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Perhaps the small lake or pond was the moat near where Church Road crosses the brook now leading into Sheldon Country Park. This website says it was filled in in the 1950s. The illustration from Grace's Guide might jog the memory of the pram factory.

I suspect the photoresistor will have become a photodiode, the relay some sort of solid-state switch and the lamp an array of LEDs! To think that back in 1967/8 I was taken into a back room by my lecturer and allowed to lift the lid of a shoebox and to then peep inside, where an axial-leaded...

We don't actually gain or lose an 'hour of sun' when 'the clocks change' so street lighting clock only needs to cope with solar changes throughout the year, 'clock time' doesn't matter to the street lamp. However the behaviour of people does change with BST/GMT so the need for light might...

An article about LBW 245E appears here.

D.R. Higgins & Son, perhaps, butchers? Now here? (Post updated)

Removing 'unnecessary' files from hard drives has always been a stock suggestion from computer magazine writers to 'improve performance'. As long as there is enough spare space on the drive that shouldn't be a problem but it is easy copy to keep writing and it 'sounds right', a bit like...

I think that rather depends on what one calls an 'app'. As Windows 10 For Dummies says "In an effort to sound young and hip, Windows now refers to traditional desktop programs as apps." There are lots of small programs could easily be run from within a browser, either client side or server side...

Are those apps actually installed? Aren't most of those just links to download the apps? Windows 10 must be very confusing for a new user as there is all that flashing stuff on the desktop 'out of the box', none of which I have on my machine now. Given that a PC operating system used to fit on...

Trevor, I deliberately extracted out of your post the line that 'there is nothing wrong with the comprehensive system' as that was the point that I disputed. I didn't set out to ascribe any other opinions to you and it is unwise of you to ascribe other opinions to me. It is well known that the...

That's quite some statement! I'm inclined to think there is something very much wrong with a system whose proponents would see the elimination of all alternatives. Perhaps comprehensives are responsible for the increasingly common viewpoint that some ideas are 'totally unacceptable'? Allowing...

Perhaps Springfield grove? The brick chimney would be to the right of the radio mast, hidden by trees.

My guess would be that she was a factory guard/police officer. That might be a role that could extend well beyond the factory. The public houses for miles around Carlisle, for instance, were under state control, going back to the WW1 munitions factories wanting to keep their workers 'dry'.

The munitions factories were known as HMF, i.e. HMF Gretna.

The animals that served on the Western Front might have been treated well but those that went to East Africa often had a very short life, being exposed to a hostile climate, vegetation, insects and native carnivores. The same was true to some extent for the men. The chances of being killed were...

Coventry was always 0CO3 to me, surely it was one of the first STD codes? (Bristol 0BR2 the first?).

What is the difference between Tapioca and Sago?

StreetView will take you back to April 2015 (earlier views have tree cover) and 'Music' is quite clear. The middle line looks like 'Jewellery'.

Some evidence for the 175.

The newspaper article leaves out an important word - 'exchange', the 1949 link started at 'Museum', a telephone exchange. The London tower closed in 1967 when it was replaced by the nearby 'Post Office Tower'. The same thing happened in Birmingham of course. "Technical Details The pioneering...

Telephone House was still a TV centre in the 1970s, I could see the TV monitors from 95 Newhall Street. I recall being shown some 'co-ax', it looked like and was the size of gas flue liner with 'spiders' holding the core wire in the centre, (i.e. there was no solid dielectric). I expect by then...