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Alvin Lee...nice link Ashley.....I'm looking for a good copy of his album ( or cd or mp3s ) 'Love - Revisited' Thanks......" back to subject ".......
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Ayup Ashley, I don't remember trolley buses going down that road, to get to Clifton via West Bridgeford it was either a South Notts bus from Huntingdon street or Broad Marsh, Or a WBUDC or Notts corporation bus from Broad Marsh, I do remember a corporation bus (No 68 from Farnborough road) getting stuck under that bridge though, and all the passengers got off allowing the bus to rise further under the bridge wedging it good and proper, if more people had got on the bus though it would have lowered on it's springs and allowed it to get from under the bridge, I think firbeck can put us right
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Ayup Ashley would that be the Rogers that had the motorbike place on Lowater St Carlton hill?
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Hi Ashley, I think I read or saw a picture somewhere about the building of this bridge and I think the pillars are mounted on a base that is built on the original bedrock (using casons) or they themselves are built on it, think the picture might have been on "picture the past" or sommat like that, the first structure to cross the Trent in that location was wooden Rog
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Very interesting stats Ashley. The almost complete absence of diesel powered locos is a sad indictment of the railway industry's technological myopia in the interwar period. In 1938 Movietone was trumpeting Mallard as a triumph of British engineering but compared with what the Americans were introducing she was a technological Dodo. GM's 1939 offering
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Blimey Ashley, what a fascinating load of figures, where did you get them from, what makes it intriguing is that they were put together in the middle of the War, I reckon that they must have been way understaffed, it would be interesting to know, compared to peace time, how many female staff were employed and how different things were in say 1938 or 1946. Things were very fluid then, we were about to get an influx of steam engines from the USA, the system was being subject to attack from the Luftwaffe, I think we got off very lightly, an A4, Sir Ralph Wedgewood was destroyed in an air attack
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Think that'd be the demolition side, Baz. I knew Dave Watts slightly, he and his pal Roger Radford (who owned Thomas Long) used to drink in the Red Lion at Thurgarton, opposite my house. Nice bloke, no side to him at all. The artics were mainly used for abnormal loads ISTR, usually big steel RSJ's. Ashley, you are quite right; Rennie Hogg are now RH Freight, big depot on Lenton Lane and apparently doing well. Most of their work is European groupage. Katyjay, I think Newtons are still going too, and yes they did do mostly bulk milk.
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Ashley, you cut off the interesting picture showing an LNW 0-8-0. I presume this must have been a freight off the Friargate line, possibly from Uttoxeter or beyond. I don't ever remember seeing any of these at Vic, they must have been rarities, presumably serviced at Colwick. I've just looked in my really old combie and there are a couple underlined in pencil which suggests that I must have seen some in the area, I did later, but that was up in the NW.
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Hi Ashley Thanks for the pic and the info....I'de seen these pix before but hadn't realised that this was the same shed as where i entered it the track went in on the left which means i was entering the shed from the other side to the picture and so I should be able to see the bridge in the distance that crossed Vernon rd/Highbury vale...and in this pic i cant. Kev.
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Thanks for all who posted replies about The Fountain Pub. Other pubs I remember are The QE(Queen Elizabeth),Bottle Lane.This was a very well run pub and the toilets were spotless - always a good sign.There was Langtys(was The Peach Tree), Turf,Blue Bell,Lion in Clumber Street,Princess(was the Parliament House).I also remember The Crystal Palace,Clumber Street which closed down when I was living down there and was converted into a shop.It had a "listed" front window which could not be changed.A town or city's pubs are what give a place character.These days all towns have an All Bar One or mayb
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Hi Ashley I've got an Oxford 140Amp oil filled set you are welcome to borrow, or, if it's more convenient, an oxy/act porta pak. Where abouts are you situated?
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What did you wear then, that you would not be seen dead in today?
Scriv replied to mick2me's topic in 70's Nottingham
Ashley, you don't need me to tell you how much that 750-4 would be worth today.... lovely! Sorry to go off-topic, but do you remember some of the old biker haunts.... White Hart, Lenton, Gedling Miners' Welfare? As for my personal clothing embarassments; anyone remember "Oxford bag" trousers? -
Ashley if you can't take a joke you're in the wrong forums. Try something more difficult , like , say , the teletubbies homepage
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Ayup Ashley, Where abouts are you? I have a stick welder with cooling fan and plenty of 2.5mm rods pm me if you want Rog
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Ashley, I can actually remember you wearing a mod parka despite riding a big Beezer or whatever it was! Sorry, that was in the 60's! Anyway, I had a cream coloured short jacket, (similar to a jean jacket) with a sodding great "tulip" collar, and matching flares, or were they loons? Anyway, today only someone that was really camp would wear such stuff! -
No. not there Ashley.
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you are right ashley...should have remembered that sign as i was born in Liverpool and used the overhead railway as a child
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Ayup Ashley, Thats a very good point, I think with modern technology and the insurance companies looking for some one/some thing to blame for the fires it's not so easy to claim for a "self inflicted one", also I think the insurance premiums are lower the more fire protection you have installed, just a thought Rog
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Ashley Try www.old-maps.co.uk, type in Nottingham and you get a map dated 1885, it's a pain to navigate and a bit unclear sometimes, but you get the hang of it. What is fascinating is that it shows all the lines you talk about around Cinderhill, the one running along the back of Broxtowe goes on for miles with a big triangular junction between Kimberley and Strelley. I've got to nip out in a minute and haven't got time to go through it all, but see what you think, there must be many treasures on there to find.
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There's a couple of Pics of the MR bridge over Cinderhill Road Ashley, don't know if you've seen them:
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I worked in the Marquis about 1984, when Barbara Bowmar ran it. She had a reputation for standing no nonsense; lovely lady and a pleasure to work for. The pub had a reputation for a good pint of "Pedi", and IIRC did food as well; lady called Kath Scott, who I think still lives in the village, did the cooking. After Barbara retired, a chap called Barry (can't remember the surname) took it over; I remember once turning up on my Harley and asking a puzzled Barry why he'd served me; poor bloke was baffled till I took him outside and pointed to the "No Motorcyclists" on the pub sign, a throwback t
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not only was he an actor on coronation street Ashley but he has directed and taken part in the playhouse pantos for years....
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That might indeed be what I'm thinking of Ashley, could be mixing the boxer bit up with summat else. Thanks for that.
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Thanks for that Ashley, I'm not far from the ECML at Grantham so might nip down on Saturday Rog
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Thats right Ashley, where did I get the uxb from then? Rog
