OneGuyFromBarlick

Baby fly press for franking letters?

Nice lining on the castings.

Wild girls in knee-skirts http://glynde.info/history/paper.php?id=56

Very addictive.
I also shelled out for the DNA spit test which put the 84 third cousin matches in a close spread to where I think my ancestors came from.
A couple have emailed and one has spotted an error in one of my lines which has saved me a lot of grief and opened up new directions of research.

Ethel Armstrong finally retiring from the NHS:
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/hea ... -70-years/

My mum started training as a nurse the year before the NHS started up but retired in the 80s when my Dad moved to Spain.

Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi were having dinner one night. Obi-Wan looked askance at Luke when he began eating his meal with his hands, being messy and getting food everywhere. He looks hard at Luke and says, "Use the forks, Luke." When I saw my first strands of grey hair a few weeks ...

After Derby corporation bought out the horse drawn tram company in 1899, they set up an electric tram system which ran until 1932 when it was replaced by electric trolley buses. Tram no 1 is in Crich museum. The system included a power station next door to the Silk Mill. The trams reached our hill t...

My mum lives near Crich tramway museum. We went to a wartime reenactment day there with lots of folk in 40s costume and actors playing spivs, police, Churchill etc. Lots of trams and military vehicles. My mum had been a teenager in Kent during the Battle of Britain. She'd said she wanted to hear a S...

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: "Does this taste funny to you?" Q: Why can't you tell when a pterodactyl is using the toilet? A: Because the P is silent. A physicist, a mathematician and an engineer were each asked to establish the volume of a red rubber ball. The ...

Yes definitely better with photos.
http://ltp2013.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/ ... c1911138b4

I 'll have look and see. May have the images too.

Belated request as I've only just started reading this but what is a duck lamp used to check chimney leakage.
Also what is a stink lamp.
TIA

I used to think modern architecture was unimaginative until I went round Chicago on an open-top bus with a guide interested in buildings.
Now I think it's down to the vision and budget of the person who's commissioning it.
There were plenty of ugly and impractical building put up by the Victorians.

You scrub up well for the photographer. Very much farming gentry in that suit & hat.

I have a Sheffield steel one and a homemade strop of drive belting glued to a board. Never tried shaving with it but, when I used to visit Spain regularly, the Spanish lady hairdresser I regularly went to used to clean out the hairs from my ears with the corner tip of a cut throat. I was always read...

Double Davy
That's not a knot I remember from my days in the Boy Scouts.

A man rushed into a busy doctor's office and shouted, "Doctor! You have to see me now! I think I'm shrinking!" The doctor calmly responded, "Now, settle down. You'll just have to be a little patient." My wife is getting angry because I won't stop doing my flamingo impression. I'v...

I slipped 'Jotul wood burner' into ebay.
Amazing what you can still buy.

We had a pump from a 'reputable German maker'. Years later we had to remove the cover for an unrelated fault and discovered the pressure was retained by seven of eight studs. The other one had a broken tap ground off flush with a fake part-stud and nut held by adhesive. Naughty fitters.

Don't know why but I was expecting a punchline of "Some monk chanted evening".


Grammatical history: Which Tyler and the Pedants' Revolt

Also an interesting piece in the BBC magazine about the dominance of American English: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170904-how-americanisms-are-killing-the-english-language I didn't know that Americans hadn't heard of the term fortnight. I work for an American company and they pay me fortnight...

What type of bearing you use depends on what you're trying to achieve and what you're willing to pay. Rolling bearings have much lower running friction (about 1/2 to 1/3) and starting friction (1/5 to 1/30) than sleeve bearings and bicycle makers were early adopters back in Victorian times. Likewise...

Stanley used a term I had to Google - Jacob's Join. In Derby we'd probably call this a Fuddle. Also we call alleyways & ginnels a jitty. Other terms that vary round the country: Sandwich bread rolls we call cobs not baps or barmcakes or breadcakes. And do you mash stew, steep etc your tea - we h...

Please excuse a newbie's ignorance but who is Bob?

I enjoy these little dits.

I'd like to see returnable deposits come back for tins and bottles.

After a twenty year gap I'm working up my family lines on Ancestry. Converting the scribbled paper.
It's a lot easier with computers than microfilm records but I'm glad I got the oral history while it was available.
Central Yorkshire and Derbyshire on my dad's side and Kent on my mother's.