Recent content by Mark Tooze

Map from 1887 shows a signal post:- But I think this was run from either Erdington or Sutton boxes. I have a book somewhere which will have the answer - will look it up later

Check out the MACE website - loads of John Swallow videos on there (and Tony Maycock and Chris Tarrant and Peter Green and....)

Mind you - the "Boys Modelling Room" looks good......

Great site - visits twice a year, if you were lucky.......

Remember folks - every time you hear of a company's data being "hacked" this can be one of the results. Data is sold on the open market to scammers who operate scams like the one above. If in doubt tell them you will ring back and immediately hang up - you can find the correct contact numbers on...

I love 2 things about these very old photos:- 1) As the very old ones are mainly from large format glass plate negatives the level of detail on them is usually stunning, even when you zoom in. 2) As the process for taking a glass plate photo was so long winded they were not "snapshots" - in the...

Brilliant photos again!!

Brilliant Photos!!!

Terrific photos Lyn!!!!!

For the first time in about a fortnight we had a relatively clear night last night. Had the opportunity to photograph Jupiter at approx. 9pm, 10pm and 11.30pm - so you can see the movement of the Galilean moons over a shorter period of time - from the left Ganymede, Europa, Io, Callisto:- 9pm:-...

On some (not all!!) photos you can do a right-click, "save image as"

Try doing a PrtSc (print screen) or ctrl-shift-s to take a screen capture of it - then you can save it as a pdf or into a word document, etc.

To quote Dr McCoy from the above episode "Great machine the M5 - no Off Switch".......

Please watch Star Trek, original series - "The Ultimate Computer". This was made in the mid-1960s and sums up AI perfectly.....

I took the dogs to the Streetly side of Sutton Park on Saturday afternoon for a good run - as a result of recent storms and snow bits of this side of the park look like a bomb has dropped - looks like the park rangers and the sawmill are in for a busy few weeks:-