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Oooh! makes me feel really dim. I immediately read it as meaning obtaining stones, and leadwork - the metal!! All in the way one's brain pronounces it, I suppose - "Leed" rather than "Led" I'd have gone completely off on a wrong track there.
-And I'm Yorkshire too! (Goes off to stand quietly in the corner with a pointy hat on head marked with 4th letter of alphabet)

Agree. - But in another way, it'd be nice to get just that bit further back on at least one line. However, all so hopelessly "plebian" that I've not a cat in hell's chance of getting there.
Still, better than those mysterious Irish, who all seemed so vague about ages and place of origin even within Ireland - none of those goes beyond 1850!
_But I feel sure really that I must have William the Conqueror, Attila the Hun and possibly Boudicca in there, somewhere!!!

keyboard, wasn't Dixon / Dickson the married surname for Elizabeth?

There was a sort of orange-y perfume, quite cheap and nasty, I believe, called "Aquamanda" that was fashionable in the 1960s - I remember a cousin asking for it.
Tights were not available for all throughout the 1960s - short, with small feet and slim legs, I'd tried, but ended up turning them over coins at the top to try to avoid droopy wrinkles round the ankles (it didn't) - so I was subject to the tyranny of the suspender belt for a bit longer than most of my contemporaries! When I did find tights that fitted I was so delighted..... and patterned ones that fitted! Wonderful!
And boots! Yes, there was a time before fashion boots. Funny little black suede zip-up-the-front ones, about ankle high, by Morlands, very sensible if you had to plod to school through foul weather, but not exactly thrilling, when you'd rather have been wearing fashionable shoes. Do you remember the white plastic pseudo "Courreges" boots, later - discoloured to dingy yellowish quite quickly, and not very nice to wear?
Droopy brimmed hats in felt, with always a gauzy scarf tied round instead of a hat-ribbon?
Good heavens, the strange things we thought were high fashion - and that we thought actually suited us!

Sounds to me like stuff that may be used in a dairy -sieves are used, aren't they, in cheesemaking etc.?