A collegue tells me that in his area, one large series of adverts in one of the big phone books by one national advertiser actually has many small adverts, all with local addresses, all across the area. They are desperate to look like a local company, and, to be fair, if they are prepared to […]
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A site I frequent, Lockpicking101.com, recently had a small competition, wherein one member challenged the rest to find out his first name, for prizes based on the time it took. He doesn’t use his firstname, and goes by his second name at all times, even on legal stuff. So a lot of people started trawlling
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This is a bit of a social comment. When I am out doing work for councils and companies, I get to go to some really charming places. Others are not so charming. Others, well, they leave you scratching your head. This street in Manchester is typical of a number that I see when doing my
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As I said last time, it is important when you live right on the coast to look after anything that is made of metal. Salt and sand will corrode and abrade, and locks that would last 30 years inland will fail within 5 years in a place like Blackpool. The easiest way to stop your
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Almost every time I go to Blackpool, Thornton, even Morecambe, I am amazed by the effect the sea salt has on the locks in the area. Even relatively new locks on high use doors are frequently worn out due to the corrosive effect of the sand and salt driven into every crevice by the often
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On older cars, especially those with deep cuts towards the rear of the key, it is fairly common for the key to get snapped. I’ve done a few call-outs along these lines, in Garstang, Kirkham, Layland and so on. The chap today googled “auto locksmiths Preston” and eventually found me, since I didn’t have the
New car keys from old Read More »
Ah! Fame at last! We have arrived on teh intarweb! Just deleted 395 spam comments. All from the last two days! Some form of CAPTCHA shall be added forthwith. Edit: Some form of CAPTCHA is in place already, but the bots seem to have wised up to it! Or else they learned basic maths… Time
http://www.peterborough.gov.uk/page-4620 From August 19th 2005: — Locksmith sentenced on £2,750 benefit fraud charges A self-employed locksmith, who fraudulently claimed more than £2,750 in job seeker’s allowance and housing benefit while working, was given a 40-hours community punishment order and told to pay £100 prosecution costs at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court yesterday (Thursday 18 August). Darron Williams,
Locksmith on £2,750 benefit fraud charges – we need licensing! Read More »
I am beginning to think that we are the only 24 hour locksmiths who work the weekend in Preston, particularly the Friday and Saturday after midnight. The last two weekends have both had a call out where, whilst chatting to the caller at the door, they have offered the fact that they had called at
Yes, we are 24 hours – for emergencies Read More »
Turns out you can put a lat/long into Google maps. You need to use the following format: http://maps.google.com/?sll=53.616%2C-002.816 sll tells Google it is Lat/long, and then you enter it with xx.xxx,yy.yyy format, same as usual. (%2C is the URL safe version of a comma) When you press go, you will see a map of your
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