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I am also having difficulty in logging in to BHF, what has changed? Using Firefox with DuckDuckGo. Also no option to select essential cookies only, I’m told . ”We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information...

Re; Cookie consent, would it be easier to ad a “Reject All,” button!

I remember well the efforts to protect exposed film from the light when removing it from the camera. 127 and 620 films were prone to winding loosely. Before investing in a proper darkroom bag, I folded up a rain coat around the camera then by inserting my hands and arms up the sleeves the wrong...

Try adding a little methylated spirit or white spirit to them, you may be able to reconstitute them.

A well exposed and processed black and white picture cannot be beaten. just look at Ansel Adams prints. They have stood the test of time and would be spoilt if they were colourised.

Bit of History for you in the mid 1960s a 20 exposure cassette of Kodachrome sold for 25 shillings and 2 pence. A sliced loaf of bread was a shilling. So a cassette of colour slide film was expensive, A colour enprint was 2 shillings and 9 pence, almost three loaves of bread. In the latter...

Yes Ilford did make a colour film, it was called Ilfacolor. It was awful, it might have originated in Eastern Europe or Italy. It was certainly similar to Orwo or could have been Ferraniacolor. Incidentally Orwo make incredibly good B&W film and are a major supplier of 16mm and 35mm cine film.

Buy 120 film and rewind it on to the 620 spools. Bit fiddly but film size is the same only the spool ends are different.

They were small because the paper they were printed on was a long roll having been exposed the roll was taken out of the printing machine in to the processing lab where it was developed and fixed still on the roll. It was not cut until the pictures had been dried. The paper rolls came in various...

Yes, they trade as separate companies. But the service stands out far better than anyone else with call centre staff you can understan.

I’ve been with PlusNet for 15 years, fantastic customer service, from call centres based in Yorkshire. would not consider moving anywhere else.

Our favourite was the Slow Boat, in Digbeth. Chinese Alf. C

We use to have regular trips to Birmingham. Old shopping habits die hard. But the city centre is now a disaster area as far as we are concerned, even trips to the jewellery quarter have now been stopped. For shopping areas to be successful they have to have quick free and convenient parking...

Great picture with lots of atmosphere , in the years before long trousers I used to hate getting “Chaps on my legs”. Sore fingers and thumbs were cured with “Melrose,“ It’s still available today but unfortunately no longer. 1/3d that’s one shilling and three pence.

My earliest memories were of the snow, in 1947, and dad chasing me around the kitchen table, all wrapped up in our coats and scarfs. Mom was in hospital following the birth of my younger brother. Dad did not light the coal fire he was trying to preserve the stock we had for when mom came home...

Snowdrops spotted at the end of November.

We live in a village in South Yorkshire, three houses from the end of the copper cable and 800 yards from the green BT box. We receive between 4 and 5 mbps. As I understand it, if we converted to fibre at considerable increased monthly cost our line would be converted to fibre into the green...

Hello Smudger, something is wrong at your end, I have no problems connecting to Curry’s / PC World, works every time

I have found I can work and surf without Google! It’s just so good knowing that not every click and movement is being recorded and analysed, Alf.C