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I have emailed to enquire so if I ever get an answer (danger of regional variations but we'll see...) I'll let you know. :)

Thank you very much

No - and I must go there - thank you!

this glossary is fantastic, thank you

Battledore - A wooden paddle used to flatten portions of a bottle as it is being hand blown (Hunter 1950). - I think this is a different paddle!

Thank you all for your replies. I'm still not sure what the right name is but will keep searching!

Hello everyone - does anyone please know what you call the long wooden paddle like thing that glass was put on to be carried about to and from furnaces etc? A bit like the thing they use to put pizzas in an oven. I'm writing about Chance Bros and wonder if they had a particular name? Thank you...

A question for anyone who knows about glass making please! Does anyone know the name of the thing you carry glass around on, say to the Lehr/annealing over - a rod with a flat ?wooden part on the end - a bit like you would use for a pizza oven? I would be very happy to learn this if anyone...

Only 4 months late but thank you for the good wishes!

I've been looking all through here with a question - does anyone know about the air raid shelter for the markets in town? I have read something where the market shelter was referred to but wonder if it was another surface shelter (and where?) or whether there were cellars. Anyone know? All best...

Hello Chris. Many apologies for not replying sooner - apart from the feeble excuse of trying to move house at the moment I also must have missed an alert about this. I massively appreciate all the research and thought you have put into this. I am used to working with fragments a lot of the time...

Hi Chris, Thanks for the quick reply. I understand about the HG hours - actually the other info would also be useful. I am writing about the 1940s at present. Annie

Did anyone have a relative in the Cadburys Home Guard Unit? Also does anyone know the times that shifts began and ended. Did anyone ever get any sleep?! All best wishes, Annie

Malcolm - sorry I've only just seen this. Thanks for the offer. You;re right, I don't need it just now - but you never know in future! Thanks for getting in touch and best wishes, Annie

Thank you - it's not so much the history of the limbs which is reasonably easy to come by, it's wondering about people who were really not well off accessing anything and how and where that might be. I guess I'll have to get on to Selly Oak again as they've been there ages working on...

Thank you - another big help :)

Hello Lady P - that was very quick, thank you for your reply. I'll certainly look into that. All best, Annie

Can anyone help me with this? I had contact with someone at the prosthetics department at Selly Oak but they have so far not seemed keen to be any help... I am wondering if anyone knows by chance, about the fitting of artificial limbs way back to about 1900 - 1910. I know this developed a lot...

Malcolm - sorry I have not been on here for a while. Thank you for replying. I often get replies long after I've finished - c'est la vie I suppose. Thank you anyway - Annie

Thank you so much Eric - perfect. Just what I needed. All best, Annie