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Some on here may know that there was a specialist designer and maker of very good hi-fi turntables called 'Nottingham Analogue'. The company was owned by Tom Fletcher, who sadly passed away a few years ago. When I visited he was based in Underwood, Notts.

Anyway, many people still use his products but those on the hi-fi forums I visit will insist on referring to them as 'Notts Analogue' and it's winding me up! :angry2:

They were made in Nottinghamshire, which can be abbreviated to Notts, but they are called Nottingham Analogue, and IMHO the only correct abbreviation for Nottingham is Nottm.

At least that's what I was told as a kid. Hence Notts. County and Nottm. Forest.

Am I right?

Col

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The company's proper name is Nottingham Analogue, wherever they might be based. Therefore, for me, it should be 'Nottm Analogue'

As an aside, it's noticeable how some people from outlying districts refer to a visit to Nottingham as 'going down Notts'!

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IF he called them Nottingham.......then they are Nottingham...........and you are right......

But Underwood is Notts.......then you are wrong..................

Bugs me when places in Notts are called Nottingham.............i live outside the boundary of Nottingham so i;m in Notts..............

regarding Forest and County i believe their origins were the other way round..........Forest began in the City and i think County began in the County.

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Post codes are all over the place. Grantham for instance is Nottingham postcode but geographically it IS in Lincolnshire !

Skegness is in Lincolnshire but the post office allocated Peterborough for it !

Re Nottm Analogue, where was the company's head office situated ?

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Point of information. When the City Ground opened the boundary with Nottinghamshire was based on the old course of the Trent, so the land from Lady Bay railway bridge to Wilford suspension bridge was within the City limits. When the City built Clifton Estate, and expanded its boundary, there was a land swap and Forest moved - so to speak - to County.

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I knew Tom Fletcher too. Nice man. I never could afford one of his decks.

The problem is that abbreviations are rife on the Internet and if you're trying to take them on then you're wasting your time. I don't like things like 'IMHO' or SWMBO etc I would think they came about as text speech when inputting a large volume of text was diffuclt and the length of messages restricted. If the company name is Nottingham Analog then there isn't really a satisfactory abreiviation. It's not simply a matter of if its City or County. Nottingham is part of the name. I think you just have to grit your teeth and live with it.

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The allocation of postcodes depended originally on the location of the automated sorting offices where mail would be taken to / distributed from. Around this part of the UK they include:

Nottingham (NG)

Peterborough (PE)

Sheffield (S)

Norwich (NR)

Northampton (NN)

Birmingham (B)

Wolverhampton (WV)

The following no longer have automated sorting offices (though obviously the postcodes didn't change):

Derby (DE)

Doncaster (DN)

Hull (HU)

Stoke on Trent (ST)

Leicester (LE)

Coventry (CV)

I don't think there was ever one in Lincolnshire.

Separately, whilst not a follower of any particular football club, I am a little irritated if I hear or read NOTTS Forest.

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Whilst being a Nottingham lad from Hyson Green my parents live in Selston, hence I speak to many from that area. I still tell my parents that I am going down tahn, although its much like town now as I dont have much of a Notts accent now. None of them say they are going down tahn, always down Notts. I have heard on the tram at Hucknall people going down tahn. Possibly people formerly from the city are going to Hucknall to live.

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