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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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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....