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The Common Room / Re: Fire Brigades 1890
« on: Sunday 25 May 25 19:04 BST (UK)  »
Irrelevantly bit not quite. Did my Fireman's Badge as a Scout many many years ago. The instructor fireman claimed their fastest call-out was 20 seconds - they were leaving on the fire appliance, blue lights going, for a practice when the call came in and was shouted from the phone in the station to the crew on the appliance..... Might be apocryphal of course

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The Common Room / Re: Trying to find a Thomas Fisher who was an Officer of the Excise in 1764
« on: Tuesday 13 May 25 12:15 BST (UK)  »
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/excise-and-inland-revenue-officers/

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Armed Forces / Re: Possible MC
« on: Sunday 11 May 25 19:03 BST (UK)  »
Thank you all. I think I can deduce who the recipient was, but there's no hope of proving it, I suppose. If I'm right he was KIA before the award was gazetted.

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Armed Forces / Possible MC
« on: Sunday 11 May 25 16:07 BST (UK)  »
My cousin has found this.
Looks suspiciously like an MC.
Did these decorations get engraved with the recipient's name?
Not much knowledge about provenance - "in the attic" after many house moves!
Any clues anyone?
Thanks
Graham

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Occupation Interests / Re: Dry stone walling
« on: Friday 02 May 25 21:13 BST (UK)  »
Depending on where you are, here's a good opportunity to find out more.....

https://www.friendsofthelakedistrict.org.uk/Event/walling-competition-2025


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Westmorland / Re: Dates on a document
« on: Thursday 10 April 25 18:13 BST (UK)  »
Useful converter tool for regnal years:
https://aulis.org/Calendar/Regnal_Years.html

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Kathleen Horne of Shipley, in 1927 became a surgeon
« on: Wednesday 09 April 25 16:28 BST (UK)  »
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/doctors-and-nurses/

https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums-and-archives/archives/

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The Lighter Side / Re: Civilian death
« on: Thursday 03 April 25 16:32 BST (UK)  »
Go to CWGC, find him; then click on Shoreditch - you can bring up the whole list of Shoreditch casualties and then sort by date. Only 3 deaths on that date, but of course these deaths may have been caused earlier - or people injured at the same date may have died some time later.

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The Common Room / Re: Information please on the SS Mersaric ship
« on: Monday 31 March 25 14:08 BST (UK)  »
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10134598

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