Dear Brian, Ok, I will ask: Who is Bertha Krupp ? Glenda >Come on, someone ask "Who's Bertha Krupp?" > >Brian B >Lancashire, UK. > >brian_bramhall@lineone.net >http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "James SHARPE" <sharpe@britishlibrary.net> >To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 1:57 PM >Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] Re:CO-OP > > >> It was a big gun named after Bertha Krupp. >> >> Jim Sharpe Manchester UK >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <MagsB1942@aol.com> >> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 9:15 PM >> Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] Re:CO-OP >> >> >> > In a message dated 25/11/00 17:36:57 GMT Standard Time, >> > sharpe@britishlibrary.net writes: >> > >> > << I remember the Co-op Laundry vans used to backfire like Big Bertha >> who's >> > Big Bertha?). >> >> > >> > Wasn't it a gun on the Western Front...WW1? Or.....some large lady who >> had >> > been eating Jeruslam artichokes......lol >> > >> > Maggie >> > >> > Surname interests: >> > BICKER, MILLER, SPRATT, MARSH mainly in Kent >> > MATTHEWS, GRANT, COAFFEE, BERESFORD, SWEENEY >> > in Middx, Bucks, USA and elsewhere >> >