…well she was bleeding from the eyes and had diarrhea. So it was either Cholera or Ebola… The interesting things you hear walking along the canal at lunch. This from two suited and booted chaps heading back to QMUL. Walking as we were, in opposite directions, I didn’t get to hear any more than that.
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Thomas Esbroke’s last will and testament.
I finally managed to get the free time to track down a the will of Thomas Esbroke that I’ve previously mentioned here. As it happens I tracked down a copy of a copy, which I then copied, so quality is not wonderful. The image is under the cut, the transcript I posted before seems to …
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Back
I’m back from an enforced absense from the web. First my virtual-server went down, then I discovered that all the confirmation details and passwords to get the server back up were stored in the now inaccessable server. Fixed now anyway.
Wantz – again
Some further digging in the archives today has revealed some confusion as to the source of the Wantz Stream. One news paper clipping from 1951 gives the source as “just south of Hainault” later stating “Six hundred years ago it was called the Wythendenbroke. Later it was known as Wisdom River.” The book, The Dagenham …
A hobby under threat?
It seems that one of the big stories doing the rounds on the ‘blogs today is the dumbing down of childrens’ chemistry sets. When I was growing up as a kid, I remember begging for a chemistry set one Christmas, at the time the holy grail of chemistry sets was the Salters Science Chemistry Set …