Recent content by Mark Tooze

Increase the number of decibals. 1000+ plus should do the trick...........

Telling them (briefly!!) you know its a scam and you are passing it to the police will usually end the call. Telling them to "go forth and multiply" can have the same effect. Otherwise I recommend playing a VERY loud noise (like a car hooter) down the phone - if you cant stop the bugger then...

Lovely sight last night - super-thin crescent moon and Venus hanging right below it:- If you caught it at the correct time you could see Earthshine on the unlit portion of the moon - this is through the spiders web of the telegraph pole by our house:- It is difficult to get any detail on...

I was there that day - you could hear the crack around the ground - horrible!

I can remember being at the front of the Witton End - Easter 1976. We were playing Derby and the Derby fans found the bricks and rubble at the back of the terrace and decided it was a good idea to lob them onto the front of the terrace. Only time I ever went onto the pitch - as did a lot of...

It seems that when (???) the trains finally run they have to go at a slower speed than designed as it will be too expensive to run them at full pelt. Next we will have to have a person with a red flag walking in front of the train for health and safety reasons....... Also - am I the only one...

Super photos!!!

Happy Birthday!!

Odd to think that Dollman St now contains more of historical Birmingham (in the Museums Collection Centre) than anywhere else!

Hi Johnny thank you for your kind words - sorry if write-up was a bit technical but I could not word it any other way. Box Brownies could give excellent photos - I have hundreds of old family negatives taken with this type of camera. The only major difference with the type of kit above is that...

Hi Johnny; these were taken with a Canon EOS750D DSLR camera, and a Tamron 150-600 4.5-6.3 Superzoom at full zoom. All but the latest Jupiter shot were handheld, but only because I could not be bothered to get a tripod out. The more megapixels in the camera chip the better - the 750D has 24.1MP...

Jupiter on Feb 28th:- Moons from the left - Callisto, Europa, Io, Ganemede

Clear skies again last night (a rare occurence at present) - got Jupiter and 4 main moons (left to right Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io):- And a gorgeous moon:-

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....)