Only because the children and other human beings have been driven off the roads and into their homes or the family car. (View Post)

THis thread has failed to attain replacement value. (View Post)

Nice photo too! But - as a public water dispenser - it really must have been a traffic-blocker in the main crossroads at Oxford before it got carted off by the relevant Harcourt gentry to Nuneham Cou… (View Post)

Carfax conduit? (View Post)

It depends on the mineral. Oil (and gas?) is IIRC a state good presumably because of Churchill and the Navy needing it for strategic reasons in the great modernization of the RN c. 1910 onwards. Coal… (View Post)