I've been having an argument with my mates and google can't settle it. What's the leader of a fireman's watch (UK) called? Chief, Commander, Station Master??? help, we've not got a clue!
not sure where I should have posted this Q! I use a website called www.readitswapit.co.uk, which earns a comission from Amazon if you purchase from Amazon via a link on RISI. Does anyone know how you...
I have got my hands on Chester Cathedral parish registers 1687-1812 (and found several ancestors - woo!) it's got usual BMD, with a little bit of a description about the people involved. I also have...
ok I'm a total dunce when it comes to scripting http, and every 'help' site I've looked on is far too technical for me! can anyone advise if I can add a ms access database to a website and use http to...
hypothetically speaking, if I had access to transcripts of marriage applications for 50 parishes between the years 1700-1850, could I legally sell this information on the internet (from a UK based...
I've found an ancestor with an odd occupation and I'm wondering if someone can help me. On the 1901 census his occupation is 'carter district council' (in an area where I can't find a place called...
this is given as the birthplace of a 3x great grandfather, James McMullen, on the 1911 census (the only record of him I can find in England, although he was in Liverpool from at least 1872, when his...
my 3xgreat grandfather was a solicitor in a loom society in Liverpool in the 1850s, is there any way I can find out anything about this? Tried googling to no avail. His name was William Robertson, b....
I'm trying to trace my maternal grandfather's family tree and struggling with my G.G.grandfather's family. I'm descended from Arthur Saville (b. 1895 in Skirbeck), who is the son of John Edward...
I've got a couple of trays of radish in my greenhouse, I went away for a week (trusting them to my dad's version of TLC) I came back and found they'd all shot up about a metre and were flowering. As...
can anyone help? I was letting the dogs out at 6.30am yesterday and I saw a strange bird in my garden. It was about the same size and shape of a crow, with a similar beak. It had a pale grey 'hood'...
I was travelling down an expressway near my home (that I have used at least once a week every week since I started to learn to drive 8 years ago) the limit is 60 and there is a gatso camera on each...
can anyone help? My great great uncle Edgar Reney McMullen moved to America and was naturalised in 1929. I know from his naturalisation papers that he married on 23/04/1926 in Portland, Oregon. His...
Please help! My nan's got 2 original watercolours of cows by a lake (looks Swiss or something) signed by an artist called R Cooper. I've found a couple of his other works via artnet, one of the Sphinx...
can anyone help me? I've got a new LG viewty smart and I can't get onto the internet via my vodafone payg sim. It's not the phone because I can access the internet via my wifi connection at home, do I...
I'm trying to remember a series I read when I was young, it was about a group of teenage boys who solved crimes, they had a den hidden in an old trailer concealed at the bottom of the junkyard owned...
All these clues are the names of London underground and DLR stations. 1. Little Helvetic chalet 2. A lusty archer is an ever-present menace here 3. How baronets get over water 4. Pay your toll here 5....
I'm trying to get onto a spreadsheet I've not used in 6mths, it's on the new version of Microsoft Excel. It's password protected, but no-one can remember what the password it. Is there any way of...
hi, does anyone know what BS EN ISO 9002:2000 actually is, or where I can find out? I've looked on the British Standards website and they want me to pay! thanks.
can anyone solve this? i've been trying all morning and it's doing my head in... you have to make the following numbers add up to 915 using add, subtract, divide and multiply. 4, 7, 9, 9, 75, 100...