I recall as a child watching the diggers from my grandparents back bedroom window on Alfreton Road. Then when it was opened the Sunday Afternoon trip to Leicester Forest East services to the posh wastress service restaurant on the bridge.
@rockfan32994 жыл бұрын
The Bridge construction is Kirkby Lane, I didn't see Brookhill Lane on the video.
@Jonnyweareten4 жыл бұрын
@Rock Fan. is the house shown on left at 5:25: still there? if so can you tell me exactly where it is?
@rockfan32994 жыл бұрын
@@Jonnyweareten www.google.com/maps/place/Pinxton,+Nottingham/@53.0928021,-1.3060932,180a,35y,9.64h/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x48799483abecdf63:0x9b61b1d0c31411c3!8m2!3d53.091157!4d-1.322114 but I don't see the old cottage
@Jonnyweareten4 жыл бұрын
@@rockfan3299 Thanks
@ThePanzer62 жыл бұрын
A lot less traffic on the roads back then.
@lostpilgrimmedia_multimedia8 ай бұрын
Another cool little video
@ObviousSchism3 жыл бұрын
It's a calculator - but it's made from bamboo!
@nilsdesperandum69087 ай бұрын
What was the music used on this video
@201220177 ай бұрын
Light Expance by the Unicorn Heads.
@Andrewjg_893 жыл бұрын
So apparently the M1 motorway would of destroyed the village of Pinxton. And on the borders of Nottinghamshire. And not far from South Yorkshire.
@jamesecroucher3 жыл бұрын
“Would of” ?
@Slate-writer9 ай бұрын
Pinxton hasn't gone anywhere....
@stevekaye5536 Жыл бұрын
The best thing about Spring 1965, is that I was born - Steve Hammond Kaye - amazing author:
@harrymartin16394 жыл бұрын
Some of the so called wide Boys who contracted for the work did low believing there was very much coal at relatively shallow depth which the NCB would pay them a good price for. However all they found was a number of empty Bell shaped cavities form wheres the Old Bell Pit miners and mined the coal many years earlier.