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The Station Master at York demonstrates that it was a two hat job! From "This Is York"

Not a Spitfire man, but relatively local, from Lichfield.

I ask because you originally said 'it was totally black', which could be the case if it had been silver-plated brass. Let's see what the other side reveals!

Isn't it over-polished silver plateware?

That brings back memories of 'winding up' someone at work thirty years ago! I told him that I had been thinking of taking up golf, (I knew that he played a bit), and that I had taken some advice for beginners which was that a 'number 9 iron' was a good club to start off with. My colleague...

Possible The Greet Inn?

You will probably remember your most senior junior school teacher wearing one of these on his tweed jacket lapel.

It might be useful to check the 1939 Register for Albert Palmer, if nothing else to be sure that his actual occupation agrees with his daughter's memory.

It is a truism that children don't change. Every parent soon discovers that the cardboard box is more attractive to the young child than the contents. It is the adults that think that what is presented to children has to be updated. A few bright plastic balls may get more children playing but it...

An interesting problem as in many ways 'Google wasn't our friend'! Calling a road 'Avenue Road' hardly helped, and 'Birmingham Wheel' links to far too many references to Ferris wheels. What did it refer to anyway in the original article? A pub? A factory? A place for go-karting? First step...

I think 'Midland Wheel' as opposed to 'Birmingham Wheel' is most likely. The book In and Around Aston Through Time by Ted Rudge has the following:- The original newspaper article has, at the foot, a photo with a caption saying "..A group photo in the playground of St Marys, which stood...

It looks like you are trying to produce some sort of Paternal Ancestry Tree. I can't see anyway of doing that directly with FTM. I had a look at FTM 2008 (yuk!) and it doesn't seem to be able to do it either. What you could do is to create a blank tree using a wordprocessor or image editing...

In 1940 Brian David Williams, aged 5, was able, dispassionately, to write the following:- TUESDAY 19th NOVEMBER A terrible raid We had a terrible Air Raid last night and sheltered under the stairs again. We never go down the dug-out in the garden because it is wet. This is the 42nd raid on...

The Birmingham Air Raids Rememberance Association lists only one casualty for 19/11/1940 living in Vera Road, George Fletcher, at No. 78. They have no record to confirm if he received fatal injuries.

You can certainly add baptism and death details, just select the type of tree that you want and go to Contents, Items to include in each box. There is a pick list on the left. Any of those items can be added to the box by clicking on the > mark (or removed using <) and then moved up or down the...

Actually I don't find the family tree charts all that useful and depending on your own family they can become unwieldy, pushing siblings apart if there are lots of marriages. My preferred chart is found under View, Reports, Outline Descendant, that can always be made to fit A4 pages and...

I read the pre-edited comment and wondered what you meant, Alles is klar. History ought to be an objective study of the past and while the opinion of the actors is invaluable it is only a sub-set of the truth. That is why I used the word 'dispassionate' to signal the difference. People...

We went through the same process a few months ago with my sister's laptop. We had ignored the earlier offers by Microsoft to push Windows 10 at us as the compatibility check at the time indicated a minor problem, however the recent threats of loss of support made us think again. I discovered...

The Ancestor Tree report will show the ancestors of the highlighted person. The green arrow button is a quick way to get back to where you were before but there are many other ways of moving around your tree. I think you will find that playing around with the various format/ type sizes etc...

Taking a dispassionate view, (easier done at this point in time), it does illustrate how ineffective bombing was in WW2. A bomb like the one used here might only destroy a couple of dwellings and perhaps kill no-one yet the bomber and its crew might not have returned from its mission, costing...