Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on November 10, 2009 at 15:19:12 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: KNIVES posted by Ed Kiser on November 10, 2009 at 14:46:46:
Iron railings (lengths of iron bar, used as fencing)were commoner in the Britain of the 1930s than they are in the Britain of today.
The "scrap drives" of WW2 saw most of them carted off and melted down.