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Hi WordPress limit the amount of space on this website and unfortunately mine is all used up! I hope to tidy the site up at some point and / or make another but in the meantime there will be no new articles. I will hopefully be able to continue updating the present ones. Stay safe.

Only Fools and Horses Broom Quote For NHS – YouTube

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Chambers Pencils is a bespoke pencil manufacturer based in Stapleford, Nottingham who are struggling because of Brexit and the pandemic. Along with Derwent Pencils they are perhaps the last 2 pencil makers left in the UK.

https://www.chamberspencil…

How To Make The Perfect Cup Of Tea | The Murdock Man

Source: How To Make The Perfect Cup Of Tea | The Murdock Man

HOW TO MAKE THE PERFECT CUP OF TEA

One of the most everyday of British tasks has its proper methods.

Many an Englishman wouldn’t go a day without consuming at least one cup of tea. Be his preference an awakening mug first thing, a relaxing evening brew, or indeed both. The difference between a good and bad brew however treads a fine…

Selfridges (Oxford) Ltd – a very brief history‏

 Selfridges (Oxford) Ltd – a very brief history‏

Selfridges (Oxford) Ltdopened its doors in around 1972. Selfridges (Oxford) Ltd was a large and very prestigious department store located at 27 Westgate, Oxford, OX1 1LP. Sears (who by then owned Lewis’s, who were also the owners of the Selfridges London store) re-branded the store as Lewis’s in around 1989 and it traded under the Lewis’s name…

Lack of choice in shops stops British consumers buying British

If retailers only stock foreign made items, then mostly consumers will only buy foreign made items.  Most will I guess not be willing to go to the trouble of shopping elsewhere, such as on the internet, to buy British.  Let me give you some examples:

I popped into Tesco in Yiewsley to buy a bar of soap – not one single bar of soap for sale in Tesco was made in the UK.

I looked at road atlases of…

UK firm to contest move to make new passports in France – BBC News

The existing UK supplier plans to appeal against the decision to use a Franco-Dutch firm after Brexit. Source: UK firm to contest move to make new passports in France – BBC News We do not have to leave the EU to have blue passports anyway and now we learn that the passports will be printed by a foreign company. It’s all about free trade, but in France, as a foreign-based firm, current British…

Should the UK Government be buying British? – Make it British

MP demands to know why Parliament aren’t serving on plates made in Stoke-on-Trent When Stoke-on-Trent North MP Ruth Smeeth noticed plates in the Houses of Parliament that didn’t have the renowned Stoke-on-Trent Source: Should the UK Government be buying British? – Make it British The British Government and its Civil Service should buy British made and their procurement policy should favour buying…

Buy British Christmas Gifts – The Make it British Gift Guide

There are lots of ideas here on the ukmade site for great Christmas presents. Please have a look around. Lots of ideas elsewhere on the net too. Please remember to get British made christmas cards and gift wrap too…and British made Christmas decorations and British made tinsel British made Christmas Crackers. Make it a Great British Christmas… There are some great suggestions for British made…