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June 11

Peter Bessell - Lynwyd School?

According to the Times obituary of Peter Bessell he was educated at Lynwyd School in Bath, and this is what our article goes with. The only Google hits for "Lynwyd School" appear to be either Wikipedia mirrors, or other sites closely paraphrasing our article. The only other mention of "Lynwyd" in the Times digital archive is a mention of it as a village in Wales in a marriage notice. My family are from Bath, and none recall a Lynwyd School ever being there. So, my question is, "where did Peter Bessell go to school?" DuncanHill (talk) 01:15, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I did a basic check of the Newspaper archive for the Bath Chronicle and found 4 possible results for further investigation here (all referencing 'Lyn-Wyd' in Bath). Nanonic (talk) 06:23, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. It seems "Lyn-Wyd" was used to mean Lyncombe and Widcombe (areas of Bath). Not tracked down the school yet, nor the "Bath Brotherhood" mentioned in one of the articles you found. Presumably some sort of Congregationalist chapel, if so it might jog my Dad's memory. DuncanHill (talk) 11:00, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, not found his school yet, but he was married in the Argyle Congregational Church in Bath, of which my grandfather was secretary! DuncanHill (talk) 11:27, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Many of the records from the newspaper archive say that the hall was on Somerset Street or Southgate street, which isn't in Widcombe or Lyncombe but is not too far away. I also found a record in the Somerset Archives which suggests that Lynwid hall was called at one point the "People's Mission Hall". On Corn Street, which is very nearby, there is the "mission theatre", which was "a Protestant place of worship" in the 19th century. I'm pretty sure that the roads have changed, as Somserset Street and Corn Street no longer share a corner, so it might once have been on one of the other roads. It's not very helpful I suppose but I find it quite interesting. --KingUther (talk) 09:10, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, much of Southgate has been demolished and rebuilt twice in my father's lifetime. DuncanHill (talk) 14:09, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

map legend

In this map[1]:

1. Light green is all land areas other than Hokkaido Prefecture.

2. Purple is Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido.

3. Brass color is the town being highlighted, Tōyako, Hokkaido in this case.

What about the 4. red and 5. brown areas? What do they represent?

All the maps for Japanese cities follow this legend on the Japanese and English Wikipedias (along others), but I can't seem to find a legend for this color scheme. Mũeller (talk) 11:45, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Red appears to be cities of Japan while brown is towns of Japan and villages of Japan. See List of cities in Japan. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:23, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What's the most negative interest rate debt ever? Has the price of debt ever been 1.01 per unit promised? (excluding repaying in different currency) 1.02? More?

(also not counting losing stock shorting lends since the stock lender was only promised shares, not that the shares would be worth anything)

How negative would bank and bond interest rates need to be before it becomes worth it for companies with liquid asset wealth on the scale of billions or hundreds of billions of $/€/£ to store most of it as banknotes in private vaults instead of banks? Wouldn't that hurt the (general) economy even more? (of course specific industries like vault builders and bank security guards might be helped)

Has a nonfinancial company ever stored that much (legally-earned, not being hidden) cash after say the Industrial Revolution reached them? Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 15:48, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t know. But, consider the cost of storing cash, risks and the obvious alternatives (paying dividends — remember those?!? — or stock buy-back tax avoidence schemes). DOR (HK) (talk) 16:41, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]