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According to kelly's in 65 and 72, 281 Ladypool was a fancy goods shop not hardware. It had been a toy shop before that. They just call it "Gift Shop" and it was on the corner of Trafalgar Avenue (?) part way between Clifton & runcorn. The photo was taken of an event at St Barnabas in the early...

This might also be of interest in these days when printed versions aren't available. https://maps.nls.uk/ I know it's the library of scotland's collection but it does seem to cover most of the UK.

The only films I remember seeing at the Cinephone was a double bill of Straw Dogs and Death Weekend. I think they must have moved to horror films at some point and this was closer to that. I'm surprised that there was any difference between And god created woman between the UK and Germany. It...

There was something on the news this morning about the next version of the vaccine. This should be a single shot rather than the two for the first version. They say it should be approved soon and that the government has ordered 100 million doses. I don't know who they're planning on vaccinating...

I found this old article from 2013. https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/information_regarding_the_counci_2 At that time the "quarterly chimes" (and presumably the hourly ones too) had been broken fro around 15 years and theyhad just paid £7257.80 to fix them. Because of noise complaints (5...

In the seventies? A bit early for that.

Our office had a main computer with a bunch of terminals. As far as I know it would have cost a lot to put any games on that. In the 80s they started buying in smaller computers. The first ones were a series of Amstrad computers. The first of those stood on a secretary's desk for months while...

Curious. What games did you get to play? What kind of computers were these?

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...