Broadsides – A collection of bits and pieces
"Unprovided with original learning, uninformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a blog”
There’s this school in Bingham. The Toot Hill comprehensive school. Popular with the children of a large number of Nottingham commuters that have chosen to settle in this dormitory village, more of a town these days, set halfway between Nottingham and Newark, just off the old Roman Road known as the Fosse way, or now,... Continue Reading →
I lived up Sneinton way. The Union office was up in Sherwood Rise . Driving to work took me across the St. Anns estate and up Curzon Street, near the Victoria Shopping Centre,. Curzon Street, at that time was just an open space of derelict buildings, the last remains of the St. Anns slum clearance... Continue Reading →
In the bowels of the old Shire hall worked the unseen unsung servants that kept the ancient complex clean and who would break their backs shovelling coke into the great boilers deep in the cellars that warmed the courts and offices and public spaces of the busy crowded and noble building. Low paid and of... Continue Reading →
Broadsides - A collection of bits and pieces 