12 Jan 2026 18:06:40
Mvred, I remember staying in Mansfield for the sheep game (controversial on here ??) jolly the punks idea. Bridleways guest house. I do away trips a lot me and my mate or the yank. And I loved that place. Area nice as well. Breakfast 2nd to none, salmon and poached eggs. Very nice ? and amazing weekend ? jolly still doing well btw bless him.
12 Jan 2026 19:07:00
Think I've said before on here, on my drive back I passed a colliery. Just an amazing hit in the face for me, like a piece of art. Yet haunted. You know when ya can see the hard working lives and controversial history.
Was like BANG straight in the face. Quite emotional actually. I dunno, I know I know lot of ya think I'm losing it. Just weird though.
12 Jan 2026 20:01:07
You're not loosing it Bowie I know just how you feel, I was over in Scunthorpe a while ago and passed the steel works. My wife wondered why I pulled up outside so I told her that back in the early seventies I was working as a plater welder at a big engineering workshop in lowdham, we built most of that steel works.
quite strange looking at something that I had a hand in still standing. mind you probably be the death of me after all that asbestos we inhaled, but still good to see it.
12 Jan 2026 21:11:46
Thanks vale bud. Great reply ?.
13 Jan 2026 00:09:15
Bowie, it was probably Clipstone Colliery headstocks you saw. The pit shut years ago but they're still there, standing proud. There must of been easily ten coal mines in the mansfield area, a thriving town, money in your pocket good times.
Replaced by minimum wage warehouses. Anyway, heading towards politics, so I'll leave that.
Good to hear Jolly is ok, i don't think there has ever been a bloke banned and reinstated more times than him on this site.
13 Jan 2026 01:06:44
Thank you for that mvred bud, and yeah he was a legend jolly ?.
13 Jan 2026 10:27:33
Coincidence MV? I was born in Mansfield and I spent a grumpy adolescence looking out of my bedroom window at Forest Town or Crown Farm slag heap, as I called it. Looked like Everest when the snow fell! Golf Course nearby as well I think.
13 Jan 2026 16:06:05
Pit tip not there anymore Norfolk, it got took away years ago. It did look like a ski slope, very strange shape. You never know we both might of been in Clippo welfare on a Sunday night, back in the day.