I bought an old scrapbook at a car-boot sale, with dozens of newspaper cuttings of First World War poems.

Many are by someone called Ricardo, who wrote under the heading "Lays of a lowly Londoner", although the poem in Poetry Corner (right) is by Henry Chappell, who was a railway porter at Bath Station and known as the Bath Railway poet.

I would like to know more about the poets, especially Ricardo.

If anyone can find a good use for it, they can contact me. I'm sure someone will find it as fascinating as I did.

My phone number is 01892 852632.

-Pat Curtis, Rotherfield