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Recent content by Keith R

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    Computer help please 2025

    I tried using the stuff on the link and got nowhere............no sure it went to "explorer" with windows + E. As I say I have zero understanding of computers.
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    Computer help please 2025

    Sorry not been on all day.....No I haven't found the file yet.
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    Computer help please 2025

    It bought up stuff like when you google search...top one was Microsoft Learn and just a Q and A thing...
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    Computer help please 2025

    yes thats what I used
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    Computer help please 2025

    just put that into search and worryingly lots of others asked similar things.........lot of which I dont understand as about all I can do is turn a PC on.
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    Computer help please 2025

    I have windows 11 on my P.C. and in Pictures I have folders for 2025 and 2026 as well as other things like phone pics......now all of a sudden when I was editing pics the 2025 folder went missing. I have looked through other things like downloads/documents and recycle bin and no sign. I can...
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    Aston Villa May 2026

    We got there early at 2.30 to get near front.....exhausting hours to wait and then the main bus didn't park in middle ....as well as it being low down on the tramway......good job we was near the screen though.....BUT no idea HOW they laid on all this in very few hours since winning....HS2 needs...
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    Typhoo Tea Bordesley Street Digbeth

    When at Knights Printers in Oxford St - off Bordesley St we used to overprint Typhoo Tea boxes and during the 3 day week in 1974 while most of us was " enjoying " time off the guys on those machines had to go in as it was deemed as essential food packaging.......3/4 years later Typhoo was...
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    Sunday Mercury

    Thanks for the info about it being Birmingham Weekly Mercury and for putting the page up.....the cottage is where my next door neighbour was born in 1928 but its now just a car park.
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    Sunday Mercury

    A general question.... Is there anywhere I could look at an issue of The Sunday Mercury 15th July 1973. I have newspaper access on FindMyPast. But cannot find if its possible to do it. I want to see an article as I only have access to 1/2 of it at the moment...also the picture that goes with it...
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    Typhoo Tea Bordesley Street Digbeth

    I know ...I used to work all around here for years....still a few back to backs when I started.....these are portrayed as the pits but on recent visits to the back streets ....not far from the Typhoo building it really is the pits.Was busy busy with all sorts of businesses but now run down with...
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    IN OUR GARDENS 2026

    Thanks yes they seem to live in next doors large garden but this one likes to sun bathe in ours.
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    IN OUR GARDENS 2026

    Keep seeing this chap(ess) any time of day or night....
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    Typhoo Tea Bordesley Street Digbeth

    Brilliant that people can again live around here - probably Millionaires though. Just keep the graffiti merchants away.....
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    Peregrine falcons on "Old Joe" Birmingham University clock tower

    Here's one from Hollymoor Tower Northfield........apparently pigeon fancies will kill them now I have put a picture on...but apparently they won't from all the other many sites in south Brum....
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