A question I have wanted the answer to for a long time is why was Oxford not bombed in WW2. It was not bombed in the Baedeker raids, or because of the factories at Cowley and around Oxford. These...
My partner is having great difficulty finding the record of the death of Murray Clyde Preece. He was born in Calcutta, India in 1915, father Morley Preece, mother Eva Ellen Prece (nee Kleyn). He...
How long should dipped heatlight bulbs last?. May current car, Skoda Fabia and previously a Seat Leon both got though dipped heatlight bulbs as about one year each side. I do not do regular night...
Anybody know when and if the Number plate MOT requirement for suppliers name and POSTCODE is coming back in. It came in last September for post 2001 cars, but was suspended in October as there was a...
Is it just because there are a lot more lorries these days or that traffic news picks them up more, but there seems to be a lot more lorry fires about today that some years ago. With newer design of...
I put this in Adverts but got no replies so will try here. Does anybody know where the last part of the latest SEAT Car Advert was filmed, the one with the white car. It is at a derelict motor racing...
Does anybony know where the last part of the latest SEAT Car Advert was filmed, the one with the white car. It is at a derelict motor racing circuit with a banked track. I do not think it is...
Is it possible to use your old 2G mibile phone number with a new 3G SIM card so you can get the internet and other 3G benefits while still having your origonal phone number. Thank You
A possible relative of mine is listed by CWGC as being buried in Lille Southern Cemetery, he died on 24th July 1940, as this was over a month after Dunkirk, so was he a POW?. He was a serjeant in the...
have just found out from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission web site that some possible relatives were killed in the Orb Street Air Raid Shelter, in Southwark , on 12 September 1940. I have not...
I have a memory of my late father saying that when he was in the Sea Cadets in the late 1930s, he went on a large Royal Navy ship, I do not know its name, to Gibralter and back, escorting british...
Both my Grandfather and the grandfather of a friend of mine served on depot ship in the years after WW1 for a few months at a time during there service. One HMS Hecla, on Lough Swilly, County Donegal,...
Both my Grandfather and the grandfather of a friend of mine served on HMS Hecla, a depot ship on Lough Swilly, County Donegal, Ireland, near Buncara. They were both on it for a few months each in...
There is a story in the family that my Grandfather went to Japan when he was in the Royal Navy, 1904 - 1924. I have not been able to find anything in his service record of any ship he was on going to...
Does anybody Know a website or other source of information on 'the Battle of the Isle of May,. It was in 1918 of the Firth of Forth, when H.M.S. Fearless a light cruiser ran down and sunk the British...
