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pjmburns, yes, astoness who I regular send PM's to, the other was Postie and have just tried it with you, still no success. Eric

Unable to send PM's, as soon as I start the text or enter subject title the recipients name vanishes, is there a general problem or is it just me ? Eric

GEC was my first job when I left school in 1944 and worked in the drawing office but it was causing eye strain and left the following year the month the war ended. Eric

oldMohawk, have switched Autoplay off and altered settings, now all back to normal, like you said it was probably an update that caused the problem, thanks for help - and thanks to all who offered suggestions, saved me calling an engineer in. Eric

Thanks jukebox, will try that. Eric

I can no longer put CD/DVD's onto my Windows 10 PC to "My Pics" or "My Documents", when I insert disc to DVD player I get a black screen with a multicoloured Emblem with the words media player. This started a few weeks ago, any ideas ? Eric

Thanks David, their styles are so similar which made me think it was the same artist. Eric

Are Frank Sidney Smith and 'Smudge' Smith one and the same person/artist ? the styles are identical, both naïve artists, paint every brick and tile. I am not belittling him/them L S Lowry was the same and he was a great artist someone I admire very much. Eric

Richarddye, Yes what wonderful subjects they had in old Birmingham, now we have glass, concrete and steel, hardly paintable subjects. I love painting old Birmingham but now I have to rely on old black and white pics, although there are still one or two paintable subjects, Saint Chads, Saint...

the Windsor was the first pub I took my Wife to before we were married, I introduced her to Pimms No. 1. This would be 1952 Eric

Thanks Dennis, Yes I remember them signs above the entrance, Frankie Laine was a favourite of my Wife's. mine was Frank Sinatra, both now long gone. Eric

Was their a night club called the "Night Out" in town, I remember about 60's or 70's going with my Wife to see Frankie Laine, Frank Carson was also on the bill, I can even remember the meal - T bone steak. Eric

I have painted it 8 times but 4 of them I have no visual record as I sold them without photographing them first, Have attached another one. Eric

As a watercolourist, canals were one of my favourite subjects, especially Gas Street basin before it was "modernised", have attached one of the many paintings I have done of this spot in the 80's e

We lived in Shirley during the war which our Mom and Dad thought was fairly safe so we were not evacuated. Wrong decision, a bomb landed close by damaging our house (we were in our Morrison shelter at the time) but 3 weeks later house repaired and we were back in it and no more close calls...

Strange, when the old trams disappeared in early 50's whoever thought they would come back ! I certainly did not. Eric

OuterCircleBus, the 3X tram was replaced by the 39 bus (see attached painting), the 78 Short Heath tram was replaced by the 65 bus (which I used to use when I lived of Slade Road, as you say the 64 bus replaced the Erdington No. 2 tram, I forgot which bus replaced the No. 79 Pype Hayes tram. Eric

Its just passing the Sycamore pub, one of my locals. There was a tram stop in front of the pub (hidden by the tram) were I used to catch the 3X, later the 39 bus. Aston church bottom of hill where my Mom and Dad were married mid 20's. On the right would have been Aston Park. Eric

Bushbaby, the Tram that came down Park Road was the 3X Witton to Martineau Street via Aston Cross, later (about 1950) replaced by the 39 bus. I used to catch both to work in the 40s/50s. Eric

1st pic in post 124, 2nd chimney down on the right top of hill is /was my house No.43 , was there 1961 to 87, one of the reasons we left was because of the steepness of the hill, my Wife found it difficult lugging the shopping up. Eric