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not bad team Ashley did they win owt/?
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yes Ashley forgot Birch was at leicester,he still lives that way,Mountsorrell i think,and he still works on the promotional side for them,i think micky played for a few clubs before injuries forced him to retire.Saw em both along with David Pleat ex Mundella school then forest,at a reunion at notts co meadow club a few years back -
I'd never heard of Randy Hansen before, Ashley. but he's certainly worth listening to. A great Jimi Hendrix tribute band. -
Walking the old railway lines after closure.
Rob.L replied to Bilbraborn's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Ashley, have a look at http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12022&hl=%2Bmapperley+%2Btunnel and you'll see recent (as in taken on the day they were posted) photos of what is now termed the "nature walk". Gets a bit confusing when two threads cover the same topic! -
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Rob.L replied to Bilbraborn's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Ashley, this is the original image... http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw020940?search=Daybrook&ref=1&quicktabs_image=2#quicktabs-image -
Ashley mentioned at the beginning of this thread that he was/is looking for a photo which shows all three bridges on Meadow Lane when they were still in operation. So far there hasn't been much success, but I've found this from the 'Britain from Above' site. And a bit closer.
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Having just demolished a meal of two Farmfoods pork steaks,(4 for £2) mashed taters,two veg and gravy plus quarter of chocolate swiss roll covered in custard....total cost no more than £2....I agree with you Ashley. Mother and child even on the totally rubbish minimum wage don't need to live on toast....loada cobblers. Especially as she would be getting help with other expenses too.
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Northgate New Basford
Beduth replied to Craig Strongman's topic in 'Mucky Ukna' Bull'el Baasford & Hyson Green
Hi Ashley, Sorry I didn't pick up your post identifying exactly where the Dalziel family lived. I was right then; you could see Hucknall from Chard St. Rosetta Rd. Nottingham Road. Thanks for that. Train spotting. After school across Nottm Road; up to 'second field' to spot the Master Cutler 'namer'. The second field was where we would spend many hours making dens etc. during summer holidays. Around dinner time (now called lunch) I would have to look out for Mother waving a towel from the back bedroom window; telling me and pals to get home for the meal. I had many a squashed penny off that -
Lenton station and its level crossing
StephenFord replied to Cliff Ton's topic in Pete's Nottingham Transport Forum
Ashley - re #3 I think I have read that there were no level crossings at all on the Great Central's London extension (i.e. all the way from just outside Sheffield to Marylebone). -
Yes I thought so. The girl has P&B on her friends list as well as Ashley Lots of pictures taken @WH pub
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Yes Ashley it was Marks and Spencer, not Hooleys. Re the #63 photo I think that Hooleys had been demolished shortly before t was taken. It would have been on the right of the photo, There was a narrow road shaped like a right angle between the garage and the side and back of Hooleys.
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Hooleys motorcycle shop later became a chinky (am I allowed to sat that now?) before it was the lighting shop. It was just south the old ballroom and the roundabout it faced was known as Hooleys island. I remember because I once slid my bike off there. Not to be outdone another biker once went straight through Hooleys showroom window. It might have been Mick Marriot, but I'm not sure. Ashley, can you ask him?
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Ashley that was a great day but sadly came to an end too soon. Thankfully, there were loads of photographic opportunities during that celebration year.
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Ashley: it's an optical delusion. The bridge is Thakary's Lane looking towards Woodthorpe.
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Re- #69 - Ashley - hear what you say, and I'll certainly go along with the steam trains etc. but are you prepared to be the night-soil collector ?! Or, having come to power, would you reserve that for (as it now appears, a certain MP never actually said) "plebs"? Actually, the health hazards of that system might be a cue for a thread about Nottingham's redoubtable and long-serving medical officer Philip Boobbyer?
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Ashley, Don't think the residents of the houses built where the line and embankments used to be would agree!
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Bilbraborn replied to Bilbraborn's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Ashley. We tried to return them but someone had 'borrowed' the ruddy signal box. LOL. We often 'borrowed' artifacts from SBs. Usually the acid batteries in the basement had been tipped over by yobbos making them dangerous places to enter. The Bakelite labels on the levers were removable and described what the lever did. In Leen Valley Junction Box were brass labels above the set of levers referred to. Such as 'Up line from Basford' and 'Down line from Daybrook'. The little sign on the basement door which said, 'No unauthorised materials to be stored in here' was fastened to my shed door f -
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Compo replied to Bilbraborn's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Ashley and RobL: This man is boss of the Friends of the Nottm Suburban Rly and has all the gen. he has published two books on the line too: davidbirch@osirisltd.co.uk -
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barclaycon replied to Bilbraborn's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Ashley. I recall, from reading about Mapperley tunnel, that the roof collapse was in 1925. All trains had to be diverted over the Suburban line while it was being repaired. It was probably the busiest that the NSR had ever been! Even though the tunnel was repaired and re-instated, it continued to suffer problems due to subsidence and was subject to speed restrictions until the eventual closure in April 1960 as you've said. -
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Bilbraborn replied to Bilbraborn's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Ashley. Lost 2 mates when I was a shunter. One got his head partially severed when an HST power car moved to couple to a barrier wagon while he was in between. A driver mistook his mates signal. The other was a shunter at the Derby Research unit. He fell behind a train he was involved in shunting. He lost an arm and a leg and too much blood. We also began to get increasing numbers of suicides splattered across the front of HSTs when they were hit at 125mph. It wasn't much fun cleaning that lot off. I remember going around annesley marshalling yard just after it closed. What a mess the v -
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Bilbraborn replied to Bilbraborn's topic in General Chat about Nottingham
Aren't we all Ashley? We did the suburban. We had to deviate where it was built over but we did walk through Bluebell Hill tunnel and also the one from Sherwood vale to Wells Road. We also walked through the one under Woodthorpe Park, sitting high up on the north parapet swinging our legs and eating sandwiches. I was about 16 at the time. There was still a lot of infrastructure on the Nottingham Suburban at that time considering the last train used it in 1951. We didn't get around to walking through Mapperley Tunnel unfortunately. I think the splitting embankment at Daybrook juncti -
Ashley used to be next door to Hollinwell golf course, just a flattish field really. About 1/2 mile from Shoulder of Mutton Hill
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Sorry Ashley but if the cloud was drifting to the East as I believe it was then that would rule out that theory. Hollinwell golf course it in a north westerly actually NNW direction from Bulwell. In fact if I remember correctly the police ruled it out at the time for just that reason
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Ashley dont know exactly where you are refering to cos i ant been there for years but what used to be radliffe by pass the road that run fro radcliffe rd west bridgeford to radliffe on trent going to radcliffe on trent from nottingham just after gamston there was a llane on the left hand side that my dad used when he worked for hovringham and later topmix it was holme pierpoint quarry prior to the water sports centre being built there was quite a wide lane there it had massive pitholes where the lorries had damaged going up and down all day.
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Never understand why anyone goes to Co-ops. As Ashley says, they are stupidly expensive. Last time I ever saw their prices you could get everything much cheaper in any other supermarket.
