La Rochelle? (View Post)

Re the subs, that was what the RN used to do till about 1815. Nothing new. (View Post)

That was actually a question to Kinabulu in re Mr Sweeney ... not sure what hapepned! (View Post)

How to keep oneself amused in the days before TV and even music hall ... https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/georgian-britain-age-modernity/lottery-tickets/ (View Post)

Also britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (££) has been filling in that sort of era. (Slightly disconcerting to find one's and one's friends' school doings in the local papers in the same bre… (View Post)