Ask What is the origin of the administrative collar?
The administrative collar is a removable collar made of white cotton or linen (although nowadays it is often made of plastic). It is attached to the back of the neck and can be shut on a spiritual shirt.
It is believed that the administrative collar, still the uniform of clergy today, is an invention that goes back to the Presbyterian church in Scotland in the second half of the 19th century. It is routinely attributed to the Rev Donald McLeod from Glasgow.
Before that, clergymen wore the black cassock, often with two white fabric strips that hung on the front of the collar. These are known as preaching lips or tires of Geneva.
So why do we credit Donald McLeod with the invention of the administrative collar?
The pastor provides Park Church, Glasgow, for a large part of the second half of the 19th century.
Rev Mcleod is noted for serving as a moderator of the general meeting of the Kirk and delivering a series of lectures entitled The Doctrine and Galidity of the Ministry and Sacrament of the National Church of Scotland.
The attribution of the collar to McLeod seems to be derived from a general meeting in December 5, 1894.
The administrative collar is a removable collar made of white cotton or linen (although nowadays it is often made of plastic). Displayed: the preacher of Dabitaley
It was recorded in the meeting notes that he personally [McLeod] only had one claim to immortality, and he was afraid it was on a fact that no one except himself was known, and that was, he was first introducing what was known as the 'dog collar' … he hoped his statement Immortality in that account would be informed by the historians. '
It seems quite possible that McLeod was kidding, but he often gets the honor for the invention.
Mr. Peter S. Dann, Ooundle, LEICS
Ask what was what was the story From Peanut King Percy Dalton?
Percy Dalton was born in Whitechapel in 1908 or 1909. He left the school at the age of nine and worked as a 'Barrow Boy', the collection of discarded fruit from the gutter in the Spitalfields market, polishing and selling it on a street market.
From about 1940 the Dalton family occupied a building on the corner of Crispin Street and Brushfield Street, where they acted as fruit traders.
In the early 1950s, Percy had the idea of ​​roasting peanuts in their shells and selling them at football matches and other events.
Men surrounded the football grounds of West Ham and Tottenham and sold roasted peanuts. The grounds were often littered with white Percy Dalton bags after the game.
The famous Peanut Company of Percy Dalton was officially recorded on May 22, 1957. You can still see a 'ghost sign' above the English restaurant in the Crispin/ Brushfield building. The warehouse of Percy Dalton moved to Dace Road on Fish Island, Tower Hamlets.
Percy Dalton (photo) was born in Whitechapel in 1908 or 1909. He left the school at the age of nine and worked as a 'Barrow Boy'
A sign that Percy Dalton's peanuts reads with the top of the Olympic Stadium visible behind
The Percy Dalton Nut Importers And Roasters Drawing in Spitalfields, London
Percy Dalton retired in 1975 and gave control of his sons. Percy died on August 9, 1983.
In 2005, Percy Dalton moved to Haverhill in Suffolk. The state-of-the-art factory produced 10,000 tonnes of nuts each year.
The company was taken over by the German Intersnack Group in 2009. The group closed the Haverhill operation in 2015 and decided instead to produce notes under the KP snacks (which they also possessed). Percy Dalton was stopped as a brand.
John Seddon, Ipswich, Suffolk
Ask what is The world's longest underground river? What is the longest in Britain?
The 95 mile watercourse runs through the SAC Actun (Mayan for 'White Cave') system in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico is considered the world's longest underground river. It was discovered in 2007 by the British diver Stephen Bogaerts and Robbie Schmittner from Germany.
The couple spent four years looking for a connection between the second and third longest cave systems of the Yucatan region, exploring great caves and squeezing by narrow cracks.
On January 23, 2007 she connected the two systems and dropped a bottle of champagne at the meeting point. Since then it has been discovered that the cave system is even bigger.
Before 2007 it was thought that the world's longest underground river was in the Philippines.
Displayed: Rock Formations in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge in Somerset (stock photo)
The Cheddar Yeo is the largest underground river system in Great -Britain, hidden in the Mendip Hills (stock photo)
The Cheddar Yeo is the largest underground river system in Great Britain, hidden in the Mendip Hills. The basin of the Cheddar Yeo, which stands up in the cave of Gough, measures 20.8 square miles.
The water can travel a maximum of ten miles underground and lasts up to 14 days to reach the village of Cheddar.
Katherine Greene, Pulborough, West Sussex
