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The shop seems to have moved and changed size a few times. The one I remember had a large frontage on Navigation Street (where Waterstones basement entry is now?) possibly in addition to an entrance on New Street although I can't entirely be sure of that. I seem to remember the lower floor had...

I think a lot of it is what you get used to as background levels. Nowadays most people take a shower every day, I was used to washing "the bits that show" every day and a bath once a week. Go back even further and hot water is something you have to boil up in a kettle.

More likely they don't have the coverage they used to. I vaguely remember getting something through the door in the last couple of years so I assume they must still do house-to-house but I don't think it ever paid a great deal.

Last time they did this sort of thing it was compiled from interviews and went out on radio once a week for best part of a year. I doubt that will still be on the website 'tho.

Cortana and similiar aren't exactly "idiot applications" the idea behind voice communication with the device has been around for a while but with the reduction in interface size - the new assistants are mostly being sold for mobile phones and smaller - they fill a need in replacing mouse and...

Voice Recognition (like Cortana) generally improves with a little training. https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/5266/windows-10-tip-train-cortana-to-know-your-voice

The Avon Lady didn't die out https://www.avon.uk.com/PRSuite/home_page.page

Yes and Yes. In the 60s the two halves were connected by a tunnel that ran under the High Street. I remember it was a good way to avoid the rain.

since you would have tried to upload this from the UK, you could argue that the copyright had expired on the recording. It would have been out of copyright at the end of 2007. Since it's YouTube.com they'd probably go by U.S. Law where the copyright is still in force unless it was taken from a...

You can get tablets for most price ranges - even reconditioned ones at places like CEX - in most cases you can get a keyboard of some sort fairly cheaply that will plug in if necessary. Android, the operating system on most tablets, is a version of linux which means there's a lot of free...

https://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/ukcs/docs/edupack.pdf is supposedly the standard guidance on UK copyright. The last page has expiry dates and that's where the 50 years comes from. I would suppose that anyone reissuing after 50 years is either issuing something altered enough to make this a...

Two things turned up in a check on copyright. The right to copy owned material doesn't seem to exist in this country but the fair dealing clause from the new act seems to exclude a lot of the non-commercial uses. The current copyright on sound recordings is still 50 years after the end of the...

As I remember it, you have the right to make one copy of a record that you own provided it is for your own use or just as a backup. That was the legal reason that broke some of the copyright protection systems in the early days of CDs.

Most burning programs (see above for link to a free one) have a facility to copy disks without the need to make a copy on your hard drive. If you're copying music, you might be able to get more than the original CD onto the new one by taking tracks from other CDs.

If you haven't got a burning program it's worth trying the free version of Ashampoo. https://www.ashampoo.com/uk/gbp/fdl It says it works on Windows 10 but it's been good on every previous version.

Re: Moseley Swiming Baths Open Day Moseley Baths still runs one pool most of the time. I've seen parties of school children come up to the baths for lessons. It's not been up to capacity for a long time and it has closed for long periods when things degrade too much but there is still a part of...

I'd guess the single letters before the full description refer to the medium. The Ms seem to be mosaic. Ts might be Tile. If the list was in a book or some other form of print, it's probably worth looking at the beginning or end for a key. I don't suppose it's a complete list by any means. All...

The list is at https://risk.historicengland.org.uk/register.aspx?rs=1&rt=0&pn=1&st=a&di=Birmingham&ctype=all&crit= although some of the details aren't as accurate as they should be. I spotted some errors on the entry for Moseley Art School (they say it was sold in the 60s but it was still in use...

https://robspaintings.com/ Not so much of the historical material and the style is more cartoony than regular paintings but this guy paints birmingham scenes that some of you will recognise and, if you can see the captions, he does have a sense of humour. He sells most as framed, unframed or...

I accept you've seen changes but I wouldn't be so sure that your grandparents didn't. https://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/song-midis/I_Cant_Find_Brummagem.htm The link is to an old folk/music hall song from the early 19th century lamenting on all the changes that have been made to "Brummagem" in...