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Phil, As you say, the best option is the free VLC. In my experience, converting from one video format to another always results in some loss of quality, probably due to the differing compression algorithms used. Maurice :cool:

Glad I finished my most enjoyable supper a while ago! I remember seeing almost daily a pile of cattle heads on a trolley complete with eyes but skinned (a right bloody mess and I'm not swearing) outside a wholesale butcher in Bournemouth - a right gory spectacle, and I always looked the other...

Lyn, Yes, please as one of my DORMANs was living there at some stage. Thank you. Maurice :cool:

That's when you play the vegan card, Mike :) Maurice :cool:

Pete, I notice that young lady hasn't put any of that exotic food in her mouth yet - we have a before picture, where is the after one? :) Maurice :cool:

Mike, I've never seen anyone eating eyes here or even pig's trotters, though quite a few of them eat snails. If I wanted to chew rubber I've got one here on my desk. :) Maurice :cool:

I had to put up the Fauré one as I'm in my second childhood, Pete. :) Just been busy with yet another war memorial project in Bournemouth for the last few days & probably most of next week, so not a lot of time to stick stuff on here. We've also got the roofers in at the moment. Maurice :cool:

Here in Greece offal is frowned upon. The only organ that ever appears on menus is liver and onions, not dissimilar to the UK, so my other half tells me as she likes a lot of that sort of stuff. So if you buy a chicken or a turkey, it rarely has the liver & kidneys left in it. One of the large...

I can eat Marmite because I know what it was made from, but something's brain - that's a big no-no. Maurice :cool:

If it ain't psychologically right, then I won't eat it. In other words, YUK! :eek: Maurice :cool:

Hi Joan, And welcome to the Forum. He seems to have dropped the Simmonds on the prison registers on FindMyPast where there are three separate records that have a date of birth with a year of 1887 and a place as Birmingham. There may be two others not in Birmingham and I haven't looked on...

Here's your coat, Alf! :) Maurice :cool:

Steve, I knew several who worked there in the late 1950s, but all names now escape me apart from one, Gordon Parsons, who had been at school with me Maurice :cool:

Here's one that you all know from Listen With Mother, but did you know the title? It's the Berceuse from the Dolly Suite by Gabriel Fauré played by the Labéque Sisters:- And while we are playing lullabies, here is Chopin's Berceuse - the pianist is Jayson Gillham. Maurice :cool:

A French composer this time - Gymnopédie by Erik Satie Maurice :cool:

I was searching YouTube for a march that teachers used to march us into assembly with at College Road Junior School. Not surp[risingly is doesn't exist on there. But here's about the only piece that same composer was remembered for these days - Praeludium by the Finnish composer Armas (Edward)...

Steve, Was that in the days when the Public Works Dept used to be in the Civic Centre, now Baskerville House? Or am I going too far back for you? Maurice :cool:

Yes, that photograph in post #5 is certainly pre-1940 and probably a lot older than that. In my 1940s childhood that was my favourite place to paddle with a thick bed of soft green waterweed under your feet. In those days the bridge was a fairly new wood construction, whereas when I last visited...

How I wished I had had a camera to take some similar shots in my younger day, but I didn't get my first camera until I was 20 and processing film was quite expensive and I guess I had so many other things on my mind. If only we were blessed with the foresight to see 50 or 60 years ahead at that...

Well, here are a few snippets from the original film and the minuet starts at around 3.50 - great film and I bet the U.S. remake was awful, though I've never seen it. You can't beat some of these Ealing studios films. Maurice :cool: