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I have found a local cemetery gravestone that features the incumbents name and relevant dates naturally, but after the deceased name has the letters M.N.I. after them. Can anybody assist me in identifying these letters please ??
Thank you for any help at all.   

      Recently, I accompanied a friend of mine as we drove to Bury St Edmund's to collect an old engine. Amongst all the relative stuff we collected was a small wooden box, nailed together, and without a lid. It was obviously a tad grimy, as it was filled with small drill bits. My friend gave me this box last night, because on one side were 4X stamps from Ceylon. Having now looked them up, they feature George 6th, as part of the Commonwealth, between 1938-49, or so it says. Underneath this same box was a fountain pen written address, it states Miss A.D. Whiteman, or Wrightman (bad stain). 110, James Lane, Leyton E10, U.K.
      We considered the box to have contained perhaps a tea sample, given as a present to the senders intended perhaps?  However, here comes the spooky part. Of all the roads in Britain, my mother-in-law also lived in James Lane as a youngster, although a young girl during the war years, she only recalls the houses, but not the names of the inhabitants. Their house was numbered 114, plus, her father was a horse and cart deliverer of tealeaves thereabouts.
      The coincidence of the addresses is astonishing, all of the box related facts are, until now, completely random. We all live many miles away from Leyton these days, so the correlation is quite stunning.
      Is there anybody out there who could shed any light on who lived at 110 back then, did the sender of the box survive the war and marry the girl? or was he her father?  Was it tea in the box?
We are quite stunned at the story to be honest, and would love to hear of any information if available.

Thank you.

A while back someone was searching for a picture of their mother as Miss Pricerite opening the new supermarket in Ipswich. I accidentally stumbled on this site this morning and thought I would share it. Maybe others have seen it already but the first picture shows a small bit of the Pricerite shop logo, hence the inclusion on here, but the other pictures from the 60's and 70's are worth a look at Older Ipswich in colour.... 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ipsoc/10512463844/

  Hi,

    My maternal grandfather was awarded the Meritorious Medal for apparently stopping a runaway gun carriage and limber, he got rather badly mangled as a result. He was a farrier in the Veterinary ?? stationed No 5 at Rouen. He was medically discharged I believe in 1917.
    Real factual evidence is sadly lacking although the London Gazette does carry his award notification.
Is there any way at all of tracing the facts about what really happened to him regarding his medal award
  His name was Harry Musgrave Harker, born nr. Carlisle in 18.3.1880. Aged 19 yrs he was in the 19th Hussars I think, doing his bit for England in the 2nd Boer War.

I was recently looking through a large box of photographs with my mum, and we happened across a picture taken in the late fifties probably judging by my youthful appearance. Anyway, it had significant importance to me at the time of the picture taking, as I was in the presence of a certain Sheriff Danny Arnold of the Golden Garter.
I desperately wanted to be a sheriff as well in them far flung days of uninformed zeal, but, I never did. I well remember tracking the way to the Lido at Margate, by following a trail of golden painted hoof marks along the pavement. Of the show, I recall basically nothing other than a small, live monkey, a massive revolver and a wide brim cowboy hat..... such innocent fun, such faded memories....

Can anyone shed any further light on this nostalgic trip for me please...


I did discover a lapel/button badge on some other weird site, advertising the said Danny Arnold with his likeness.