My dad was born in Cleethorpes, home of Grimsby Town. Lincolnshire folk then were known as 'yellowbellies'.
A farmer wants to buy a pig, but does not have enough money to buy one on his own, so he asks 2 neighbours to join him. They each put in £10 to buy the pig and the farmer sends his lazy son to the market to buy the pig. So the son sets off to the market, but on the way decides to have a nap in the late morning sun. Of course he over sleeps and arrives late at the market and there are only a few scrawny pigs left and he manages to pick one up for £25. On the way home he decides he deserves a few quid for his labours and trousers £2 and gives back the farmer and his neighbours £1 each. So if the farmer and his neighbours have paid £9 each for the pig, so £27 between them, and the boy took £2 - that is a total of £29. Where did the other £1 go?
The answer lies in the fact that the farmer and the neighbours all received £1. £25 for the pig, £2 for the boy and £1 each for the farmer and his neighbours which is £3, not £2. BTW, there is a slight caveat to the 207 Club question. There is an additional team that has yet to receive a ranking as they haven't played any games - Gibraltar.
I think it has something to do with the selling of horsemeat. Arnold Drury appears to have been the last British butcher to officially do this sometime back in the 40's. Tescos thus taking over this role.
O.K. When was the last time that mounted cavalry were used in an active war time role by the British army ?
The Sikhs used them in Burma during WWII against the Japanese - do Colonial Forces count as British Army?
No, actually later than this. A clue is that my father was affected by this. This military action is not that well known but the records come from the Chelsea military hospital - a couple of the Dragoons involved in this action are still alive and at Chelsea.
Would have gone for WWI but if some of the dragoons are still alive then it seems unlikely ... I'll go for part of the Normandy landings ... perhaps the more obscure ones where we needed to get somewhere extra fast...
