Does anyone know if Mike Howell / Howells spooky content on the specialpatrolgroup.co.uk web site got moved to somewhere else? I've searched on tlb for any references to this but nothing came up. I've got several links to his site but they all give the reply that the specialpatrolgroup.co.uk web site domain name is for sale - not your usual "Error 404 Page not found" if just one entry has been deleted but the rest are still there - so presumably the whole site is gone. Example link https://www.specialpatrolgroup.co.uk/spooky/index.html His site was still being linked to from here as late as 2019 (those links now give the same result as above). It would be a shame if all his stuff has been lost.
That site was going and well established 25-30 years ago. Maybe he died, it happens. That's the thing with the internet you die but live on for a while - if you use a free domain you live forever.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190424042040/http://www.specialpatrolgroup.co.uk/spooky/index.html The Wayback machine has it all as far as I can tell , because its not a silly server side scripted modern site. Seems to have stopped in 2019, as all captures after that are "domain for sale" Though why anybody wants to name their website after either a comedy show hamster or a brutal group of policemen I dont know..
Brilliant, that's the stuff I'm looking for. Thanks Mike. I'd forgotten about the hamster: https://theyoungones.fandom.com/wiki/Special_Patrol_Group
I remember the sliding door sill job as a lesson in how to make what's usually a fairly simple "repair in place" job into an epic 10x as tricky as it needed to be. Before anyone blindly follows this kind of advice (which people did), it's very sensible to step back and consider if you really need to take it apart to that extent. In all my van repairing years I never once completely removed the door track sill like that - it was always a better bet to leave it in place where you knew the door would line up.
