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I remember there being a lot more tinned food about when I was young. Then we got fridges and freezers and tinned gave way to frozen. All of it was pre processed in some way which probably changes the taste a lot but preserves the food so it remains edible longer. In more recent years food seems...

A lot of the time it is the same tea. Regular supermarkets will sell own brand Red Label tea in either bags or loose. The difference between bags and loose is in the strength of the brew. You get to decide how much goes in with greater precision.

At the moment the upgrade to W10 is free but that will expire. That's the only reason you should do this now rather than later. Windows will drop support for the older versions over time and once that happens, various other programs will cease to support those versions. If you're using a PC for...

https://brianwilliams.org.uk/diary/1941.html provides a more technical view of that and the following night when things got worse.

I took Latin for a few years in grammar school. The translation is close enough to the spirit of the phrase to work. Even in English "trades" implies business rather than manufacturing nowadays. Artficiorum refers to the craft rather than the object. The good thing about learning latin is that...

The Birmingham Post archive for that period is still on those negative rolls but the access is through a few computers with special equipment on the 4th floor. You will need someone working on the desk on the 4th floor to book you time on those computers and show you how to work the equipment if...

I don't remember when I first saw the sea. I know I was taken to see my Grandmother and Aunt in Eire when I was very young - still a baby. I suppose this would have been by ferry so there's a sea to be crossed there. Definitely between 1957 and 1960.

The New Inn - the one at the top of Edward Road - was supposed to become a pharmacy at one point but that never happened. It was offices for a while but I don't think it's in use now.

https://www.search.birminghamimages.org.uk/Details.aspx?&ResourceID=10391&PageIndex=1&KeyWord=moseley%20arms&DateFrom=0&DateTo=2015&SortOrder=0&ThemeID=0 Can't provide you with a proper image for various reasons but this is the one that's online from our archive. The Clock was just the nickname...

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/library-birmingham-open-12-hours-9733821 More news. This time Brasshouse is moving in or something like that. The library is supposed to be open 12 hours a day in the week but nothing is said about Saturday and there's no chance of Sunday...

Freeserve was an ISP rather than a browser. I think they were using Internet Explorer then although an older disc might have had something like Mosaic. Freeserve was set up by Dixons/Currys in 1998. After a change of name (Wannadoo) the ISP was sold to Orange. If you use online email with Orange...

The lost streets from the exhibition were mostly the old court system ones. When the place was levelled there was a lot of space that didn't necessarily conform to the old street patterns. On top of that they changed the streets to stop through traffic - one of the things that killed the...

I suspect electronic instruments will suffer much more from the coming of fully computerised systems than traditional and electric will. Admittedly there is less of a show to computerised stuff than there is to electronic but the sound/music shouldn't suffer.

As far as I can tell, Birmingham City Council has never been behind the Birmingham Jazz Festival. I think it used to be run by the Birmingham Jazz Society and now seems to be down to Big Bear Music (at least this year and last). To further rub in their failures, they do have a detailed list of...

Worse than that, if you google Jazz Festival UK Moseley is number 4 (and two of the higher listings aren't individual listings) but Birmingham isn't on the first page - it's at the bottom of page 2.

I don't think the problem here was a lack of funding as something that the organisers did wrong. The printed programme didn't show up until a week or two before the start date. The programme gives times of events, names of venues, details of the acts, and prices where appropriate but it doesn't...

The idea was to tell people it was there and that they could find out for themselves. I know my tastes aren't everyone's so I mention it anyway. Surprised this thread hasn't mentioned the Jazz Festival yet. https://www.bigbearmusic.com/festival-2015/ It starts on Friday. Oddly they don't seem...

How recent are the "as now" photos. Last time I saw the restaurant next door (last Wednesday) it still had scaffolding and I thought the sign was in a worse state than that. Some of the plans that seem to be current as per the article seem ill thought out. Why would someone want to build a...

I'd not heard of Talking Pictures as a separate channel, it used to be a show on Sky Arts (which ran on Virgin). Renown Films seems to have a lot of old movies but although they list 273 items on their site, most are listed 2 or 3 times and some are BFI and other labels. Then again, some have...

After failing to get into the Vaults at the old Municipal Bank on Saturday, I went across the road to the ICC. There I discovered that they had a band in the bar playing a 2 hour set. Apparently they've got this as a regular gig one Saturday in the month (or at least they're back next month on...