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I think the purpose of the 'dome' was to save the dial! The girls used a pen for filling in tickets and would use the pen to help dialling. A plain pen end would soon score the number plate, eventually requiring a new dial to be fitted.

I think I might have finally put a name to lost cousins. The search started with a name written in an old address book, the internet 'writing down' a street view helped match the address to an old photograph with limited information 'written down' on the back. The familial ressemblance suggested...

Chunk Foundry listed in the 1918 Directory of Manufacturers located at River Street, Deritend - suggests the use of water power?

Wikepedia has a version of that picture that it claims came from The Illustrated London News 3 June 1854.

I recently obtained some photos that were mostly labelled on the back, not always correctly. (In particular one of a lady was said to be of an aunt - non-blood - but I would put money on it being the mother of the writer as his son was a dead-ringer for her). There is one on a post card, a note...

People already contribute to BillionGraves.com and FindAGrave.com etc. both free resources. Even stone tablets wear away, some faster than others.

One problem with 'basic stuff', the letters, the photographs, is that they end up in the wrong place. Back in 1849 two brothers from my extended family emmigrated. One went to Canada, the other to Australia. The Canadian brother wrote to the Australian brother giving a fascinating account of...

Will all the data be there anyway? "However, even the state-of-the-art web crawlers used by the UK Web Archive have technical limitations and are currently unable to capture streaming media, deep web or database content requiring user input, interactive components based on programming scripts...

I recently gained some photographs as a result of the death of a relative. His father had written on the back of some of them, I suspect not always accurately, while others had unhelpful remarks like "Mary and myself". It just happened that an old letter from my mum fell out of a family history...

I have read some of the guidance on archiving websites, a lot like other archiving guidance it's mainly about preservation. To use the library analogy again, its about wrapping the book up and putting it in a deep freeze so that in a hundred years time a specialist researcher will be able to...

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If electricity was charged the same way as petrol you would be paying about 34.8p per kWh! If 'everyone' goes electric will that be what will happen?

One can set up a website and domain name, just as now, but the bills get paid by the charity. While one is living one pays the charity. Imagine you have a dog. Every week you go out to Tesco and buy tins of dog food, the dog gets fed and lives. You drop dead, the dog doesn't get fed and it...

I have just cleared a house out. I found 15 memory sticks, then someone else found one in what we thought was an empty box. Paper records can be leafed through in seconds, the same with printed photos. Digital data can be a pain to find for the person that created it, how can we expect others to...

Web storage is cheap, it almost certainly costs more to purge and recover space than to reclaim it. Nevertheless there are costs involved. A charitable foundation has the potential to maintain active ownership of websites, possibly changing webservers as hosting companies make changes. A...

Having written it down we publish it on a website, making wonderful connections around the world and adding to the story! But how do we ensure that that information endures? The big companies might not last forever and in any case their policies might change, (I think I have some blog comments...

My father worked as a development engineer for Rover and I have spent quite a bit of time sorting through his papers and putting them on my website. It does concern me that once my domain name and web hosting packages expire that all that material will be lost and might only survive on a hard...

Mr Winkley or Mr Boosie? Did The Birmingham Post get the caption wrong? Mr Boosie was the one getting to ride the new electric locomotive according to the text.

This railway?

"Air Anglia commenced operations with a small fleet of Douglas DC-3 "Dakota" piston-engined airliners (see heading image) as well as a number of smaller, "executive" type of aircraft inherited from its predecessors. With these aircraft it mainly operated oil and gas industry support flights from...