From: London & Surrey Mini Owners Club. It was a moke with an extra axle added, obviously a fibre glass body, used in the film Doppelgänger:

An evaprotive cooler filled with water and a cylindrical filter that rotated, got wet and the wind from the car’s motion provided a blast of cool air through the filter into the small section of window that was open there. My Dad made ours from scratch for our 1950 Pontiac.

The facts: - Mr Polanski was registered to vote at a bungalow next to the Marina. Nine people were registered at that address – most of them didn’t live there, but lived on boats moored at the marina, and used the bungalow as a postal address

In November 1841, nineteen enslaved men took an American slave ship in the middle of the Atlantic. They sailed it to the nearest British port. ⚓ 128 of them walked off into freedom that day. 🇬🇧 And America wanted them back. 🇺🇸 Madison Washington had been born enslaved in Virginia. He escaped to Canada in 1840 and made it to freedom. Most enslaved people who reached Canada never went back. Madison Washington went back. His wife Susan was still in Virginia. He couldn't leave her there. He didn't reach her. He was recaptured. Sold. Put on the Creole, bound for the New Orleans slave markets. So were eighteen other men who had decided this voyage would not end the way it was supposed to. One of them was called Ben Blacksmith. Ben Blacksmith had heard a story. The year before, an American slave ship called the Hermosa had run aground in the Bahamas. The Bahamas were British. ⚓ British magistrates had boarded the ship, taken the 38 enslaved people off, and freed them under British law. That was the story Ben Blacksmith carried with him onto the Creole. On 7 November 1841, the rebels took the ship. They killed one slave trader. They wounded the captain but kept him alive. They needed him to navigate. Their first instinct was Liberia. The captain told them they didn't have enough food or water to cross the Atlantic. That was when Ben Blacksmith spoke. They turned the ship toward the Bahamas. When the Creole sailed into Nassau harbour, something extraordinary happened. Small boats put out from the shore, rowed by Black Bahamian mariners. Most of them had once been enslaved themselves. All of them were now free under British law. They surrounded the Creole. They were there to make sure the rebels could not be taken back. A British colonial officer came aboard. He was clear. Under British law, slavery was illegal. Anyone aboard the Creole who had been enslaved was, from that moment, free. ⚖️ A hundred and eleven walked off the Creole into freedom that day. The Friendly Society of Nassau housed them, fed them, found them work. Madison Washington and sixteen others were held to face trial. In Washington, the news arrived with fury. The Secretary of State, Daniel Webster, demanded the rebels back to face charges of mutiny and murder. Southern politicians demanded compensation. Some called for war with Britain. Britain refused. 🇬🇧 For five months. Through every threat. In April 1842, the Admiralty Court in Nassau ruled. The men had been illegally held as slaves under British law. They had the right to use force to free themselves. They were not pirates. They were not murderers. They were free men who had escaped illegal captivity. ⚖️ On 16 April 1842, Madison Washington and his fellow rebels walked out of the Nassau jail into the Bahamian sun. ☀️ The Creole was not the first. In 1830, the Comet wrecked off the Bahamas. Britain freed 164 people from it. In 1834, the Encomium. 45 freed. In 1835, the Enterprise. 78 freed. In 1840, the Hermosa. 38 freed. In 1841, the Creole. 128 freed. Across twelve years, British colonies had freed nearly 450 enslaved Americans from American ships in British waters. The most successful slave revolt in American history had ended on a British dock. 🇬🇧 Britain abolished slavery. Then refused to hand a single soul back, no matter who demanded it. We exist to put stories like this back into the story of Britain. Help us keep finding them. 🙏 proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. 🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Cocky SNP face tactical assault... @scottishsun's tactical vote guide to ensure the Nats don't get a majority and unfettered power for the next five years thescottishsun.co.uk/news/16…

Back when the lads smoked Embassy’s

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"Life expectancy has doubled since 1900, so clearly modern food is working." Yes. Brilliant point. Absolutely watertight. Tell me, when you picture a Victorian dying at thirty-eight, what do you think killed him? Was it the butter on his bread? Was it the lard in the pan? Was it the grass-fed mutton? The eggs from the yard? The unpasteurised milk straight from the cow he could see from the kitchen window? Or was it cholera, tuberculosis, dysentery, smallpox, sepsis from a splinter, childbirth in a room with no soap, a boiler explosion, a coal mine, a war, a workhouse, and the entirely reasonable medical practice of being bled by a man with a leech? We did not extend life expectancy by replacing his lard with sunflower oil. We extended it by inventing the toilet, the antibiotic, and the idea that surgeons might wash their hands occasionally. The margarine is doing nothing. The margarine is, if anything, slightly working against the project. The plumbing did the heavy lifting. Give the plumber a statue.

BREAKING: John Swinney claims credit for the discovery of penicillin, the moon landings, and Scotland qualifying for the 2026 World Cup

What an extraordinary life I get to live. Got on the tube yesterday and sat next to a very colourful, fabulous man called Danny, Danny the bass player to be precise. Great chat and just as I’ve leaving he pulls up his sleeve and shows me this. You’re a legend Danny Sapko @DannySapkoBass

Old Bailey, 10:30am, the trial of the 3 Ukranian young men who allegedly committed arson against Keir Starmers home and vehicle starts. But you probably wouldn’t know if you were listening to the radio or tv news. Why? Why has it been so silent on what after all, should be a massive story. Why did they do it? What was their motive? How did they know how to locate a home and a car associated with the Prime Minister? We support Ukraine so what provoked their anger? And will the gallery genuinely be open for people to report. Will they be “persuaded” to plead guilty which prevents a trial taking place. So many questions….and the mainstream press are asking none of them🤷‍♂️

I would be pleased to be on the database and I would love to speak to you about your bullying behaviour towards women @AlynSmith share share share folks and keep this bully boy with eyebrows off the gravy bus

I hear Sturgeon is on, here’s what Nigel had to say about her.

The Falklands have been the Falklands since before Argentina was Argentina. 🇬🇧

Our Reform UK winner in Cornwall goes to shake the hand of his Green Party opponent, who refuses to do so. The Green Party are the most dangerous party in Britain today, but I would still shake their hand. You know why? You can be wrong and still be human. Performative petulance!

Meet the late Paul Alexander, who spent 72 years in an iron lung since he was 6. He is a licenced attorney who practiced law for nearly three decades, an author, and an amateur painter. And Plaid Cymru bitch can't work a 9 to 5.

Go to my new Patreon site patreon.com/clintonbaptisteo… for my documentary Backstage at the Palladium.

Morning Happy St Georges Day despite all the negative issues going on in our country I still love this country. I have travelled the World and yes for a quick fix there are some amazing and far better places. But to live, rain snow & sun and more important the people you cannot beat good old England!

One more miracle and Brian Blessed becomes Brian Saint.

Kriss Donaldson was stabbed to death & set on fire 20 years ago in a racist attack by a bunch of asian men. No statue, no special remembrance day & certainly no Dameship for his poor mother. Just forgotten why? Because he was white!