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Happy Birthday Viv. Hope you have a great day.

Acocks Green

Coldlands wood is still there, a favourite for dog walkers although a bit muddy in wet weather! It runs behind the houses in St Helens Road.

I don't think this windmill has any connection with the Lode Lane mill shown in post #10. The layout of the land is wrong as the area around Lode Lane Mill is relatively hilly whereas this windmill is in fairly flat open countryside. After a bit of digging I discovered that St Bernard's Road was...

Silhill Hall's owners up to the'60's were the Forster family. My brother was friends with the son John and I remember collecting him from a party there late '50's or early '60's. I think the family had spent quite a bit of money on the place and the room which housed the party was beautiful...

My rhododendron seems to think it's spring again!

Hi Smudger. Have you sorted it yet? If not, is the sound coming out of the speakers distorted or is the noise coming from the computer?

AnnS. To do a safe tidy-up click Start and in the search box at the top type Disk Cleanup. All the options can be selected unless you don’t want to empty your recycle bin. Check that your hard drive has plenty of space left. I guess you have a fairly modern laptop and your storage is an SSD...

As you say your laptop has slowed down (rather than has always run slowly) suggests it may be worth doing a bit of 'housekeeping' - i.e. removing clutter and checking that you are not running unnecessary programs in the background. Before I go into details, are you running Windows and if so...

It’s a poppy! I grew a few of these from seed but planted them in some pretty poor soil so the result isn't too good. However the one I planted in the front garden was beautiful but has now finished flowering but you can see the seed pods!

Was met by a similar situation today except that fortunately my bowl remained in one piece as it landed on a fleshy plant. The bowl had been in place for over ten years so I think the sooner we catch the golden eagle or whatever the better!

John 6000. Sorry I have to disagree with your comments on these photos! Comparing them with my many pics from that era I would think that they ARE all dressed in their 'Sunday Best' the boys in their suits with starched collars and bow ties and the men in their suits and bowler hats with the man...

Entering Knowle from Warwick direction

The Post Office on High Street opened in 1857. It moved to Warwick Road in 1911 and then on to Station Road in the 1940s. That building was opposite what is now the entrance to John Lewis (with the revolving door) and was at the time the last building in the Station Road row of shops, the...

Evans and Kitchen?