Ref # 95. Staffordshire is a similar example. In the north we've got the Potteries dialect which is close to Liverpudlian, whilst 35 miles to the south you enter Yam-Yam land with the bloody awful Brummie accent. I come from mid Staffs but my accent leans towards the Potteries. 

Pete, ref 97.... the difference here is the proximity of the differing accents. If I travel up the road from where I live, it comes to a T junction, if I turn left, they speak differently from those on the right, even though they are only literally 3 miles apart,

We had a member here from Birmingham a year or two back, but I can't remember his name.

Mark... you're right, the Brummie accent epitomises boring. Staffs man then? I think Staffordshire is one of the most beautiful counties in England. Great Regiment tooo.

Staffordshire has an important piece of military history. Every German serviceman who died on British soil, or who was washed up on the coast, from both World Wars is buried on Cannock Chase. They were all exhumed from their graves across the country in the mid 1960s and interred together in the Military Cemetery. Their headstones are black whilst the British and Commonwealth ones are white. 

happy easter to you too flash.

My father was born in Haydon Bridge, Northumberland, but moved South when he was 7. About 1 mile from Hadrian's Wall. Beautiful countryside. The Upper tyne flows there.

Northumberland is the last undiscovered county of England

Might be something to do with "Flashy's Dad born here" on the boundary markers.

What is this? Clue; just watched The Aviator

 

Looks like a P38 but the nose is wrong, and the tail looks different.

Flash....it's an aeroplane

Hughes designed the Lightning and commonality of parts was desirable. Now, get a grip, Hobbs. Look at those engines

Radials. Lightning had crappy old Allisons. Clue Hughes crashed one in 1946, nearly killed him.

Guess again

I couldn't stop myself from cheating when you gave such a marvelous clue, Flashman.  This is the Hughes XF-11, a reconnaissance plane.

Well done, Sunday

Twin 3000 Wright radials, could cruise at 400 mph. Contrarotating props which were were featuring in other posts. One gearbox was starved of oil, which caused the crash. Delayed development, and then in fact the Boeing B50 was chosen .

They were all victims of the coming jet.