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The cartoon pig with the stutter was Porky Pig and from Warner Bros Looney Tunes cartoons not Disney. He's the one that does the "That's all folks at the end" . The recent complaints against Disney are generally about race in the way that Black characters are stereotyped although they'll...

Possibly Birmingham's most successful singer or songwriter and one of her best songs. Pity there's no video attached to the sound recording.

My best source online is at https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol7/pp501-548 . I tried a text search for the word board (ctrl F on the page). Most of the results are board schools but there are occasional references to boarders or boarding although all of these are in Grammar Schools...

It helps to know when they lived there - if only roughly. I've looked through a bunch of old directories from 1898 to 1965 and there's no mention of either name at that address. Admittedly they wouldn't show up if the directory didn't list that address (it's missing several times) or if they...

You can try running the old software in compatability mode but what does the software do? It might be worth trying to replace that. On the other hand here's someone's idea of a solution for replacing a paritcular kind of RS232/USB driver...

What is your web browser? Chrome has a language setting separate from the rest. Since this is probably an Android tablet and chrome is default, it might be worth checking there. Look in settings on the browser (not the tablet) for languages - it might be hidden under advanced.

RS232 was a cable interface not a protocol. As long as the two devices it connects have the socket it should work. As to the software that allows them to talk to each other, that's a different matter.

If you need to replace Works there are probably a few other programs you can try. If nothing else there are things like OpenOffice that do the same thing, use the same files and come as a free download. https://www.openoffice.org/download/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ From...

Prefer this track but no arguments. they're good. I think they slowed down when the kids started.

Rather than just have the old stuff we already know, let's try something recent.

There were so many versions of that song. As far as I can tell this is the original singer if not recording (hew wrote it and recorded it in 1949.

This one shows up when something can't get at the data certificate for a site or the site doesn't have one. It might mean that the server that houses the relevant certificate is having problems or is being blocked by your ISP. If you try again and it no longer has that trouble it's an issue with...

Could be the Malt Shovel - different place. the building is still there but it's not been a pub for some time add to that it's near Moseley Road rather than half way down.

the convention by that time was that there were TV programmes and computer programs. As far as I can remember the only computer programmes were things like Tommorow's World (on the BBC).

The standard ebook service is available at the moment through an app called either libby or overdrive (depending on version etc of your computer/tablet. You can get at the library's regular ebook stock that way and you do need a library card for setup. I haven't yet been able to find this thing...

These are scans from Kelly's directory 1965. Not everyone is a shop.

I always thought it odd that there were so many pubs around Digbeth that had the same or similar names. Mostly there was just the Bull's Head but there were two Spotted Dogs as well (that one and Alcester St).

You might like this http://bullsheadbob.blogspot.com/2019/04/bulls-head-bob-april-2019-dave-peace.html It does mention the band but mostly it's an obituary the guy who seems to be the centre of it.

DuckDuckGo still use advertising but, because of their non-intrusive policy it's going to be based on what everyone wants or, at least, everyone using their searches wants. So you get what people are asking for. If you look for stuff in a particular area, there's a chance that you'll get house...

There are around half a dozen real search engines and a lot more that compile results from searches made on them. DuckDuckGo used to be owned by Google so I'd suppose they're either just using Google or the same spiders to compile the list. You should get different results from the likes of Ask...