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The style of jacket worn in conjunction with a kilt has shoulder tabs. My feeling is that the image is 'over-zoomed' to the point that resolution, grain and scanning anomalies are allowing the eye/brain to create patterns that aren't there.

Too much trying to see a pattern that might not be there I think! Playing that game there is 'clearly' a priest standing behind him! The 'target' man might just be wearing an apron, perhaps a market trader heading to the bank? The man on the left of the cropped shot and the man above him might...

Has no-one posted 'going around the Wrekin', (or variants)? "All around the Wrekin", "Right 'round the Wrekin" or "Running round the Wrekin" is a phrase common in Shropshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire, the Black Country, Birmingham to mean "the long way round", in the same...

I am not so sure that the UK was well-placed to supply the world. Because we were first our railways developed from horse-drawn waggon ways and carriages and that was a big factor in determing our loading guage which still limits what we can do on existing railways. The Empire meant that...

Hardly fair! The first picture is taken late afternoon and the second, early morning. Besides bus 4649 has just gone past and has turned onto the High Street! For obvious reasons Google tend to take their photos when traffic is light.

The UK has just followed the same pattern as all other early adopters of railways, private builders, railway company builders, international builders. It is inevitable that as rail vehicles become more complex and railway requirements more standardised that there will be fewer companies...

Just allocate everyone to one of the three 8-hour shifts at a 'tractor factory' located within 50 miles of their allocated dormitory module and, after 25 years faithful service, they can apply for a permit to visit The Great Leader's Palace in London, ('off-peak', of course). Perish the thought...

You did win a form 4/2 prize though and were a vice-captain of St Andrew's!

So who was Jill?

If you have a Freeview adapter then re-scan that, otherwise re-scan the digital channels on the TV. Quest, QVC, Drama, 5USA, ITV2+1, 5Star, Paramount Network, ITV3+1, Sony Movies Action, Channel 5 +1, TJC, 5Select, ITVBe +1, ITV4 +1, Blaze, CBS Reality, Horror Channel, TCC, Blaze +1 are some of...

Some people with the same error code have fixed the problem by: 1. Disconnect the aerial 2. Re-scan the channels (with no aerial) 3. Connect the aerial 4. Re-scan the channels.

Is this an early instance of 'fake news'? The picture looks as if it dates from before the building was finished as it doesn't have the tower on top. The US papers of the time say that the fire was put out in 40 minutes. Incidently the pilot came from Birmingham... the other one! Fourteen people...

You are right about the sizes. Though the first 'Bullet Train' line was just 320 miles long, which isn't as far as London - Edinburgh which surely could benefit from a high-speed line.

A new inter-city line needs a new route so to some extent there will still be the same objections as to HS2. Some of the trains on HS2 are intended to operate on existing routes so as to permit through trains to destinations not on the the HS2 line. The days of adding extra carriages to a train...

HS2 estimates that they will add 13,000 peak hour seats on the West Coast route and that the West Coast Main Line is already near capacity after its last upgrade. Any future upgrade of the WCML only has the potential to add 3,000 seats. See their claims here.

Bejam? (You have to be 'of a certain age' to get that one!)

I am sure that our fish were blue, now they seem to be red! The wrapper has a list of emotions or feelings that “cause” the fish to curl and move in certain ways If you see just a moving head, it means jealousy. A moving tail is a sure sign of indifference. If you see a moving head and a...

Earlier I questioned Margaret Green's claim that the location of the bier cart was unknown. Looking at the church's own website to see if there was anything relating to the heraldic carvings discussed above (there isn't) I see that they confirm my understanding that it is still stored in the...

cov Well the moat isn't in doubt! The car park of Gilbertstone Recreation ground now occupies the site. Incidentally the North-South footpath to the east of the moat is now the gulley bounding the eastern edge of the recreation ground. I believe road names nowadays are approved by the local...

I was thinking back to my short spell in MTRHQ, 95 Newhall Street. I very briefly worked with Management Services who had a small corner of a vast open-plan office on the ground floor. Most of it was just used as a store. I was told that 'the unions' had refused to work with open-plan so one...