A couple of years ago Mike Shattock moved into his new house in a suburb of Peterborough, set up his home office and got on with the daily grind of work. One morning, while on a particularly boring Teams conference call, he was staring out of the window absent-mindedly watching a man in his 70s jet-washing his driveway across the street. As the Teams call droned on, Mike saw the man disappear into his garage and return with an unmistakable object which he began to clean. “I know a Lambretta frame when I see one,” said Mike. “Strangely the connection broke down on Teams at that very moment… I hurried over to chat with my new neighbour and asked if he knew what he had. His reply took me by surprise. ‘I should do, it was my mum’s,’ he said,” explained Mike. With that simple
