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What an amazing link, Cadeau. It makes fascinating reading. A great find! I should be reading my daughters a story but the development of "bearded iron wires" (Post #3, second picture) is distractingly interesting. Thank you. And to think that there's a whole museum dedicated to barbed wire is...

Lyn, I thought you may like to know that that enormous rock which can be seen right of centre in your very first posting has a name. If you look at your photograph very, very carefully, you'll notice several black, slightly swan-like, scrawny birds sitting on its top. It's called Cormorant Rock...

Ernie, Argonne is an area in the north-east of France. Clermont-en-Argonne is a small village in Argonne about 60 miles south-west of Luxembourg. David

Postie, It seems the sender had doubts about the address as well; otherwise I suppose the card would have been given a stamp and posted. David

I'm sorry, Cadeau, but I can't make your female machine gunner out in Photo 2, Post #4, unless of course the French used Joan-of-Arc tactics and disguised their lady fighters with moustaches. David

A truly wonderful collection, Ernie. Further to our conversation earlier this evening and with regard to the second picture in Post #4, the translator hasn't bothered to render the French word "mitrailleuse" into English. I think I can help because the equivalent in Italian is "mitragliatrice"...

Yes! D.

Many sincere congratulations to Dad, Mom and grandparents on this very special day for England. A Rose by any other name ....... is a Rose. Best wishes, Warren, Postie, Layla Rose's mom and gran' and also Layla Rose's other grandparents. David

OK, Ernie. Marks & Spencer opened their first shop together in 1894 in Manchester; how much would you have to have in your pocket today to have the buying power of a penny in 1894? David

Jean, I sincerely don't know if it would have come to me in the stressful circumstances of a pub quiz - let alone with the bright lights and microphones of a TV quiz show! But in the comfort of my own home - and after a delicious English Sunday lunch and a bottle of Aglianico (a delightful...

It was Slowcoach, wasn't it, Jean? David

Phil, I think that's the number of the illustration in a book or journal. The style of the two buildings is so similar that they must have been designed and/or built in the same decade. The second drawing is dated 1895; and the third shows the same house. If one looks closely at the first...

Hear, hear! David

Sorry, Lyn. I know that Thos. Walker & Son, Ltd - that makes instruments to measure how far a ship/boat has travelled, and, knowing the time taken, its speed - used to be at 58, Oxford Street. They are still trading as Thomas Walker & Son from 37-41 Bissell Street, Birmingham, B5 7HR. Could...

..... a terryb1 comment !! David

Roiters (with a Brummie accent, please), Birmingham – It has been reported that if you – as a citizen of Birmingham - still pay taxes to Birmingham City council, don’t be too worried about the financing of the new library. You will not have to pay a single penny. An agreement has been reached...

I get the impression that memory is playing a large part in our 'originality'. I imagined that all verses entered would be of the member's creation. (In the opening posting, I didn't intend "original" to mean "different"; but 'newly created by the member him- or herself' - mine was)...

As the thread "Silly Rhymes" is proving to be quite popular, is there any chance of organising a "Mary had a Little Lamb" original verse competition? Perhaps verse sent in or published on this thread could be read out at the St George's Day get-together - after all, what could possibly be more...

hello badger, The rhyme about the man that wouldn't go away is attributed to Hughes Mearns (1875-1965). db84124

Good morning Jean, If I remember correctly, it went like this: There was a little man, and he had a little gun, And his bullets were made of lead, lead, lead; He went to the brook, and saw a little duck, And shot it right through the head, head, head. ........... but then there's a second...