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That photo was part of a set of photos on "Vanished Birmingham" the Birmingham Mail published here: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/vanished-birmingham---amazing-buildings-9450956 But if you scroll down to the bottom of that page you see two comments added pointing out two...

And 3 minutes 25 seconds in to your video you have a scene of a roundabout on a canal. You may be interested to see how it looked about 30 years ago

Sean 5 minutes in to your video you shows the reflections in the new silver border round New Street station. Well here is a photo I took just a few weeks ago of the same thing

Excellent video which captures the city centre very well. I go up Birmingham a lot taking photos of the city (mainly buildings) but you have taken many shots of the buildings around the city far better than I have ever done, you obviously have a good "eye" for angles and composition (trained in...

The Latin and ancient Roman alphabet did not have a letter U and the letter V was used in its place. Gradually U came to be used as the vowel form and V as the consonant forum. One web site I found says "For a very long time, U and V were allographs. What’s an allograph? An allograph is a...

My guess is to spread the load they will download the huge file over a number of days (or even weeks) so it is then ready on people's hard disk before they release the final "install" command. I hate to think of the chaos when thousands (or even millions) of people try to install Windows 10 at...

Fitting an SSD is not difficult. SSDs are the same physical size as hard disks that go in to laptops so on a laptop they can just go in the same slot in place of your existing laptop hard disk. This assumes you have easy access to your laptop hard disk (most can be accessed by removing a panel...

I guess 3 main reasons: 1) Most laptops and desktop PCs have a hard disk in them and when you start your computer the disk has to start spinning and then all the programs are read off this disk and loaded into memory. A spinning hard disk is a fairly slow thing (in computer terms) so Windows...

In the days before tablets and smartphones Windows could handle the "simple" stuff (browsing and emails) but could also handle the very complex stuff (writing software programs, video editing etc.) What the tablet and smartphone has done is enable people to do the "simple stuff" on a small...

One may say what was wrong with the engine in the Ford Anglia but it does not stop Ford (and others) producing new engines every few years. New engines have new features and utilize new technology, as does new versions of Windows. Windows XP came out in 2001 (a long time ago in computer...

Just to sum up the Windows 10 situation. The Windows 10 FINISHED product is not available yet. Some of you may have got the little icon on your Windows task bar saying "Get Windows 10" but this is only to register your interest. Windows 10 is not likely to be available until July or August...

Lots of facinating stories on here, a lot of them about drums so here is my "drums" story. I am not a musician, and never have been, but I have always been a fan of all sorts of music. I must admit though I do tend to focus on drummers when I see a live band. Many years ago I was a fan of...

The Len Goodman Big Band Bonanza was on BBC4 the other day (first shown way back in December 2014). Covers the Swing Band era of 40s and 50s with a fair bit on the Ted Heath band, and others of course. Lovely segment near the end of a lot of older big band members (ex Ted Heath etc) meeting up...

This buildings in MORE than a library, it is now a Birmingham tourist attraction. I go up to Birmingham a lot taking photographs, particularly at weekends, and there are always hundreds of people in Centenary Square and nearby, and many of them want to go up to the balconies and gardens on the...

For those interested in how Paradise will change over the next few weeks and months see the update I posted on skyscraper City here: https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=123329140&postcount=2594

Those changes don't actually start until 10th of May so it is more like stay away from Paradise NEXT month. In fact road works and diversions have already started in that area (they started in January) so it is probably a good area to stay away from totally by car. Best to go up by train or...

Sadly a lot of the area around the old library, such as Paradise Forum, is awful. Unattractive concrete, graffiti, rubbish, even homeless people sleeping rough. The council should be ashamed of themselves that an area like this exists in the centre of the city. The sooner the whole thing is...

Was Jackie in a wheelchair, and did she live near Shirley or Solihull? If so I think I may have met her purely by accident about 6 months ago in Currys / PC World in Shirley. I was walking round the computer section of PC World and saw this rather elderly lady in a wheelchair being pushed...

Note Fletchers Walk is not open all the time (this is the strange passage way underneath the Conservatoire that had shops in it) I don't think it is open at all at weekends. But you can still walk under the old library to get from Chamberlain Square to Centenary Square. I should imagine...

There are a number of possible development projects planed for Digbeth area, including Typhoo Wharf. See here: https://bigcityplan.birmingham.gov.uk/digbeth/ My guess is that most of these wont actually happen till the HS2 train line comes into that area. The HS2 station is due to be built...