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I get the feeling that the guy who wrote that article doesn't know what he's talking about. From what I remember that part of the city had a problem with toxic chemicals in the ground. If that's true the picture shown isn't going to be the sort of thing that would work. You can't plant anything...

If Malvern St is anything to go by, the usual purpose of such things is education with any real claims to agriculture some way behind. There have been occasions when the hens' eggs are sold/used for food but that is rarely advertised and there's the odd picture of a whole fleece from when they...

If you're just taken with the one song then you're ok with youtube. If you like the voice you might want this https://archive.org/details/EdithPiaf268Songs There are two versions of the whole set for download in either ogg or mp3. ogg is usually better quality but you need a better player.

Any particular reason you're looking for this stuff? I'm working on a massive archive of material for St. Paul's who run the Malvern St. Farm. If this is some formal project or personal research maybe arrangements can be made but they don't let a whole lot out. The pictures and text on...

There are some odd ideas from the guy who's planning to complain. Something about this being outside of the "tall building zone" seems quite bizarre since this is the opposite corner to the Sentinels (previously the tallest buildings in the city) and across the road from that green glass hotel...

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See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arte_Johnson for the origin of the quote - an old Errol Flynn picture.

This might not be what it looks like. I'd guess this is one of those rotating cameras used to take photos of large groups. That means you'd get some distortion away from the centre of the picture. Although the entrance to the building is shown to be closer and the rest of the building angles...

You shouldn't have to go that far but, since that's the largest in the building, it's probably easier. The library has toilets scattered throughout the building and not terribly well signposted. They don't have any on the ground floor for some reason or close to the cafe on the ground...

There are less local groups displaying in the spaces of the Library of Birmingham because the spaces are so large. They also have more formal organisations that will fill those and the smaller galleries within the building. This leaves local groups to mount exhibitions in local libraries. I have...

There's a thought, how many vaguely "central" libraries has Birmingham had? Apart from the ones mentioned so far.The Birmingham Library on Union Street that seems to have been a subscription/membership one dating from the back end of the 18th Century and still around in the 1840s. Another one...

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-sparkhill-pool-18-months-10466853 This is why they've been taking so long to knock it down. There's so much asbestos been used in the building that keep having to stop to decontaminate the site. It's a wonder some of the old swimmers...

The computer age began long before most people realise. In the year I was born, 1957, IBM sponsored a movie in the vain hope of promoting its wares. Unfortunately the movie was a romantic comedy with Spencer Tracy as the computer programmer/installer and Katherine Hepburn as the prime user. The...

I thought Lightroom came with some versions of Adobe Suite so if you've got Lightroom you should also have Bridge which will do the sorting and display without having to worry about it moving things. Zoner is an equivalent of Picasa although it doesn't have Facial Recognition or mapping that I...

The problems with picasa are :- it likes sharing. Your pictures could wind up on the internet if you're not careful. It also creates a lot of little (or not so little) files wherever it finds pictures. They're usually invisible and called .picasa. It also has a fair-sized database file. Other...

We could take the coffee house in the picture as 127, which makes Dartmouth Stores the hardware shop, and the pub ... As to the number before and after Dartmouth Stores in the picture, I suppose that could be 125 but it looks more like some kind of bottle design or 25% so it may or may not be...

https://pubshistory.com/Warwickshire/Birmingham1915/BirminghamBeer1915DE.shtml Lists two places on Dartmouth Street "Ernest Dalton, 163 Dartmouth street" and "George Henry Doyle, 130 Dartmouth street". I disregarded Grand Junction for the length of the name and because pjmburns says it was on...

From looking at the picture, it's the New(?) (?) Inn. It's not on the corner of any street which means not the Raven, Grand Junction, or Old Green Man. The name is on the wall above the bracket for the lamp. Inn looks clear enough but the first word or two - I'd say two short words of 3-4...

Much of what I remember about Hudsons doesn't make sense. I remember they kept Penguins apart from the other books but not that far apart. In some cases a different version of some classic would be with the rest in a different publisher's edition and also in the Penguins. I remember John Beynon...