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The differences are more likely to be seen in internet pages than actual programs. The big Desktop operating systems generally have a smartphone counterpart that is much smaller and uses much smaller programs and Android is different enough from Linux that there's not much crossover there...

You never can tell. A lot of teams only drop for one season and go straight up again. Blues have been pushing the top end at various times in the season (though, not at the end) for the last few years so there's always a chance.

It's a high rise hotel. There's another (big green thing) a few hundred yards away and it's right next to the albany and a small multi-story car park. I would have thought that a lot of the clients would come by rail as this would be the closest hotel to New Street Station. Apart from the bulge...

True, but then I wasn't born in Birmingham. Like my mum, I'm from Croydon - south of London and a target for raids because of the old airport. I've lived in Birmingham since the 60s.

I vaguely remember my mother's account of being outside during a raid. Some woman let mum into her house between the time the doodlebug's engine stopped (they used to sound like a motorbike) and the thing exploded sending shrapnel everywhere. That was about as close as it gets without being fatal.

Sometime in the 80s I used to go to the Acafess on Friday nights to listen to the Jazz band. I can't remember what most of the name stood for but it began Afro-Caribbean. The place was on the Moseley Road in Highgate. The gigs used to go on pretty late and with the same house band (Steve Ajao on...

In the 70s and 80s I bought a lot of vinyl records from various shops around the city and, for some reason, I still have some of the plastic bags they came in. It seems that most of the old record shops had their own designs that they either kept up or changed over the years. Anyway, I...

It's been going on a lot longer than that. There's an old song from the front end of the 19th century complaining about how much has been knocked down or just disappeared. https://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/song-midis/I_Cant_Find_Brummagem.htm Even the place names aren't based on what the...

It always varied between where and who. I was born in Croydon (south of London) and still have a lot of relatives who live around there. One of my aunts would always say she lived in New Addington (or just Addington) which is to Croydon something like what Solihull is to Birmingham yet she...

I never heard of him with the "Norway" name before although I (re)read "On the beach" with a group a few months back. If you're working through everything, this might be of interest. https://www.nevilshute.org/biblio.php

Depending on how you define London, I would have said 4 or 5. On the other hand, Liverpool don't have a cricket team (they have to share with Manchester). To stay up Villa have to win 5 from 6 games but Swansea are now irrelevant - The next three are Norwich, Sunderland, and Newcastle although...

As I remember things all of the non-fiction was in reference and not available to borrow but I've heard different things at different times. Is this something that has changed over time or did it just depend on what library you used?

As I remember it, you had to belong to a particular library to take books out, so you'd have a set of cards for the closest libraries and the Central library. The local ones didn't have that many books but they seemed to hold on to them longer and there'd be a different selection in each local...

I forget too much of my early years. I couldn't say for sure but I probably visited the library before I came to Birmingham. Once I came here, the local library would have been Central or Moseley road (Balsall Heath). Considering my mother's attitude to Moseley road (and most of the streets...

All I've found is this 6 year old government survey. The categories are generalised so there's no way of knowing whether "Do own research" includes historical research or what percentage of that figure is historical...

It's true the old dog's home is now a car park but it's not that one. The pictures you're showing are on Deritend High Street just down from the Old Crown. The dog's home was on New Canal Street close to the old Typhoo Building.

I would suppose you have some kind of subscription to a genealogy site if you're still working on a family tree. It might be a good idea to see if that site has its own software or has something that is compatible with the Mac.

Re: Birmingham typhoon tea makers of bordesly street digbeth I was surprised to find out some years back that my dad's first job in Birmingham was at Typhoo there. He would have been a shop steward/union rep in the early to mid 60s. I can't find out any more than that - he died without...

Re: Birmingham typhoon tea makers of bordesly street digbeth It hasn't been empty that long. I worked in that building up until April 2001 when the company I worked for closed down. At the time they were only using about half of the building and the other was either a furniture company or extra...

Since my internet access is restricted by something that blocks the Wayback Machine on archive.org I can't do this but... There is a program called Httrack that will download a website given a base address to a folder on your home pc. You can find copies at...