katyjay 5,091 Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 Forgiven. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 No problem guys - you can still buy Mamod steam engines - made in England too! I bet, if you called them, you could buy a replacement boiler! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 RWK, I tried accessing the board from Turkey with an Ipod, Nightmare! You can still buy Mamod stuff? Surely not! Modern kids WOULD blow themselves up! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 Somebody has to win those Darwin Awards! !rotfl! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 860 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Amazingly, Mamod are alive and well and still making their products in the UK rather than China, or so they say. They must be the last of the old school of 1950's 'Toys for Boys', Meccano is now French, Hornby and Airfix have gone through so many changes, but Mamod seem to have soldiered on, perhaps they rely on people like my brother, who aquired their steamroller one Xmas, maybe it turned into an adult thing of memories and saved the company, they are pretty unique after all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Does anyone remember a white christmas? (no racist jokes please!) I don't, nearest I got was one boxing day night, had stopped at granma's on Noel Street then gone in Carlton Hotel with dad, would have been pre 1959, walking back up North Gate at what seemed very late to me but prob before midnight all the snow was untouched not a tyre mark or footprint in it, all was silent too until we got to I think Palm Street where some teenagers were letting off fireworks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 1971 was a very white Christmas, snow falling very heavily all day. I had my first bike and it was tremendous fun trying to ride it in a blizzard!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 860 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 We spent Xmas at a village up in the mountains near Camarthen in 1993, the entire Nottingham branch of the family came down and we rented the old rectory and it's converted barn. It was snowing when I arrived and it turned into a blizzard on Xmas eve. Xmas morning and all the kids looked out the window, saw really deep snow and were dumbfounded. Forget the presents, they were sledging down the hill, building snowmen and having snowball fights, this was what Xmas is all about. I remember snow in years past, but apart from Edwinstowe in 1957, this was something else. I recall 71 Beefsteak, we went on the razzle around town on Xmas eve, ending up crashing a club. There was a hell of a blizzard that night, we had a massive snowball fight with a bunch of Greabos on Ilkeston Road and ended up carrying each other back home to Radford and Wollaton, we were so pissed we could hardly stand up, good old boys they were, talk about a good laugh, one of those great moments in life. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Probably was 1957 then? think 1972 I borrowed my uncles push bike to cycle to Stanton for 6am start christmas day, got a lift home (carrying old sit up and beg bike) on back of a 700cc Royal Enfield Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted December 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 think 1980 or 81 was a snowy one in nottingham on xmas night ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 1981 was very - very cold, first-born's first Christmas, ice inside the house windows etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 After the most extensive research (5 mins in Wikipedia!) The best I can ascertain is that :- Between 1950 and 2006 , Birmingham has had 20% white christmas's whatever that means , which years ?, it doesn't say!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas#White_Christmases_in_the_United_Kingdom Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,646 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 It was snowing when we got married, Christmas eve, Gretna Green, 1998' the snow was going sideways in the strong northerly "gale" and it was the coldest I have ever known, nice roaring fire in the Gretna hotel though Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 It's snowing here right now! I would much prefer it was snowing THERE, and not here! Took me 45 minutes to drive 12 miles this morning! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 You've got what we had on Monday, Eric. It snowed a blizzard for 24 hrs and we finished up with 20 inches of snow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 860 Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Well, we can't compare to that Katyjay, but the Met Office are predicting snow in the north and east of the UK next week, starting down here on monday, no doubt that will mean a couple of inches of snow that will bring the country to a standstill as it did last February. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 To our American friends: A balmy 65 here in GA yesterday. Close to freezing overnight. Now if it would just stop raining for a while we could trade in our webbed feet. You could always move to Atlanta if you can stand the +%#$@*!!!! traffic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 We had several forecasts of snow, but just got bloody bitterly cold weather. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Had to defrost the car this morning!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 860 Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Just nipped up to Saisburies and back in thick fog!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 Just nipped up to Saisburies and back in thick fog!!! Brings back memories of those "pea souper" type fogs of the fifties and sixties. Often around Christmas. Couldn't see your hand in front of your face. Buses stopped running etc. They were no fun. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stan 386 Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 Snow what is this snow? We have just had the warmest November on record (well over 7 days of temp. over 102F-39 C ) and we still have the summer to come!!(December-Feb.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 Yes, we've alot to be thankful for Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted December 13, 2009 Report Share Posted December 13, 2009 We always had a home made Christmas pudding, complete with money in it. Watch your teeth! It was silver threepenny bits when I was little, then sixpences after that. Christmas cake always had a frilled paper band around it, with a Christmas tree, robin, holly etc stuck in the top. I used to pick the marzipan out from under the icing, as I didn't like the texture. Now, I could eat the whole block! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted December 13, 2009 Report Share Posted December 13, 2009 We had several forecasts of snow, but just got bloody bitterly cold weather. I remember the time when the fire place in our house at Aspley heated a cast iron oven at the side. Our 'hot water bottle' was the shelf from this oven wrapped in a towel. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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