OneGuyFromBarlick

wouldn't KBPD .40.2 be her identity number. She probably had a crd as well with this number on it.

Yes Ken, see my previous post!

Wendyf wrote: ↑11 Oct 2022, 20:27 That's an interesting story Kev. I've actually discovered the answer to the initials myself by checking the 1939 Register.

The initials refer to the Electoral District, the 40 is the number of the household on the schedule and Florrie is the second person listed in the household. She can be identified instantly from the bracelet!

Cool, I had just read something that mentioned the 39 register but hadn't got as far as looking at it

Ken will be right about the card as well, would ration books have that same identity number? I knew why the 1939 Register was taken but hadn't grasped how effectively it was used!

Prob for the Ancestry thread, but I have found the 1939 register can miss some people out if you are looking for persons in sequential streets and houses and they are not there, or at their normal home, go through the next pages, sometimes right to the end and you will find additional people and houses the "data collector" could not find on the first knock on the door. If mum or grandma had dog tags for WW2 they never told me , or kept them so far as I know. I get the feeling of almost seeing my dad in a slight oversized blazer and a parcels label "please look after this boy" enroute to evacuation from london in WW2 ( some were evacuated before the 1939 register was taken as such , but they were sometimes still recorded at home but with a note as to what service- if military , or evacuation point , they were due to go to/ were at.

I can't remember ever seeing a number similar to that that applied to me....
Am I alone in wishing that we had Mark Carney at the BofE after hearing the latest dire news about the economy....?

Stanley wrote: ↑12 Oct 2022, 02:57 I can't remember ever seeing a number similar to that that applied to me....

The number was your National Registration number and would have been written on your Identity Card and Any Ration Books.

Wendyf wrote: ↑12 Oct 2022, 06:20

Stanley wrote: ↑12 Oct 2022, 02:57 I can't remember ever seeing a number similar to that that applied to me....

The number was your National Registration number and would have been written on your Identity Card and Any Ration Books.


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Why didnt they use National Insurance Number (I thought that related to pensions or did that only come in in 1948 ?)

Our History Society talk tomorrow night (Tuesday) should be interesting. All welcome!

67 shopping days until Xmas. I was reminded of this on Friday when I found that non-organic Brussels Sprouts were back on the shelves. I had another reminder this morning when there was a report on Farming Today about the affect the current plague of Bird Flu is having on birds in general and Turkeys in particular. The Chief Government Vet says that the turkey population hasn't been affected as yet but it took me back over the years to other warnings of turkey shortages before Xmas.
Xmas is coming!

Wendyf wrote: ↑17 Oct 2022, 19:04 Our History Society talk tomorrow night (Tuesday) should be interesting. All welcome!

Unfortunately I'm working, this looks as though it could be interesting.

Big Kev wrote: ↑18 Oct 2022, 06:30

Wendyf wrote: ↑17 Oct 2022, 19:04 Our History Society talk tomorrow night (Tuesday) should be interesting. All welcome!

Unfortunately I'm working, this looks as though it could be interesting.

Thanks Kev, the speaker is a professional photographer and photo restorer.

https://www.familyhistoryfederation.com ... ephen-gill

I bumpred into "Have I got news for you" last night. Unusually I stayed with it to see how the new Chairman Clive Myrie got on. I thought he was very good. I liked his sense of humour.I've been impressed with him for a while now after seeing him reporting,in clear danger, from Ukraine. Walking the walk.

Ian Hislop in an unguarded moment, revealed that Suella Braverman was known as Nutella. What on earth can he have meant? It rhymes of course which helps - probably he meant - very nice, and popular with most of the nation I expect - or is there another explanation?

I think he's lucky - it's the hottest news days for ages, and no media has picked up on it yet. Careers have been cancelled for less.

I tripped over this on Youtube....

Tripps wrote: ↑22 Oct 2022, 10:38 Ian Hislop in an unguarded moment, revealed that Suella Braverman was known as Nutella. What on earth can he have meant? It rhymes of course which helps - probably he meant - very nice, and popular with most of the nation I expect - or is there another explanation? I think he's lucky - it's the hottest news days for ages, and no media has picked up on it yet. Careers have been cancelled for less.

She's known as Nutella on some of the forums, but also as Cruella.

There has not been much of a follow up to the news that the undersea cable to The Shetlands has been severed, about a week ago. I read something about how dependent we are on them for all communication today, and that the whole of society could be closed down with a few well planned severings. Was it accidental or perhaps deliberate? A trial run for worse to come? Got me thinking of young Rudyard again. Insert any conspiracy theory that suits you here. . . .

"And a new Word runs between: whispering, 'Let us be one!"

That would be nice.

The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar—
Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are.
There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep,
Or the great grey level plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep.

Here in the womb of the world—here on the tie-ribs of earth
Words, and the words of men, flicker and flutter and beat—
Warning, sorrow and gain, salutation and mirth -
For a Power troubles the Still that has neither voice nor feet.

They have wakened the timeless Things; they have killed their father Time
Joining hands in the gloom, a league from the last of the sun.
Hush! Men talk to-day o'er the waste of the ultimate slime,
And a new Word runs between: whispering, 'Let us be one!'

Can't start the day better than a bit of Kipling David.... Thank you.
I hadn't heard about the cable to the Shetlands being severed. How did I miss that?

Google Shetland cable and see what you find.

However google 'Shetland cable cut' and you will find Cable

I'm not sure that I believe every word in the Guardian report.

I see what you mean. The whole report is a bit vague isn't it. Nobody giving any firm information....
Mind you. Seeing some of the trawls particularly the ones designed to catch scallops it doesn't surprise me that they are bad news for undersea cables....



Typical dredge for scallop. Look at those teeth!

It’s Melbourne Cup Day today - the race that stops the Nation - The richest handicap horse race in the world.
if anyone is interested…
Dream Runner won

Cathy wrote: ↑01 Nov 2022, 04:44 It’s Melbourne Cup Day today - the race that stops the Nation - The richest handicap horse race in the world.
if anyone is interested…
Dream Runner won

Gold Trip!

And by coincidence THIS report appeared this morning.....

Cathy wrote: ↑01 Nov 2022, 04:44 It’s Melbourne Cup Day today - the race that stops the Nation - The richest handicap horse race in the world.
if anyone is interested…

I'm interested. I knew it was imminent but not yesterday. I understand that the entry requirements were changed a few years ago to make it more difficult for European horses to qualify. I guess they don't want the Aus $4.8 million first prize to go abroad. Seems to have worked as there has been little mention here in the build up to the race.

Sadly I can claim no connection to the winner (at 18/1) except being vaguely aware of the name.

This link to the finish might work - Melbourne Cup 2022 You may need to click the link twice.

In 1992 I was in Oz for Janet's wedding and the Cup was run on the day I left. I was asked what I fancied while I was there and after looking at the runners plumped for Subzero. As we flew out over the Indian Ocean the Captain announced the winner and I reflected that it would have done my reputation in Oz no harm at all. Only last year one of the wedding guests mailed me to say the horse had died aged 31 at Bendigo. He had evidently remembered!



Here's the horse with his long time handler who looked after him in retirement.
(LINK)