital.

Bubblewrap is right. The council did get the railway company to carry out a slum clearance on their behalf. Charging them compensation for the privaledge of doing so. The majority of these slum dwellers moved to other slum areas as they couldn't afford the rents of the new properties built to replace their homes. Compensation going to the owners, not the tenents. Close to 6000 people were evicted from this area. Twenty public houses were demolished, five in a sixty yard stretch in one street. The man who acted as agent for the Great Central Railway and the engineer building the section