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  1. johndavies

    General Service Medals

    Immersion in any form of citric acid ( vinegar or lemon juice) or coca cola (yuk) will clean both non precious and silver medals. There are firms advertising on Ebay that offer a complete restoration of medals and replacement of ribbons at a very reasonable cost. I had my fathers medals restored...
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    Temples of Relief

    Mc Donalds is the closest. The signs on the closed gents directs you to conveniences in a shopping mall...that is guarded by an attendant collecting an admission fee. There was no way...no matter how desperate I was...Mc Ds became my temple of relief.
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    Bogarts

    :( nods indeed, very strong lager. A party of us went there to celebrate passing our finals... 7 litre steins of lager went down my throat that night, so legless was I that I got seperated from the party and decided to stagger home to Aldridge on my own. I managed to reach an underpass and...
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    Bogarts

    Is this the Bogarts beer keller in New St with the German oompah band pam?
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    Holy Trinity Church Birchfield

    Hi jennyann It was not at all unusual to be without a christening certificate because certainly at Birchfield church the certificate was an optional extra. My parents had to pay 2 shillings for mine which equated to a fifth of the weeks rent money, my father had to collect mine on pay day. It is...
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    Holy Trinity Church Birchfield

    :DI'm sure that an inducement of a small monetary donation would ensure a visit to the vestry with Canon Eve ;)
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    Holy Trinity Church Birchfield

    :D Never slow in coming forward Lyn..and I am very competitive but I guess this particular race was out of our control. Apparently the church is open on Wednesdays between 11-12, if you get there any sooner you may become actively involved in the service... and the natives are very friendly :D...
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    Holy Trinity Church Birchfield

    Thank you for those Lyn, I was in the church recently myself as I too was christened there in 1951. I had the opportunity to talk to the vicar, Canon Eve and a number of the congregation about the history of the church and its current state of repair. £100,000 needs to be raised to renovate the...
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    Cemetery Records.Key Hill and Warstone Lane

    I may be corrected but I am sure the only indexes that exist for these cemeteries are held by the respective cemetery offices as they are still accepting interments. I think you will need to phone or write to each of them, I understand Witton staff will often do a simple search free of charge...
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    Rationing

    Struth Ray, that proposal begs the question where they intended getting the human blood from. There was a huge shortage of transfusion blood which means there was only one other source...the dead! Illogical reasoning perhaps but Im now off the Black Pudding for life.
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    Rationing

    Mike So at the bash when all of the bacon butties, chips and roasties have disapeared very early on we will know where to look...thats if you get to the table before me that is. John
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    Rationing

    Hi Mike Though a child of the fifties I was always encouraged to clear my plate and like you this conditioning has maintained my comfortable figure to this day. The inference of Bernards post was that the population was fitter on low fat diets, advice that is still valid today though my point...
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    Rationing

    Indeed Bernard though I was not born until 1951. I think the general fitness was due to activity rather than the lesser consumption of animal fats and sugars. There were far less cars and sedentary employment,folk walked and cycled and were far more active than today. Diet and inactivity is the...
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    John Baskerville

    Thank you for that Dennis, very interesting. The sketch indicates a mummified cadaver with some tearing of the abdominal skin. I understood contemporary reports suggested there were "decomposition vapours" that a dessicated body would not produce. There may have been some artistic license in the...
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    Dudley Hippodrome (Pictures) - November 2010.

    Marvellous photos thank you. So Dudley council have spent public money to dismantle a building to give an uninterrupted view of a derelict castle that sits so high it can be seen from miles. Im sure the residents of Dudley will be queuing to stand where the hippodrome once stood to admire the view.
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    Vanishing printer ink

    I tried refilling the black cartridge but on the new models Lexmark have become cute. Once the chip notes the cartridge empty, it will no longer feed ink to the printhead even though it has been refilled.
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    Vanishing printer ink

    This printer ink issue is scandulous..almost legalised theft by the printer manufacturers. Gone are the days when you could just refill the cartridges, they now contain microchips that unless reprogrammed will not accept refills. I have an old dot matrix printer that I bought with my Amstrad...
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    Vanishing printer ink

    Thanks Bernie, a very interesting site. They did a report on the S505 (mediocre quality printer) but no ink useage test. The cheapest Kodak wireless printer (essential) is £160 so Im cutting my losses and buying a set of new ink cartridges from inkcycle, a little under £29 for a full set of new...
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    Vanishing printer ink

    Thanks for that Bernie, I reckons the salesman was telling porkies when he told me the cartridges suppiled were full. Will go to PC World and have a look at the Kodak printers.
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    Vanishing printer ink

    Thanks for that Shortie, this is a complete mystery. Evaporation is possibly the answer.. and as far as I know there are no fairies in the house printing in the middle of thhe night. I know that head cleaning uses a great deal but its something I have never done... Will have a look at Cartridge...
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