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Something that isn't quite what it seems. deagostini are putting out one of those magazine partworks with old Beatles vinyl albums. They are also selling subscriptions to the set. The set runs to 23 albums. Those of you old enough should have realised that the Beatles put out less than a dozen...

As far as I can tell Paddy Finn (who came from Dublin) was only ever owner? / Landlord of "The Dubliner" not the Barrel Organ before it or Subside after. Would that be right? Then again, despite spending all that time in the Barrel, I never really knew the management.

The old Barrel Organ is now called Subside (website at https://www.subsidebar.co.uk/ ) with what seems to be a new ownership (see "The Team" on the site). I haven't been in there since it stopped being the Barrel. There were stories at the time that it was being bought by the company that owned...

Microsoft works hasn't been free for quite some time. The official download sites for Open office https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html Libre Office https://www.libreoffice.org/ WPS Office https://www.wps.com/download Open office has been taken over by apache and the most recent...

Sometime in the early part of this century Microsoft integrated Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer so they're part of the same thing and part of Windows itself which is why you can't remove IE as you would other programs. Edge is supposed to replaced IE so I assume the same goes for that...

System restore takes the system back to one of the "restore points" that are usually created when you make adjustments to the software on the computer. With a little luck you should have several of these from after you upgraded to Windows 10. What you need to do is work out when you started...

Taking inflation into account and the multiple screen cinemas increased capacity, I wouldn't be surprised to find that most modern cinemas aren't doing anything like as well as they were 40-50 years ago before the advent of home video, massive TV screens and High Definition transmission. Then...

Some of it depends on what you think of as walking distance but I think you've missed the ABC New Street from your old list and a new list might include the Mockingbird at the Custard Factory.

I was never entirely able to distinguish Imports from the standard UK issue and, even then, a lot of the imported stuff I have seems to be second hand no matter where it was bought from. I have the odd few albums that must have been imported but I can't always tell whether the shop did so or if...

Possibly a more tenuous connection in that his father (not he) was a local MP but there's John Amery (son of Leo) executed for treason in 1945 as a recruiter for the Nazis.

Not sure if you'd call it a subway but there's the paths by the road that goes under the ringway by the mailbox. I'm not sure about the subways by St Chad's - they were only ever partial and the same goes for the ones going to the island by Horse Fair.

For what it's worth, my career in COBOL was spent on the accounting/stock control section of S Rose & Co, (then in the old Typhoo building). The magazine scans mentioned in the post were of the (Balsall) Heathan which ran from 1973 to 2015. We now have (digital at least) copies of all of them...

It's a long time since I tried Voice Recognition and, although it took time to set up, it did show some promise then. I know things have improved since - if nothing else, people get it to work out of the box - but it seems to be as accurate as it was. OCR is usually pretty good and I have used...

Not necessarily, some of the old Roger Corman films were definitely played for laughs.

Quatermass II not the first series.

As I understood it nobody much had TV before the coronation (1952) and, at least 'round our way, they weren't in every home until the 60s so either your terrace was pretty lucky or you've screwed the dates up somewhere because it sounds like you had TV before 56.

It doesn't look like that ever happened as the Park still goes all the way to the Pershore Road. According to a rough map from 1870 Calthorpe Park ended at the Rea. This was before they moved the river so that would mean the back of the park hasn't really been extended that way either. If...

A few others and some referred to:- Ready Player One (2018) - The Spielberg film mentioned The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) - In cinemas now Prostitute (1980) - the sort of thing we'd rather forget Work Is a 4-Letter Word (1968) - Somewhere there's a crowd scene with my dad in the background...

Around the time of the 3 day week I was working for the Inspector of Taxes. I can't remember exactly which office I was in at the time although that early I would just have been a clerk (filing, getting customer details and passing them on). I'm not sure if my father was still working for the...

Depending on where in Edgbaston, you have different options for the closest park. Cannon Hill is at one corner, Calthorpe is closer to town, there's a lot of parkland by the reservoir... You're not likely to find out unless there's something enduring and specific to go on. There's no guarantee...