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Originally Posted by steeljack
Retlaw , your knowledge of the local area and history reminds me of the chap who used to do the column in the Accy Observer , think he was called Joyson/Joinson (sure someone will correct me ), but really enjoy your posts on the local area , Thanks for passing the info on to future generations
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The chap your refering to was Roland Joynson, I knew him well through the Fire Brigade, whenever there was a serious incident he would be there.
My knowledge af the area comes from my time in the Fire Brigade, one of my jobs was to keep the records of farms, small holdings and other properties in outlying areas, checking access and water supplies, over 900 properties in our division area of over 200 square miles.
Each property had a card with a hand drawn map on the back showing the route distances and water supplies, all the details were kept in what we called a farm register, every appliance carried a copy, I still have my copy.
All that is now superceded by an electronic navigation system. a few years ago one of the officers showed me the new system and how it worked, it was based on a post code database, so I got the old cards out and beat it 5 out of 10, a lot of those places don't have post codes, they collect there own mail from a PO box number. So it shows local knowledge is best.
Retlaw.