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ian

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2200 on: 08 July, 2020, 08:12:41 pm »
Quote from: pcolbeck on 08 July, 2020, 03:48:30 pm
What we also tend to forget  is that those old buildings we see around us now are the ones that were built well enough to survive. There was plenty of shoddy building in the past, Georgian and Victorian speculative builders threw loads of stuff up that was really rubbish often not even bothering with foundations. The term "jerry built" was an early Victorian one to describe such housing. It took the 1875 public heath act which imposed regulation on standards of house building to start to sort it out.

True enough, the shit stuff has fallen down.

That said, I think the 1945 pre-fabs in Catford (Excalibur Estate) only recently met their demise.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2201 on: 09 July, 2020, 09:20:32 am »
My sister lived in a 'test' post war house for a number of years.  Each of the houses in her road had a slightly different design but the common factor was concrete build with a flat roof.

Apart from the flat roof (which is never a good idea in a country with so much rain) the houses, which had been very much 'thrown together' as prototypes, are still going strong.
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andrewc

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2202 on: 11 July, 2020, 08:10:45 pm »
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/11/liverpool-gangs-dominate-gun-and-drugs-trade-outside-london


My home city in the news again.  I though we wanted swashbuckling entrepreneurial businessmen in our new post Brexshit 2nd Elizabethan  age ? 


ISTR reading something that said the drugs business in the SE & London was now mainly controlled by Albanians,  but that they didn't venture oop north....
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2203 on: 15 July, 2020, 12:08:59 am »
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andrewc

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2204 on: 27 July, 2020, 12:32:26 pm »
Oh I say!  Nice gaff!     https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/51322369


It's not quite what I'd usually think of as a terrace though......
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2205 on: 27 July, 2020, 01:15:27 pm »
Quote from: andrewc on 27 July, 2020, 12:32:26 pm
Oh I say!  Nice gaff!     https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/51322369


It's not quite what I'd usually think of as a terrace though......

I like the stairs and the big kitchen... Bit big for just me tho... Also in the wrong country... But year, interesting gaff!

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2206 on: 27 July, 2020, 01:31:12 pm »
Handy for NCN810 as well.  https://www.sustrans.org.uk/find-a-route-on-the-national-cycle-network/route-810/   


I'd check sea level rise predictions before putting a deposit down though....
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2207 on: 11 August, 2020, 10:59:14 am »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2208 on: 11 August, 2020, 11:43:23 am »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2209 on: 11 August, 2020, 05:09:05 pm »
D's brother lives in Horsham...
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2210 on: 18 August, 2020, 10:15:54 am »
Not the sort of news you'd expect from Nottinghamshire...


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Penguin waddling in Broxtowe picked up by police

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-53798757
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2211 on: 18 August, 2020, 02:18:25 pm »
Quote from: Guy on 18 August, 2020, 10:15:54 am
Not the sort of news you'd expect from Nottinghamshire...


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Penguin waddling in Broxtowe picked up by police

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-53798757

On what offense...

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2212 on: 18 August, 2020, 02:20:08 pm »
Quote from: quixoticgeek on 18 August, 2020, 02:18:25 pm
Quote from: Guy on 18 August, 2020, 10:15:54 am
Not the sort of news you'd expect from Nottinghamshire...


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Penguin waddling in Broxtowe picked up by police

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-53798757

On what offense...

They thought it was a swan.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2213 on: 18 August, 2020, 03:12:10 pm »
Quote from: quixoticgeek on 18 August, 2020, 02:18:25 pm
Quote from: Guy on 18 August, 2020, 10:15:54 am
Not the sort of news you'd expect from Nottinghamshire...


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Penguin waddling in Broxtowe picked up by police

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-53798757

On what offense...

J

Being black, That's usually enough.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2214 on: 19 August, 2020, 12:00:59 am »
Quote from: quixoticgeek on 18 August, 2020, 02:18:25 pm
Quote from: Guy on 18 August, 2020, 10:15:54 am
Not the sort of news you'd expect from Nottinghamshire...


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Penguin waddling in Broxtowe picked up by police

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-53798757

On what offense...

J

Maybe it was waddling in a loud shirt with an offensive wife.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2215 on: 19 August, 2020, 08:01:45 am »
Do we have a "Motorised Lunatics" thread?


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A man who set a land speed record with a motorised shed believes he has set a new record by travelling at 44.6mph (77kph) behind a wheelbarrow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-53809435

The shed's pretty cool, too.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2216 on: 19 August, 2020, 08:26:38 am »
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Mr Nicks said plans for his next invention were "really bonkers" but he has not disclosed the details yet.
He'd fit in well here...
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Wobbly John

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2217 on: 19 August, 2020, 04:46:37 pm »

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Penguin waddling in Broxtowe P, P, P, picked up by police

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-53798757
FTFY...  ;)
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2218 on: 20 August, 2020, 11:27:20 pm »
IndyRef2 happened and I missed it  ::-)


grauniad by The Pingus, on Flickr
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2219 on: 23 August, 2020, 10:42:08 am »
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2220 on: 25 August, 2020, 03:23:22 pm »

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/man-a37-wearing-paper-bag-4455442

Good, but not quite as wild as the shed man (see a page or two back).
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2221 on: 04 September, 2020, 09:52:14 pm »
Not a rowie.

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2222 on: 13 September, 2020, 05:24:46 pm »
Nuclear submarine secretly based underneath M32 in Bristol. Or something.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/watch-moment-unmarked-nuclear-convoy-4510383
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andrewc

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2223 on: 13 September, 2020, 09:26:06 pm »
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/56133534?search_identifier=1a849372718a5758be0ce8ea1596f80a


Another nice place, with a bit of history.   Can we do a forum group buy & turn it into a cycling based commune....?
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2224 on: 16 September, 2020, 11:19:23 am »
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