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Dave, It looks like no mention of "Lote" anywhere, as Astoness says. However you did make a brief mention of "Lotes" as follows: Kingstanding My brother would remember all of them - I'll get him to respond - mind you - you do say late 50's - we moved from 123 Hurlingham (next to the Lotes) in...

Thanks for unearthing that, Lyn. How do such wonderful things come to be buried and forgotten about, even with our well-structured site? We almost need a determined effort to comb through some of the older threads and "bump" them up, Facebook style. Great credit to the gentleman concerned: he...

Perishing things are now bringing their mates. "Hey, try over here - not everything's squirrel-proof. Especially fatballs. You can do the silly gymnastics if you're really that mad on peanuts. Too much like hard work for me. I'll just sit in comfort on the top of the trellis. And munch".

I suspect that whatever aircraft type they were working on, it would be one which was fairly quickly superseded by more modern types. We are talking here mainly about WW1 technology - obviously still around and probably used for quite a long period in some aircraft designs, for example for tail...

Disappointing! It's worth noting that, as the war progressed, suitable O/Rs and NCOs WERE commissioned. Suspect G C Coughlin was one of these - he doesn't appear in the first Officers List of February 1941. Whereas A.J. Walker, M.M. does. But not in the 46th Warwickshire. He was, in 1941...

Very sorry not to have remembered, Biscayne, and haven't had the opportunity of checking emails from that time. So, it looks as though all this might be new to Eric. What you have provided looks as though it will be very useful. I'll have a good look into it just as soon as I can. Chris

Thanks, Biscayne. I have reminded myself that there is, also there, further information and an image of Lt. Walker. I can't check at the moment where that information originally came from. It was certainly provided to me by a grandson. Chris

The site is perfectly safe and should normally allow satisfactory viewing. (It's mine!) It seems as those names have been lurking in the staffshomeguard website for a long time. Names will normally be found by using the site Search function there; but not unfortunately when they are tucked away...

We are all groping around for causes and for solutions, until we establish what precisely has happened. So far no one has been entirely right and no one wrong. We may still stumble on an answer/workaround applicable to everyone - although I have my doubts about that. There has to be a strong...

You may be right, aston lad - but it doesn't seem to explain why, suddenly and apparently simultaneously, a number of members have started to have an identical problem - even when using different browsers and operating systems. We have asked Warren if he can apply his expertise and experience...

Thanks, Lyn. So the problem covers both Chrome and Edge.... If we want to get Warren to investigate this - and we need to as even using the workaround the situation isn't wholly satusfactory - we badly need more examples which might start to show some pattern. Chris

Thank you to RRJ for giving us a workaround for this new problem which a few members seem to have encountered. Has anyone else had a problem? If so, please let us know here. Please at the same time advise browser being used and also type of device. Chris

Welcome to the Forum, David. And thanks for the interesting question. I'm confident it will spark off thoughts amongst members. Here's Auden's 1937 work in full: As I walked out one evening Walking down Bristol Street The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat And down by the...

It's a rotten start to the New Year, for me. Just look at this lot. They've filled the tree. What do they know that I don't? Even if some of them are pretending not to look at me, I know they are, all of them. I don't like it..... Chris

Happy New Year to everyone and thanks for your support, contributions and fellowship. Chris

Chris - It might be worthwhile to do a BARRA search on immediately adjoining roads, as well. That might give a clue on date. BARRA website: https://database.birminghamairraids.co.uk/ Chris

Thanks for that, Pedrocut, Whatever our problems now, we can have no comprehension whatsoever of the feelings every parent must have had who were directly caught up in all this or were just being reminded about what was going on by reading the paper. It must have seemed that the world had been...

A Happy Christmas to everyone from me, small friend and neighbour's cat. (Streetly ca. 1942) Chris

(A MEMORY FROM EXACTLY 80 YEARS AGO) Thursday December 23rd. It's Christmas again - yippee! - the day after tomorrow. Saturday. Because you might get bored if there's nothing much on the wireless and you haven't been given the latest Biggles book or the 1944 Rupert Annual AND so you might...

I've just been reading the story of the unfortunate Austin Brown/Blind Jack and the wonderful efforts made by various members of this Forum to identify him and his family. Remarkable, considering how common the surname must be. I'd just like to mention the problems my elder brother had in the...