wndawmn, I believe your discovery is EXTREMELY significant.
The ‘1’ in ‘10th April, 1959’ appears to be a COMPUTER-generated 1 (number one).
If that is true, then the typewriter typeface is a digital version of a typewriter typeface, NOT generated by an authentic typewriter.
Shades of Dan Rather’s IBM Selectric! LOL
I speculate that a forger unwittingly typed the number 1; then when (s)he got to the other instances of the number 1, remembered to type the lower case l (letter ‘el’) because typewriters used the lower case l for the number 1. Likewise, the creator of the Bomford document typed the upper case O (letter ‘oh’) for the number 0 (zero) because typewriters used the upper case O for the number 0.
Right now, to verify my memory, I’m looking at some old recipes I typed on file cards. My beautiful, expensive, German-made Olympia typewriter even provided fractions, but its 1 (one) was definitely a lower case l (el) and its 0 (zero) was definitely an upper case O (oh).
Based on the document’s computer-style 1 (one), I therefore conclude that the Bomford birth registration is a forgery, a FRAUD.
I had one of those too; mine was a portable in a molded case. I received it as a graduation gift in 1956 and my parents had my name engraved on it. I discarded it only about 10 years ago.