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Thanks to all for your contributions but a very special thanks to you OISIN.....brilliant !!!! I will send show this to my colleague who I am certain will appreciate this and it should give him some impetus for his own van restoration....

I know this may be a strange request, but is there anyone that might have tucked away an old photo showing a Maypole or Perks  Morris 'J' type van, I know that no one would have taken a dedicated photo of one of these but there may be one lurking in the background of a photo taken in...

My grandad that always worked in town always said....Ya Moant....for you mustn't, either one was ' airey one'..... but nobody as yet has said....a face as lung as Livery Street....so I'll add that.

Well  I live on the south coast now and we have a company called Covers.....and they call it :tickedoff:  Co-vers,  they call a Bath Plug.. ;D..a Barth Plag, a  Puppy is a Poppy :idiot2:, and with all their southern education.....they still don't know what a Bob Owler is ;).........a...

It does in fact seem to be a term used by us Midlanders, from about Oxford downwards seems to be the used term 'Roundabouts'...I live in Sussex...BUT HEY LISTEN.......on the Brighton to Worthing road....they have new signs up that advise.....NEW TRAFFIC ISLANDS IN USE SHORTLY............so how...

Ganzi...Gansey !!! I think you will find it originates from the Irish community....from my schooldays in Selly Oak with so many Irish school pals...they all called their football jerseys ....Ganseys....I'm going back to late 1940's...I don't wish to admit going back any further !!!! as I've...

Please is there anyone that has access to the 1861 census for Birmingham....I would like to know what address a John Henry Carrington aged 8 born in Loughborough was residing at....and where a Sarah Vale (nee Carrington) his sister also born in Loughborough aged about 24....so very many...

I am seeking information on Sarah Vale possibly nee Carrington, born Loughborough 1837 and a gt aunt, she appears to have married a Mr ??? Vale at sometime possibly c1857 and may have had 3 sons,she lived in Little King St.1881 with son Henry 17, also she had a son John Stutley Vale bn 1859.and...