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vita
19-07-15, 10:36
Anyone any idea what skettles were? 4 x G/Uncle Samuel was delivering them

to St John's Wood barracks when somebody nicked his cart.
Olde Crone
19-07-15, 19:48
Skittles? Kettles?

OC
Merry
19-07-15, 20:17
All the newspaper entries looked at (not too many before I got bored!) seemed to be using the word for skittles.
vita
20-07-15, 10:30
Thanks OC & Merry - so that's what Victorian soldiers got up to in their spare time.