----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Bowyer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 5:06 PM Subject: [canals-list] Re: Caught drunk boating?
> As I recall, Percy was from Huddersfield and received one farthing > [remember! - them with robin on them!!] for each catseye the DoT > installed in UK roads. He lived a reclusive but rich life near > Huddersfield after that. An interesting site on Percy Shaw is at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/3634816/Percy-Shaw-Man-with-his-eye-on-the-road.html His eccentric later lifestyle is mentioned towards the bottom of the article! Dave Croft Warrington http://www.oldengine.org/members/croft/ http://community.webshots.com/user/crftdv
