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The Common Room / Re: Cancelled Car Registration?
« on: Thursday 12 June 25 14:46 BST (UK) »
Wk is indeed Coventry, I cannot now find the website that led me astray
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The Common Room / Re: Cancelled Car Registration?
« on: Thursday 12 June 25 14:15 BST (UK) »
There is some significance in the year 1937 as that was the year when the tax was changed from being reserved for the road fund, administered by the local authority, to being paid into general gov. funds.
£3 18 9 seem about right for 5 months road tax, as a year ran from Jan to December you could buy a proportion amount to the year end
£3 18 9 seem about right for 5 months road tax, as a year ran from Jan to December you could buy a proportion amount to the year end
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The Common Room / Re: Cancelled Car Registration?
« on: Thursday 12 June 25 14:01 BST (UK) »
The reg. CWK implies that the first registration was in the Truro area, the cancellation was in Coventry,
I think things were much more flexible then, I have feeling that you could re register a car in the local area you were living in
I think things were much more flexible then, I have feeling that you could re register a car in the local area you were living in
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World War Two / Re: HMS MILE? WW2
« on: Monday 19 May 25 19:46 BST (UK) »
My cousin spent the time from 1941- 42 ferrying supplies from Alexandria to Tobruk as one of a fleet of landing craft, up the coast in the dark, unload in Tobruk, back up the coast in the dark, load up go again.
June 42 was when Tobruck fell, the operation ceased then.
Mike
June 42 was when Tobruck fell, the operation ceased then.
Mike
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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Diary summary week ending 6th April 2025
« on: Saturday 05 April 25 21:02 BST (UK) »
I’ve just noticed I have spelt L S Lowry incorrectly and it should, if my memory serves me correctly,
should be marchstalk men.
I’ve done my roses all 46 of them and a first spray against blackspot (says he smugly
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should be marchstalk men.
I’ve done my roses all 46 of them and a first spray against blackspot (says he smugly
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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Diary summary week ending 6th April 2025
« on: Saturday 05 April 25 20:03 BST (UK) »Oh dear, did you dress in a rush but to be honest does it matter if your V neck was at the back or front, do t worry about it.As long as Bushinn did not get run over- someone might have turned his head round —- a Lancashire folk song , about someone who went out wearing his coat back to front,he got knocked down,and someone turned his head round!
LM
The Fivepenny Piece,singing a Lancashire folk song .
Viktoria.
Gosh Viktoria you have just taken me back 50 years, a five year old, a three year old, no phone no money but we had two healthy kids and a roof over our heads and were happy.,
I still have the LP but nowt to play it on, remember “where there’s muck there’s brass”, and the one about Lowery “ matchstick men and matchstick cats and dogs”
Mike
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The Common Room / Re: Rootschatters in the past
« on: Thursday 27 February 25 12:51 GMT (UK) »
The memory lingers on, but the wine still survives, I got a bottle in Sainsbury’s a few days ago.
Happy days of dial up modems and five minutes to load a page.
Mike
Happy days of dial up modems and five minutes to load a page.
Mike
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London and Middlesex / Re: Where are Records for Local Workhouse in Southall, Middlesex in 1945?
« on: Wednesday 19 February 25 19:01 GMT (UK) »https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/westmiddlesex.html
This will tell you about the history of WMCH, at one point it incorporated the old workhouse
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I see bookbox has already mentioned this,, my apologies bookbox