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In the "Clapping Song" recorded many years ago by Shirley Ellis. mention is made of a mother buying a Rubber Dolly if the girl was good.. The girl in question must have been a certain age, as the song lyrics said that her Aunt had told the mother that the girl had kissed a soldier. I recall...

On the ITV "Good Morning, Britain" programme this morning, the female presenter made reference to "Prince Andrew" when discussing a hypothetical extradition procedure, that would compel extradition to the USA to testify in the Epstein saga. I assumed that the title of "Prince" no longer applied...

Now at the age of 80, I suddenly remembered watching this programme, which had a good musical signature tune, when I was in my early teenage years, and was music orientated. Have any other website members memories of watching this programme?

Was this character the only one who appeared first in The Topper, then later in The Dandy?

In what country is it likely to hear this word and what does it mean?

If the numbers four, six, seven, eight and nine can all be suffixed with "teen", what was the number that makes the word "umpteen"?

Have any website thread contributors any memories of visiting this company?

When all is said about the Island Line, the hub settlement of the island, Newport, with its main bus station with bus routes all over the island is not served by it.

That volume of that "music" seems to suddenly have been increased in its volume from the previously reasonable level. A couple of my neighbours have commented on this. Have any website members also noticed it?

In our area, the recent heatwaves seems to have been beneficial to them, as there seems far more flying around my garden area than normal. Have website members in other areas noticed a similarity?

I have been looking through a box of line drawings that I bought years ago at an auction sale and one item in particular made me wonder. It is a hand-written line drawing in black ink on manilla paper of quite some age that has all the stations and halts marked upon it and in-between Aberedw...

My next-door neighbour and I have had a number of these clinging onto the internal walls of the house. I only moved here early this year, but my neighbour says that last year saw the problem in his house. I wonder if the recent hot dry weather has anything to do wth the problem. Has anyone on...

Rather annoyingly, when I am typing out correspondence, any new sentence that commences with the capital letter "P" causes the "print drop-down box" to appear and the capital letter not appear and everything comes to a dead stop until I cause the offending drop-down box to be cleared. I am...

Are there any other closed lines in the pipeline for re-opening consideration in the same regional area?

There were a number of stations opened by that railway during the short lifetime of its operation which were subsequently closed by that company prior to its absorption by the Midland Railway in 1845. Does anyone know why those stations had such a very short lifetime?

Were the only works ever carried out by this railway the construction of Maudland Bridge railway station and the Deepdale tunnels?

In Britain, when did it first become acceptable to name girls after flowers, months of the year, jewels, etc? Have any website members personal knowledge of friends or family members who have girl's names of that type.

Based on a query i heard very many years ago, what will cartoon characters in the comics be like when they grow up? Dennis the Menace and Beryl the Peril spring to mind as examples.

Which would have been the routing of such services and were shipments of cotton from the Liverpool Docks to the northern area cotton mill towns part of these goods services.

I was asked something that I should have been able to answer but had to admit that I could not. What was the most easterly closed station that was solely served by the LNWR and what line was it on? Can anyone assist, please.