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Yes, the best policy is 100% to phone the company direct and to leave the possible scam unanswered. That way you have responded to the call, if it was actually a legitimate one.

I received another message last night. Royal Mail: Your package has arrived at the warehouse but cannot be delivered due to incomplete address details please open the link to view ..... Royal Mail wishes you a great day! How fortunate that my package albeit having an incomplete address, did...

The Mayfair:

Sad to see Hirons go. I well remember their shop on Slade Road at Stockland Green.

I read over the weekend that the Times science editor recently received a scam Royal Mail text explaining that a delivery had failed and clicked on it (when his mind was elsewhere), and when asked for the small delivery fee, paid it. This is what happened when he was in the process of reporting...

Sadly, Aston Villa's Charlie Aitken passed away yesterday, aged 81. I thought Charlie would always be there, he was ever present at left back when I was a young lad standing by the railings at the foot of the Holte End, all the way through to my late teens. He was with us through the lows of...

I was there that day. :eek: I remember my friend and I were late getting to the match and arrived at our normal spot behind the goal at the Holte End 5 minutes before kick off. Usually there were about twenty to thirty young chaps that we knew well in the same place, but this time there was only...

The shirt below seems similar. It is a photograph taken of one of the 1911 Bromsgrove School Rugby team (Spencer Travers). Oxford University do use RFC on their caps (see below) including those awarded to their sporting blues. I had initially thought he might have been team captain of...

Could it possibly be Worcester College Oxford? Their badge is:

I had thought that too. The cap letters would be a real clue, but I can't quite make them out. I thought the last three would be RFC (Rugby Football Club) and the first might well be O (Old).

They certainly did. I think this was our best away win in Europe since 1981, when we beat Dynamo Berlin 2-1. :grinning:

Here is another photograph showing the gymnasium at Villa Park when in use Viv, from a 1962 programme:

I found this yesterday, not quite the Silver Blades was it? :)

Viv, I think that this picture was taken outside the former club offices, that were on the right of the Witton End and beside the old Trinity Road Stand (as shown in the picture below), until those buildings were demolished in 1981. The former club offices, a gymnasium and a player's recreation...

I can help you there: Back (left to right): Tommy Lyons, Arthur Layton, J. Hogan, Billy George, Arthur Cartlidge, Alfred Freddie Miles, John Kearns, John Grierson (trainer). Second: George B. Ramsay (Secretary), P. W. M. Bate (Club Director), John Devey (Club Director), F. Cooper (Vice...

I'm not sure that it was. I thought at first it might be the side of the old Trinity Road Stand, but that wasn't built then. Villa Park as it was back then, is shown below (I will see if I can find out where that photograph was taken tomorrow):

No, Francis Burns :). Jimmy Rimmer was in goal for them and he later won the League title and European Cup with us though.

I feel there is and should be a place for all types of history. They should be seen as a part of the whole subject and shouldn't be in competition with each other. There is a place for the study of the Civil War for example alongside the study of social and economic history. Local history has...

Bobby is reunited with his brother Jack, Sir Alf and he has joined those World Cup winners that preceded him, leaving just Sir Geoff with us. What a fine player he was and what a privilege it was to have seen him play both live and on television. What a proud moment that England football team...