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Mr Cherry caused some upset because he used to say "Have a penguin!", (the biscuit), when someone did something good when it was realised that it was only the girls that he praised in this way. He never actually handed out any biscuits though. I would have thought that the trampoline would have...

The ability to run legacy programs can depend on how the program and the operating program came to be on the computer. I had a PC once that was running Windows 95 with various games. In due course the PC was upgraded to Windows 98 and everything still worked. Then I tried to re-install one of...

I should jolly well hope so! That is the whole point of HTML, CSS and the browser rendering it, 'platform independent' as they say. The 'problem' with so-called operating system updates/upgrades is their lack of support for legacy programs and hardware. It's like getting a new car and finding...

Perhaps some have moved to a different local authority area, perhaps some have returned to an EU country with their parents? We have to hope that there aren't any more children like Arthur Labinjo-Hughes out there. Society as a whole has been taught to be more fearful of strangers and, in more...

My understanding from the group history notes that I have is that the original hut was ex-Army anti-aircraft situated at the Yew Tree. It would be nice to be able to record more precise details. Potted histories of 298th Silvermere Group here.

Re-reading this and being reminded by the video I think I have conflated the upper and lower vestibules of the new block, i.e. the door to the playground was obviously only on the ground floor while the lockers would have been on the first floor where there would have been less traffic and on...

Without doubt the teachers were all excellent and there was a good school spirit that showed itself at times like the 'Moseley Sevens' and Speech Day at the Town Hall, (here else would Saltley hold it!).

One big change at Saltley was the demoltion of the new gym, the building of which caused much suffering to boys at the time. Temporary changing rooms were set up at various places as the building proceeded but they all meant that boys, dressed only in white shorts, had to run along corridors...

6 Maths and the like had the new block physics lab as their form room and Mr. Douce as their formaster. As the labs didn't have desks there were lockers, some situated in the new block crush hall. Totally unrelated: I remember seeing a green EMU approach from the direction of New Street once...

Could this be at the end of the 'new' block'? It joined the old school just outside the girls' crush hall. Coming from the main school there was probably a step down to a vestibule containg lockers fot the upper school pupils. There was a door out to the play ground to the left and the stairs...

..Moneo, Mones, Monent... Mr Chippendale, a memory of a strong smell from whatever he put on his hair. I always felt sorry for him as I supposed he had gone from teaching respectful, young Indian boys to rude British Fifth Formers, most of whom were only there to get a quick O-level language...

Be a tell-tale, or why it's time to write your own history, a writer wishing he knew more about his parents and beyond. Hosted on 'The Conservative Women' but the article is apolitical and makes some good points.

See American Airborne Landings. The Rebecca/Eureka radio system was also used by photo reconnaissance aircraft of the Second Tactical Air Force, allowing it to navigate at night and photograph German troop movements. There are a lot of things relating to D-Day that haven't received much...

HS2's November 2021 video on restoring Curzon Street station

When living in a students hall of residence I had a go at making a small VHF transmitter partly with the object of messing about with a fellow student across the quad who had built his own VHF receiver. I stopped the experiment when police messages started to come out of the AM radio that we had...

Jacko, Rupert and Paddington!

The register records his award of the 1914-15 Star. The Silver War Badge List 1914-18 is described here.

I have friends that use 'Alexa' all the time for turning on room lights and setting cooking timers. I can't think it can be good for the children to hear things like "Alexa! Set a four minute timer", as there is no 'please' or 'thank you' involved. I felt that I needed an 'Alexa' too but mine...

Probably a bit of a misnomer as Smart Speakers are primarily Smart Listeners! Devices such as Amazon's 'Alexa' listen to spoken commands from their users which are sent over the internet to the server belonging to the supplier, e.g. Amazon. In response the Smart Speaker delivers a spoken reply...

AC2/1 are, of course, Aircraftman class 2/1 not air crewman. AC2, AC1 to LAC would be a common 'career' path. Ground crew (AC2/1 LAC etc. might not be allocated to squadrons as such but to Servicing Echelons which might have the squadron number that they worked with but an extra digit and...