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The Birmingham Post archive for that period is still on those negative rolls but the access is through a few computers with special equipment on the 4th floor. You will need someone working on the desk on the 4th floor to book you time on those computers and show you how to work the equipment if...

I don't remember when I first saw the sea. I know I was taken to see my Grandmother and Aunt in Eire when I was very young - still a baby. I suppose this would have been by ferry so there's a sea to be crossed there. Definitely between 1957 and 1960.

The New Inn - the one at the top of Edward Road - was supposed to become a pharmacy at one point but that never happened. It was offices for a while but I don't think it's in use now.

https://www.search.birminghamimages.org.uk/Details.aspx?&ResourceID=10391&PageIndex=1&KeyWord=moseley%20arms&DateFrom=0&DateTo=2015&SortOrder=0&ThemeID=0 Can't provide you with a proper image for various reasons but this is the one that's online from our archive. The Clock was just the nickname...

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/library-birmingham-open-12-hours-9733821 More news. This time Brasshouse is moving in or something like that. The library is supposed to be open 12 hours a day in the week but nothing is said about Saturday and there's no chance of Sunday...

Freeserve was an ISP rather than a browser. I think they were using Internet Explorer then although an older disc might have had something like Mosaic. Freeserve was set up by Dixons/Currys in 1998. After a change of name (Wannadoo) the ISP was sold to Orange. If you use online email with Orange...

The lost streets from the exhibition were mostly the old court system ones. When the place was levelled there was a lot of space that didn't necessarily conform to the old street patterns. On top of that they changed the streets to stop through traffic - one of the things that killed the...

I suspect electronic instruments will suffer much more from the coming of fully computerised systems than traditional and electric will. Admittedly there is less of a show to computerised stuff than there is to electronic but the sound/music shouldn't suffer.

As far as I can tell, Birmingham City Council has never been behind the Birmingham Jazz Festival. I think it used to be run by the Birmingham Jazz Society and now seems to be down to Big Bear Music (at least this year and last). To further rub in their failures, they do have a detailed list of...

Worse than that, if you google Jazz Festival UK Moseley is number 4 (and two of the higher listings aren't individual listings) but Birmingham isn't on the first page - it's at the bottom of page 2.

I don't think the problem here was a lack of funding as something that the organisers did wrong. The printed programme didn't show up until a week or two before the start date. The programme gives times of events, names of venues, details of the acts, and prices where appropriate but it doesn't...

The idea was to tell people it was there and that they could find out for themselves. I know my tastes aren't everyone's so I mention it anyway. Surprised this thread hasn't mentioned the Jazz Festival yet. https://www.bigbearmusic.com/festival-2015/ It starts on Friday. Oddly they don't seem...

How recent are the "as now" photos. Last time I saw the restaurant next door (last Wednesday) it still had scaffolding and I thought the sign was in a worse state than that. Some of the plans that seem to be current as per the article seem ill thought out. Why would someone want to build a...

I'd not heard of Talking Pictures as a separate channel, it used to be a show on Sky Arts (which ran on Virgin). Renown Films seems to have a lot of old movies but although they list 273 items on their site, most are listed 2 or 3 times and some are BFI and other labels. Then again, some have...

After failing to get into the Vaults at the old Municipal Bank on Saturday, I went across the road to the ICC. There I discovered that they had a band in the bar playing a 2 hour set. Apparently they've got this as a regular gig one Saturday in the month (or at least they're back next month on...

For those intending to go and wanting to visit the vaults. As you go in, you're given a numbered ticket and (probably) will see a line of people headed for the vault tour. The ticket is to be handed in as you get to the start of the tour. The number doesn't have any significance. If there's a...

I didn't come to Birmingham until '63 and I think my first official GP was Dr Mason but since it was a surgery with several doctors I could wind up with Dr Maher (I'm sure that's how it was spelt) or Dr Wand. I'm still with the same surgery but I rarely use it. I'm told it takes two weeks to get...

Most tablet operating systems are smaller than Windows. Android is cut down from a mix of two old versions of Linux. This means two things. 1. The operating system actually does less things. 2. It takes less time to load. This doesn't always mean that tablets load up instantly. My old tablet...

There are lots of reasons for regular upgrades that don't involve what you see. There were supposed to be serious changes in the security system in some of the OS changes. I get the feeling the new version will push toward online rather than internal storage as everything seems to be going that...

When were these pictures taken? The lighting is a lot better on them than it was on Saturday. It would have been nice to see what the rest of the place looks like but there is a lot of space roped off as unsafe. There's supposed to be a film for the cinema event but it wasn't available at the...