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An old friend of mine, whose parents drank a lot and also smoked their heads off used to go home from school to lard on a sandwich with a pinch of salt to give it flavour. Sounds disgusting to me, but I guess she and her many sisters were hungry so they just ate it and presumably thought...

Sue, I had a similar problem some years ago in Cheltenham, and the library gave me a copy of a page from an annuaire (the book the post office used for delivering mail - so they had the right person). For instance 2, Alfred Place (or terrace) would be No 2 of a particular row of houses, rather...

Oh Dek I am sorry, I must have read the post wrongly, I thought you meant now. Should have gone to specsavers, obviously!

The Swallow Riancoat building is not a warehouse, it's Crown Apartments. Midland Bank are on the opposite corner. I have a drawing somewhere by Ron 'Smudge' Smith, that he gave me of the Swallow building, if I can find it I will post it.

Has anyone ever seen a photo of Chequers Walk? One of my relatives were there around 1880, but I have never seen a photo. I think it was only a tiny place.

My first car was a beige eight year old mini, which I had in May 1976 - SAL 694F. She took me loads of places and I really enjoyed her like no other car. I suppose it's always the same with your first one. Somewhere I have a photo, but I have not got a clue where.

Stephen I still think in feet and inches, pints and pounds and ounces, but I use both decimal and imperial measurements. It depends on what recipe, for instance I am using, and at the moment I am knitting, but using the inches instructions rather than the centimetres. I think that European...

Unless, Lyn, the person I asked was not aware of the situation and just gave me the form anyway. Just a genral form asking for closed files to be opened. This has only just occurred to me.

Lyn, I was told differently. I wanted to find out about when one of my family died there in 1915, I had a form to fill in as the records are closed for 100 years. I have never followed it up for various reasons, but I still have the form, duly filled in. Not touched that line for a long time...

That's brilliant Lyn, well done. All hope is not yet lost then.

I agree with you Sue about it being a scam - it was well known that in Spain food and drink was cheap (that was the birth of the lager lout) but it's not the same now, food and drink abroad are about the same as in England. I don't think there is such a thing as a cheap holiday any more.

Here you are Nico - the front of the Will. I am afraid this one is just in script rather than copperplate, but the other one I had was in copperplate, at least in part.

Nico - well I am just about to go out but I will see what I can do a bit later. Do't be sad about people dying in the poor house - better than on the streets and there are many reasons that they were in there. For instance pregnant ladies used to book themselves in because the medical...

When I was at school I did what they then called 'mauscript' which was almost the same as calligraphy, but not quite. Copperplate is something quite different and fantastically ornate. I have in my possession an old Will which is written on some strange sort of paper which is very waxy, and...

I thought that originally wam, then I realised that Sheffields were the bill board owners, so that may be a false trail. I had thought that the picture would have been taken at the back of the markets for some reason. I personally don't doubt the picture is real.

Nice a Waterman is a man who sold water from a good source, as most water from wells was contaminated. I had one of those too. A copperplate writer in the family? How lovely, I just love that beautiful writing, I wish I was able to do it. It was my 3x gt grandfather who did this 'table...

Oh Dennis, you wimp! My husband is the same, believe me, but when I finally got him to have his vaccine, he sat there and chatted to the nurse and when she said it was my turn, he said 'have you done it?' - so that was an improvement. I don't bother about much at all, even operations don't...

In the 1920's, although there was no project, it was actually against the law not to have your child vaccinated - they used to come round the houses for the children, that's why my nan hid hers.

That's interesting Dennis because I thought that you only got symptoms from a live vaccine and the flu jab is not a live one. Perhaps it was coincidental? I have had one annually for a few years now, ever since I had pleurisy, but not ever had anything more than a sore arm.

Oops, I got it wrong, the cutlery was Queens, not Kings.