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    Windows 10

    Thanks jukebox, will try that. Eric
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    Windows 10

    I can no longer put CD/DVD's onto my Windows 10 PC to "My Pics" or "My Documents", when I insert disc to DVD player I get a black screen with a multicoloured Emblem with the words media player. This started a few weeks ago, any ideas ? Eric
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    Artists Who Painted Birmingham Landscapes

    Thanks David, their styles are so similar which made me think it was the same artist. Eric
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    Artists Who Painted Birmingham Landscapes

    Are Frank Sidney Smith and 'Smudge' Smith one and the same person/artist ? the styles are identical, both naïve artists, paint every brick and tile. I am not belittling him/them L S Lowry was the same and he was a great artist someone I admire very much. Eric
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    Artists Who Painted Birmingham Landscapes

    Richarddye, Yes what wonderful subjects they had in old Birmingham, now we have glass, concrete and steel, hardly paintable subjects. I love painting old Birmingham but now I have to rely on old black and white pics, although there are still one or two paintable subjects, Saint Chads, Saint...
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    City Centre pubs

    the Windsor was the first pub I took my Wife to before we were married, I introduced her to Pimms No. 1. This would be 1952 Eric
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    Thanks Dennis, Yes I remember them signs above the entrance, Frankie Laine was a favourite of my Wife's. mine was Frank Sinatra, both now long gone. Eric
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    Was their a night club called the "Night Out" in town, I remember about 60's or 70's going with my Wife to see Frankie Laine, Frank Carson was also on the bill, I can even remember the meal - T bone steak. Eric
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    Gas Street basin

    I have painted it 8 times but 4 of them I have no visual record as I sold them without photographing them first, Have attached another one. Eric
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    Gas Street basin

    As a watercolourist, canals were one of my favourite subjects, especially Gas Street basin before it was "modernised", have attached one of the many paintings I have done of this spot in the 80's e
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    Evacuation Of Children World War 2

    We lived in Shirley during the war which our Mom and Dad thought was fairly safe so we were not evacuated. Wrong decision, a bomb landed close by damaging our house (we were in our Morrison shelter at the time) but 3 weeks later house repaired and we were back in it and no more close calls...
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    Metro Extension to Centenary Square and beyond

    Strange, when the old trams disappeared in early 50's whoever thought they would come back ! I certainly did not. Eric
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    Old tram routes in birmingham

    OuterCircleBus, the 3X tram was replaced by the 39 bus (see attached painting), the 78 Short Heath tram was replaced by the 65 bus (which I used to use when I lived of Slade Road, as you say the 64 bus replaced the Erdington No. 2 tram, I forgot which bus replaced the No. 79 Pype Hayes tram. Eric
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    Old tram routes in birmingham

    Its just passing the Sycamore pub, one of my locals. There was a tram stop in front of the pub (hidden by the tram) were I used to catch the 3X, later the 39 bus. Aston church bottom of hill where my Mom and Dad were married mid 20's. On the right would have been Aston Park. Eric
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    Old tram routes in birmingham

    Bushbaby, the Tram that came down Park Road was the 3X Witton to Martineau Street via Aston Cross, later (about 1950) replaced by the 39 bus. I used to catch both to work in the 40s/50s. Eric
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    Gravelly Hill - Slade Road / The Slade

    1st pic in post 124, 2nd chimney down on the right top of hill is /was my house No.43 , was there 1961 to 87, one of the reasons we left was because of the steepness of the hill, my Wife found it difficult lugging the shopping up. Eric
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    Gravelly Hill - Slade Road / The Slade

    I like post #127 of Hillside Road in Winter, my late Wife and I lived there 1961 to 1987 at 43 (just of the pic to the left) at the top of the hill were it the became Chartley Road. Eric
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    Bodega in Birmingham

    My late Wife and I (who I first met in a dance at the Masque Ballroom in Christmas 51) often went to the Bodega whilst visiting the City centre in 52 and 53, I introduced her to Pims No. 1, it has many happy memories to me I was in the RAF at the time. Happy days. Eric
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    Old tram routes in birmingham

    Bush Baby, No, trams were never on Park Lane, only the No. 8 inner circle 'bus route which crossed Aston Cross and continued down Rocky Lane towards Nechells. Eric
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    Lion Hall Whitehead Road Aston

    My late Wife who was a keen Ballroom dancer (had medals for it) told me she often went dancing at Lion Hall in 40's and right up to when we met Christmas 1951, although I never went with her, we went to the Masque and other venues. Eric
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