Hi, Many thanks for all your help - really is fascinating. The part of the country it was in was Hunslet in the County of York. So you don't think it would have been the selling of nails then? Thanks, Simon >It might be easier to come up with an answer, or at least a better >guess, if we knew which part of the country and the trades that the >nail caster was surrounded by. _________________________________________________________________ Windows LiveĀ Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb