Baby fly press for franking letters?
Nice lining on the castings.
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- 15 Sep 2017, 11:22
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20102
- Views: 2332727
- 15 Sep 2017, 07:26
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: BOB'S BITS
- Replies: 4463
- Views: 508640
Re: BOB'S BITS
Wild girls in knee-skirts http://glynde.info/history/paper.php?id=56
- 14 Sep 2017, 19:43
- Forum: Ongoing Family Research
- Topic: Ancestry.co.uk
- Replies: 234
- Views: 95194
Re: Ancestry.co.uk
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.
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.
- 14 Sep 2017, 19:38
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7633
- Views: 862443
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
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.
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.
- 14 Sep 2017, 19:31
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4859
- Views: 567747
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
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 ...
- 14 Sep 2017, 19:17
- Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
- Topic: The Golden Age of Trams
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9426
Re: The Golden Age of Trams
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...
- 13 Sep 2017, 22:08
- Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
- Topic: The Golden Age of Trams
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9426
Re: The Golden Age of Trams
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...
- 13 Sep 2017, 11:49
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4859
- Views: 567747
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
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 ...
- 13 Sep 2017, 11:45
- Forum: Research Topics
- Topic: Newton Pickles edit
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11807
Re: Newton Pickles edit
Yes definitely better with photos.
http://ltp2013.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/ ... c1911138b4
http://ltp2013.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/ ... c1911138b4
- 13 Sep 2017, 11:39
- Forum: Research Topics
- Topic: Newton Pickles edit
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11807
Re: Newton Pickles edit
I 'll have look and see. May have the images too.
- 13 Sep 2017, 09:38
- Forum: Research Topics
- Topic: Newton Pickles edit
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11807
Re: Newton Pickles edit
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
Also what is a stink lamp.
TIA
- 11 Sep 2017, 07:09
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: Look what I came across today.
- Replies: 54
- Views: 27128
Re: Look what I came across today.
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.
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.
- 09 Sep 2017, 14:58
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 1910843
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
You scrub up well for the photographer. Very much farming gentry in that suit & hat.
- 09 Sep 2017, 13:16
- Forum: Nostalgia
- Topic: THE FLATLEY DRYER
- Replies: 5024
- Views: 625935
Re: THE FLATLEY DRYER
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...
- 09 Sep 2017, 12:45
- Forum: Amateur Radio
- Topic: Amateur Radio Homebrew (Shack Culture)
- Replies: 340
- Views: 123659
Re: Amateur Radio Homebrew (Shack Culture)
Double Davy
That's not a knot I remember from my days in the Boy Scouts.
That's not a knot I remember from my days in the Boy Scouts.
- 09 Sep 2017, 12:30
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4859
- Views: 567747
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
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...
- 09 Sep 2017, 12:22
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6900
- Views: 942749
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
I slipped 'Jotul wood burner' into ebay.
Amazing what you can still buy.
Amazing what you can still buy.
- 09 Sep 2017, 11:49
- Forum: Crafts
- Topic: SHED MATTERS 2
- Replies: 2566
- Views: 501866
Re: SHED MATTERS 2
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.
- 07 Sep 2017, 22:03
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4859
- Views: 567747
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Don't know why but I was expecting a punchline of "Some monk chanted evening".
Grammatical history: Which Tyler and the Pedants' Revolt
- 07 Sep 2017, 21:56
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3943
- Views: 595547
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
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...
- 07 Sep 2017, 21:47
- Forum: Crafts
- Topic: SHED MATTERS 2
- Replies: 2566
- Views: 501866
Re: SHED MATTERS 2
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...
- 07 Sep 2017, 17:44
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3943
- Views: 595547
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
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...
- 06 Sep 2017, 22:09
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: BOB'S BITS
- Replies: 4463
- Views: 508640
Re: BOB'S BITS
Please excuse a newbie's ignorance but who is Bob?
I enjoy these little dits.
I enjoy these little dits.
- 06 Sep 2017, 21:55
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: A STROLL IN THE PARK.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1522
Re: A STROLL IN THE PARK.
I'd like to see returnable deposits come back for tins and bottles.
- 06 Sep 2017, 21:39
- Forum: Ongoing Family Research
- Topic: Ancestry.co.uk
- Replies: 234
- Views: 95194
Re: Ancestry.co.uk
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.
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.