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On Friday night there was a charming programme on BBC TV about the Nilgiri Hill Railway - it's locomotives and, more importantly, its staff. One of these was a bachelor, named Jenni, living alone in a railway bungalow at Cunnoor, a small village high in the hills of Tamil Nadhu. A charming man, one scene showed him whiling away the evening hours, reading quietly and with evident enjoyment. The book? A well-thumbed copy of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," by, of course, our very own Samuel Taylor Coleridge (C.H. 1781-90).

Saw it! Excellent series and daughter v.excited by spotting the book.

I saw it too, and had previously seen it a couple of months ago. Very educational and interesting, though I had not spotted a CH connection.

And in another connection my father in law has some of the original sketches done for the woodcuts used in a famous edition of the rhyme (don't know which) and he is also related to the Noel-Patons as I found out at a family event where a family tree was rolled out showing D N-P as the last male with the name and I was able to add in Kesia (Sp?) Kate and Sam to their amazement

Kezia

Not quite in the same vein, but I was on the phone today to an estate agent in Guildford. When I mentioned that I would be in the UK later this month, it turns out that the lady on the other end of the phone, whom I have never met, used to run the pub in Barns Green and knows CH well, having various friends and relatives who work there.
The conversation promptly got a lot less impersonal and the business atmosphere took a turn for the better.

If it was in the mid 80's when she ran th epub then my step nan was her cleaner - Nellie Noble

I was once browsing in a bookshop and I found a book about E H Shepherd - the original illustrator of Winnie the Pooh - I think it was the story of his life & work - not sure, but as I flicked through there was a sketch of a Blue Coat Boy!

This is a link to the illustrations and they were done by a Noel-Paton who was a famous scottish artist related to D N-P by direct ancestry and to my Father in Law

http://www.fulltable.com/vts/aoi/p/paton/am.htm

that is the set of prints he had to take to London to be scanned in

Aircraft loading and balance is a a precise art. If you leave Montreal there is a reasonable chance that the mathematics will have been worked out by an OB (who has subscribed to this forum)

sejintenej wrote:Aircraft loading and balance is a a precise art. If you leave Montreal there is a reasonable chance that the mathematics will have been worked out by an OB (who has subscribed to this forum)

What the Yanks refer to as a 'Loadmaster'

Not many Yanks in Montreal

englishangel wrote:Not many Yanks in Montreal

He's Yanking your chain. He will remember all about The Chain at Horsham who also used to get it Yanked

sejintenej wrote:

englishangel wrote:Not many Yanks in Montreal

He's Yanking your chain. He will remember all about The Chain at Horsham who also used to get it Yanked

A certain Rev. Pullen, perchance ?

J.R. wrote:

sejintenej wrote:

englishangel wrote:Not many Yanks in Montreal

He's Yanking your chain. He will remember all about The Chain at Horsham who also used to get it Yanked

A certain Rev. Pullen, perchance ?

yes.

Do you remember Corks (the Rev Cochrane), Jr housemaster in Col A? He moved to work at St Paul's Cathedral where he could visit Smithfield Market from 3am, Borough Market in the morning, City clubs in the afternoons, West End in the evenings and clubs until 4 am (and back to Smithfield Market again) 24 hours a day drinking time when the UK had strict licencing hours. I liked him as a person but I don't think he was necessarily a good teacher or housemaster. I spent about 8 hours with him doing the rounds one day - steady and not too fast so we didn't get legless. Surprisingly I never heard of him drinking with Kit Aitken - who was not teetotal!