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There are less local groups displaying in the spaces of the Library of Birmingham because the spaces are so large. They also have more formal organisations that will fill those and the smaller galleries within the building. This leaves local groups to mount exhibitions in local libraries. I have...

There's a thought, how many vaguely "central" libraries has Birmingham had? Apart from the ones mentioned so far.The Birmingham Library on Union Street that seems to have been a subscription/membership one dating from the back end of the 18th Century and still around in the 1840s. Another one...

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-sparkhill-pool-18-months-10466853 This is why they've been taking so long to knock it down. There's so much asbestos been used in the building that keep having to stop to decontaminate the site. It's a wonder some of the old swimmers...

The computer age began long before most people realise. In the year I was born, 1957, IBM sponsored a movie in the vain hope of promoting its wares. Unfortunately the movie was a romantic comedy with Spencer Tracy as the computer programmer/installer and Katherine Hepburn as the prime user. The...

I thought Lightroom came with some versions of Adobe Suite so if you've got Lightroom you should also have Bridge which will do the sorting and display without having to worry about it moving things. Zoner is an equivalent of Picasa although it doesn't have Facial Recognition or mapping that I...

The problems with picasa are :- it likes sharing. Your pictures could wind up on the internet if you're not careful. It also creates a lot of little (or not so little) files wherever it finds pictures. They're usually invisible and called .picasa. It also has a fair-sized database file. Other...

We could take the coffee house in the picture as 127, which makes Dartmouth Stores the hardware shop, and the pub ... As to the number before and after Dartmouth Stores in the picture, I suppose that could be 125 but it looks more like some kind of bottle design or 25% so it may or may not be...

https://pubshistory.com/Warwickshire/Birmingham1915/BirminghamBeer1915DE.shtml Lists two places on Dartmouth Street "Ernest Dalton, 163 Dartmouth street" and "George Henry Doyle, 130 Dartmouth street". I disregarded Grand Junction for the length of the name and because pjmburns says it was on...

From looking at the picture, it's the New(?) (?) Inn. It's not on the corner of any street which means not the Raven, Grand Junction, or Old Green Man. The name is on the wall above the bracket for the lamp. Inn looks clear enough but the first word or two - I'd say two short words of 3-4...

Much of what I remember about Hudsons doesn't make sense. I remember they kept Penguins apart from the other books but not that far apart. In some cases a different version of some classic would be with the rest in a different publisher's edition and also in the Penguins. I remember John Beynon...

The shop seems to have moved and changed size a few times. The one I remember had a large frontage on Navigation Street (where Waterstones basement entry is now?) possibly in addition to an entrance on New Street although I can't entirely be sure of that. I seem to remember the lower floor had...

I think a lot of it is what you get used to as background levels. Nowadays most people take a shower every day, I was used to washing "the bits that show" every day and a bath once a week. Go back even further and hot water is something you have to boil up in a kettle.

More likely they don't have the coverage they used to. I vaguely remember getting something through the door in the last couple of years so I assume they must still do house-to-house but I don't think it ever paid a great deal.

Last time they did this sort of thing it was compiled from interviews and went out on radio once a week for best part of a year. I doubt that will still be on the website 'tho.

Cortana and similiar aren't exactly "idiot applications" the idea behind voice communication with the device has been around for a while but with the reduction in interface size - the new assistants are mostly being sold for mobile phones and smaller - they fill a need in replacing mouse and...

Voice Recognition (like Cortana) generally improves with a little training. https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/5266/windows-10-tip-train-cortana-to-know-your-voice

The Avon Lady didn't die out https://www.avon.uk.com/PRSuite/home_page.page

Yes and Yes. In the 60s the two halves were connected by a tunnel that ran under the High Street. I remember it was a good way to avoid the rain.

since you would have tried to upload this from the UK, you could argue that the copyright had expired on the recording. It would have been out of copyright at the end of 2007. Since it's YouTube.com they'd probably go by U.S. Law where the copyright is still in force unless it was taken from a...

You can get tablets for most price ranges - even reconditioned ones at places like CEX - in most cases you can get a keyboard of some sort fairly cheaply that will plug in if necessary. Android, the operating system on most tablets, is a version of linux which means there's a lot of free...