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I crossed-paths at Christmas with a retired social worker who worked in that area and I am hoping the two of us and the necessary technology can get together in the near future and put together some more background. It would be nice if someone recognises themselves! I was thinking that maybe...

Christmas party time at New John Street West! Some strays that I found in another box.

I am interested in getting a copy of a photograph in a book that the author said came from Birmingham libraries. Just after Christmas I visited the central library. My first problem was finding it! I found the building OK but all I could find inside was a cafe and a theatre. There was an...

Are the tramways staff trying to form letters? They certainly look organised into groups.

Merriam-Webster says "from fainaigue to renege". OED gives Renege: to deny , renounce. Renege on: fail to keep (promise etc.) disappoint (person). Surely not much different from your understanding?

"Cat: The small animal, of course, but in slang it means something that looks, sounds or simply is absolutely awful. It’s short for cat malojan, which is probably short for the phrase, cat on a melodeon. You can imagine that a cat standing on a melodeon is likely to make an awful sound. That is...

Irish spelling craic, An enjoyable time spent with other people, especially when the conversation is entertaining and funny. [Cambridge Dictionary]

From Merriam-Webster dictionary: Finagle - transitive verb 1: To obtain by indirect or involved means 'finagle a ride home'. 2: to obtain by trickery 'finangled his way into the concert'. intransitive verb to use devious or dishonest methods to achieve one's ends First known use 1924...

Thanks for the info. on the bus as I had noticed it looked different. The Mini Clubman Estate dates the picture to 1972 I would have thought. My first car was the same model but COH and shared the K suffix.

Guilbert53, no doubt that should work but then there might be sounds that I should want to hear. The particular event that I would like to stop is especially annoying because in many ways I have been 'good' to Win10, i.e. I have given it plenty of time to carry out its actions and my reward is...

Thankfully Windows 10 is mostly free, (out of the box), of all those 'sounds' of earlier versions, like the fanfare when starting up. However there is one residual sound that really irritates and which remains even after I had a go at trying to get rid of it, (I probably failed because I don't...

From the ZoneAlarm website: "ZoneAlarm is the consumer brand of Check Point Software Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: CHKP). With nearly 100 million downloads, ZoneAlarm protects PCs from viruses, spyware, hackers and identity theft. The award-winning Internet security product line is installed in...

The excellent warwickshirerailways.com website perhaps provides the answer (and some good contemporary descriptions of the station). Here is the 1838 layout, consisting of six roads linked by 12' turntables. The roads must be sensibly placed if only to fit the turntables in. From a modeller's...

No, can't be because the track leaving the station is standard gauge. There would be no point in having a tiny bit of broad gauge in the station. Besides broad gauge was a Brunel idea used on the GWR, never on the L&BR.

Interesting trackwork on the right-hand side! The 'six-foot', the space between adjacent lines, is considerably smaller than the 'four-foot', the space between a set of running rails. Either the artist has made a mistake or the two tracks serve different purposes. Perhaps the left-hand track is...

Birmingham Interchange? Old Oak Common - 'Old Oak Common is a new super-hub set to be the best connected rail station in the UK'?

I had the little bedroom over the stairs too. Unfortunately various items from previous houses hadn't yet found a home and the room also was a store for all those items needed for decorating, like step ladders. The result was that it became a terrifying place for me at night, all sorts of...

When operating on a branch line the time taken to move the engine from one end to the other becomes significant at each end of the journey. The 'autocoach' would allow a 'local' to use a bay (dead-end) platform at a main station and simply to reverse at the end of the branch. The introduction of...

A wartime friend of my father decided to research and write a kind of history of the squadron that he served as an aircraftman. He must have spent a fortune as he had a copy of every page and had them bound into three volumes, about nine inches high. After he died I spent ages editing and...

A lot of HS2 in the south is now planned to be put in tunnels or cuttings as a result of concerns of residents. Could this St. Mary's tunnel be an earlier example as it has surely been constructed by 'cut and cover', i.e. a cutting has been made first and then a brick arch tunnel constructed and...