Dave Cole
@mrcheapseats.bsky.social
Son of Norfolk, Family History Nerd, War Graves, Old Land Rovers etc. Evacuee from the Other Place. Tolle divitem et pauperem non invenies.
Ramblings here: https://farmboysandpioneers.com/
Ramblings here: https://farmboysandpioneers.com/
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Dave Cole
@mrcheapseats.bsky.social
· Sep 22
Herbert Crook: The Last Post
Sometimes you have to accept that research is never finished when it comes to family history….. Family genealogy is such that you often reach the end of a road and have to park your investiga…
farmboysandpioneers.com
A late letter from over a century ago. A final piece in a family jigsaw?
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🟢🟡 The Smiles Are Back at Carrow Road. The Clement Era Has Liftoff.
🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social
▪️An emotional afternoon, the odd tear
▪️The Mattsson we were promised
▪️Time to hand reins to Clement
▪️Knapper to just data-fiddle
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/30/t...
#ncfc
🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social
▪️An emotional afternoon, the odd tear
▪️The Mattsson we were promised
▪️Time to hand reins to Clement
▪️Knapper to just data-fiddle
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/30/t...
#ncfc
November 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
🟢🟡 The Smiles Are Back at Carrow Road. The Clement Era Has Liftoff.
🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social
▪️An emotional afternoon, the odd tear
▪️The Mattsson we were promised
▪️Time to hand reins to Clement
▪️Knapper to just data-fiddle
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/30/t...
#ncfc
🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social
▪️An emotional afternoon, the odd tear
▪️The Mattsson we were promised
▪️Time to hand reins to Clement
▪️Knapper to just data-fiddle
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/30/t...
#ncfc
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Norfolk remembers
That which was lost – is found
In early 2024 a memorial to the men of a small Norfolk parish, who had served in WW1, was discovered in a shed in Cleethorpes. A ‘phone call to the then Clerk of Poringland Parish Council fol…
norfolkrecordofficeblog.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Norfolk remembers
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‘Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.’
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 AM
‘Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.’
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
Let's find out which minister put him in the VIP lane...
The founder of an investment company who bought an £8.5 million London flat after supplying 50 million faulty PPE masks during the pandemic has had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property.
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
Financier’s £8.5m flat frozen amid tax investigation over PPE deal
Tim Horlick bought the Pimlico property shortly after his company was awarded the now-contentious £255m contract by the government
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Let's find out which minister put him in the VIP lane...
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The founder of an investment company who bought an £8.5 million London flat after supplying 50 million faulty PPE masks during the pandemic has had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property.
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
Financier’s £8.5m flat frozen amid tax investigation over PPE deal
Tim Horlick bought the Pimlico property shortly after his company was awarded the now-contentious £255m contract by the government
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The founder of an investment company who bought an £8.5 million London flat after supplying 50 million faulty PPE masks during the pandemic has had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property.
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
Badenoch is as thick as mince
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Badenoch is as thick as mince
I'm not sure if Clement is very good at disguising how utterly brutal he is with the Jurasek thing. Are we really expected to believe he mistakenly thought he was fit enough? Looks like he took 16 minutes to work out what we've all known for months #NCFC
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I'm not sure if Clement is very good at disguising how utterly brutal he is with the Jurasek thing. Are we really expected to believe he mistakenly thought he was fit enough? Looks like he took 16 minutes to work out what we've all known for months #NCFC
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In November 1916, William Ivor Castle became credited as the first Great War photographer to take photographs of "tanks in action."
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
In November 1916, William Ivor Castle became credited as the first Great War photographer to take photographs of "tanks in action."
Robbie Gibb and Operation Trojan Horse on display
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Robbie Gibb and Operation Trojan Horse on display
On this day in 1918 William Hinnells was buried at Salthouse church; thousands of miles from his daughter who he'd only known for a few weeks before he left to go to war
A Soldiers Heart: The tale of William Hinnells
A battle of a different kind
farmboysandpioneers.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
On this day in 1918 William Hinnells was buried at Salthouse church; thousands of miles from his daughter who he'd only known for a few weeks before he left to go to war
Unsure if the King's Lynn Bylaws will be of any assistance to the Chancellor in budget week
27 January 1374
If anyone speaks ill of tax-collectors because of the tax assessed on them, or arranges for anything to happen whereby they are harmed or obstructed, he shall pay twice as much tax that year
27 January 1374
If anyone speaks ill of tax-collectors because of the tax assessed on them, or arranges for anything to happen whereby they are harmed or obstructed, he shall pay twice as much tax that year
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Unsure if the King's Lynn Bylaws will be of any assistance to the Chancellor in budget week
27 January 1374
If anyone speaks ill of tax-collectors because of the tax assessed on them, or arranges for anything to happen whereby they are harmed or obstructed, he shall pay twice as much tax that year
27 January 1374
If anyone speaks ill of tax-collectors because of the tax assessed on them, or arranges for anything to happen whereby they are harmed or obstructed, he shall pay twice as much tax that year
Post a movie where you're from.
(Revolution, 1985)
(Revolution, 1985)
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Post a movie where you're from.
(Revolution, 1985)
(Revolution, 1985)
Imagine any other junior public servant behaving like this, and not ending up in jail
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Imagine any other junior public servant behaving like this, and not ending up in jail
My feed is behind real time. My phone pings to announce a goal - Makama has the ball on the byline. 10 seconds later it's in our net #NCFC
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
My feed is behind real time. My phone pings to announce a goal - Makama has the ball on the byline. 10 seconds later it's in our net #NCFC
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NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline
As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...
www.thenerve.news
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
Traitorous the lot of them.
The most successful foreign influence operation in modern British history. I hope others fall with him.
'Though those that are betray'd do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe'
The most successful foreign influence operation in modern British history. I hope others fall with him.
'Though those that are betray'd do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe'
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Traitorous the lot of them.
The most successful foreign influence operation in modern British history. I hope others fall with him.
'Though those that are betray'd do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe'
The most successful foreign influence operation in modern British history. I hope others fall with him.
'Though those that are betray'd do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe'
Reposted by Dave Cole
20 November 1936 | Czech Jewish girl Hana Brocková was born.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
20 November 1936 | Czech Jewish girl Hana Brocková was born.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.