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Having to drive through multiple centres of large towns in the years leading up to the emergence of motorways and major by-passes. Quite stressful for previous generation drivers who were having to contend with unprecedented traffic congestion in historic towns with roads ill suited to heavy...

When it was custom and practice for dogs to defecate with the contents of their bowels being left wherever they happened to land.

Problems again this morning with a points failure somewhere between Lancaster and Oxenholme stopping the job.

Girls being sent home from school for wearing trousers as a rule existed in many schools that only boys were allowed to wear trousers. A school somewhere in the north of Scotland experienced something of a "mutiny" on this policy which reached the media and the school backed down claiming the...

Two for the price of one - hot off the Press. James Stunt is on trial at Leeds Crown Court along with four other men in the biggest money laundering prosecution ever brought before a British judge. Some of the "dirty" money was delivered to the premises of Bradford gold dealer Fowler Oldfield.

Beauty Contests of a regional or local nature sometimes sponsored by the local newspaper or radio station.

Can't speak for the particular example which prompted the thread but it's an occasional feature for ScotRail to operate an ECS journey and cancel the passenger carrying journey booked for the same unit to the same destination in the immediate wake of its late-running inbound journey in order to...

To a mere lay observer such as myself that seems an insane practice.

Their was a dignitary and member of the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy in Dunbartonshire in the 1960s whose title and name was Canon Ball. Also a proficient Scottish violinist again in the 1960s called Iona Brown which in itself doesn't qualify. However her billing within Radio Times, concert...

The Lord True. (Shadow Leader of the House of Lords). Chris Pincher (Former UK Minister of State for Housing and Planning) resigned following numerous complaints of his erm pinching activities.

Benjamin Netanyahu. It's the "Yahoo" element of his name that seems to me to be a bit out of character.

I'll open the bidding with James Cleverly.

"Chain letters". I can't quite remember how they worked in detail but if you received one you were urged to send it onwards to someone you knew with a similar expectation that they would pass it on to someone they knew and so on ad infinitum. Some dire but unspecified ill luck was supposed to...

The 1840 departed Glasgow Central 71 minutes late.

Along with tongs and possibly bellows to further encourage the conflagration.

At this rate we will shortly be taking bets on when a "temporary timetable" will need to be introduced.

At least one of the "spin-off" films of the television series "On The Buses" took the show beyond the confines of "Luxton and District" to a holiday resort I think. It runs in my mind that Eastern National were the bus company which assisted with the television production.

Groups/Bands whose material was based on traditional songs of the UK nations and Ireland with a significantly big following which extended into mainland Europe. Thinking of the likes of The Dubliners, Steeleye Span etc. which don't appear to have current equivalents or presumably the demand...

The former tendency of many cities and towns to have a standard "Trades Holiday Fortnight" in the Summer School Holidays especially in areas with labour intensive industries such as coal mining, shipbuilding etc. Often associated with a narrow popular range of seaside resorts for family holidays...

Most Scottish Local Authorities have a week's school holidays commencing either 7th or 14th October and some have school holidays both weeks. It will be interesting to see if this has a bearing on staff availability and consequential ability to field the enhanced services without ad hoc...