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http://www.christmastimeuk.com/white_christmas.php

Enter your county for your chance of a white christmas (probably more
appropriate as a bit of fun for the kids).

Ian

"Joe" wrote in message
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On the subject of clangers, I've been watching the film Battle of
Britain, and the scene where Robert Shaw and Ian McShane came out of a
cottage, I noticed there was a plastic doorbell on the door frame.

Was there plastic door bells or even electric door bells in 1940?


There was plastic in the form of Bakelite .... nice stuff that, except when
it explodes.
There was electricity of course.

So, there *could* have been an electric doorbell ... they must have been
rich people (:

Gianna

Ian Waddell wrote:
He

http://www.christmastimeuk.com/white_christmas.php

Enter your county for your chance of a white christmas (probably more
appropriate as a bit of fun for the kids).

Ian




As anyone noticed the typo on that website, instead of Dumfries, it's
Dumfried !

On the subject of clangers, I've been watching the film Battle of
Britain, and the scene where Robert Shaw and Ian McShane came out of a
cottage, I noticed there was a plastic doorbell on the door frame.

Was there plastic door bells or even electric door bells in 1940?

Joe
Wolverhampton

Joe wrote:

As anyone noticed the typo on that website, instead of Dumfries, it's
Dumfried !

I misspelt Staffordshire on an important letter once. Unfortunately, I
hit the T key instead of the R key for the second R :-/

--
Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.jstott.me.uk/weather/

So, there *could* have been an electric doorbell ... they must have been
rich people (:


Not necessarily. There were quite a few in the comfortable, but not rich,
suburb I was brought up in, and they weren't expensive. They were thought a
bit poncy and in those days people spent far less money on things they didn't
really need. Just glad the bloody war was over.
I've never known Bakelite explode, by the way. You can get it a good deal
hotter than modern plastics such as polythene, polypropylene or PVC or even
nylon before it collapses. At a really high temperature it crumbles and
catches fire, but then so does everything.

Tudor Hughes (born 1942).

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:10:58 +0000, Joe wrote:



Ian Waddell wrote:
He

http://www.christmastimeuk.com/white_christmas.php

Enter your county for your chance of a white christmas (probably more
appropriate as a bit of fun for the kids).

Ian




As anyone noticed the typo on that website, instead of Dumfries, it's
Dumfried !

On the subject of clangers, I've been watching the film Battle of
Britain, and the scene where Robert Shaw and Ian McShane came out of a
cottage, I noticed there was a plastic doorbell on the door frame.

Was there plastic door bells or even electric door bells in 1940?

There certainly were, a relative of mine had a house that at one time used to
have servants. The servants were summoned by a fairly complex system of bell
pushes, usually bakelite and circular. The bell pushes activated an
electromagnet which attracted a bell (a proper bell with clapper etc) attached
to a springy mount which then vibrated, so causing the bell to ring. These
sorts of bells were also used as doorbells and I'm sure some exists and are
still in working order. They probably date from late Victorian times.

If the bell push in the film was ****e plastic with an LED I imagine it would be
a little less believable.

Martin



Joe
Wolverhampton

Jonathan Stott wrote in message
I misspelt Staffordshire on an important letter once. Unfortunately, I
hit the T key instead of the R key for the second R :-/

At which point you must have thought "Oh Shir!"

Jack

Felly sgrifennodd Joe :
As anyone noticed the typo on that website, instead of Dumfries, it's
Dumfried !

That's nothing like as bad as the spelling mistake of Ceredigion (they spell
it Cardiganshire - not even close!)

Adrian

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Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Cymru ac.
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Adrian D. Shaw wrote:
Felly sgrifennodd Joe :

As anyone noticed the typo on that website, instead of Dumfries, it's
Dumfried !


That's nothing like as bad as the spelling mistake of Ceredigion (they spell
it Cardiganshire - not even close!)

They also seem to think that "Strathclyde" is a county.
--
Steve Loft, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire. 1417ft ASL
http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/weather/
Free weather softwa http://cumulus.nybbles.co.uk/
Experimental webcam: http://www.wanlockhead.org.uk/webcam.php

Spelling and Typos. (minor off topic) Thinking caps on for.....

a British place name where the same letter (without any hyphens,
etc)legitimately occur together three times as in Norrridge.

And I do know the answer! (It happened to come up in a crossword
many moons ago)

Jack