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Correct, Lyn, I well remember the photo card index - so people now have no access to photographs? That's an absolute disgrace considering the vast amount of money that was borrowed and spent. Oxford Libraries had a digitised library of 30,000 photographs online before I moved to Crete in 2005...

Pete, You can't beat a good galvanised bucket and I know that the Indians make and sell thousands of them. I didn't realise that they were still made in the UK - good quality stuff I am sure. Watching our Greek builders, they tend to use emply buckets that once contained emulsion paint or other...

But HTML 5 brought in a lot more functionality which Internet Explorer would struggle to handle. The security aspect and protocols also come into it. Bob didn't confirm which browser he was using, but that was my best guess. Maurice :cool:

Bybrett, Welcome to the Forum, and that is a great picture. No doubt some of our members will have more say tomorrow. Maurice :cool:

But then again, Banjo, they can't visualise a mile or a hundredweight. :) Maurice :cool:

Fantastic stuff and an extertaining film clip too. Maurice :)

Pete, That guy seemed to make hard work of making a grid bias battery - looks all very posh and that, but ,,,,,, I remember as a kid I bought a silly little build-it-yourself electric motor by Mail Order from Wm Penn Ltd. Well you didn't even get what you paid for with that shyster outfit, so...

Lady P, Swears & Wells were gobbled up by United Drapery Stores in the 1970s, which was acquired by Burton Group, which was acquired by Arcadia Group, the Philip Green chaos. Still in the process of being torn apart and bits of it being bidden for by speculators - but anyway, long since gone...

Pete, You mean the old Grid Bias batteries - 6 x 1.5volts in series - very useful those were. Ain't seen 'em for years. Maurice :cool:

How many pharmacies will sell you chemicals these days? Few I bet. My pharmacy will get me 1 kg packs of Magnesium Sulphate - i use it as a fertiliser - and I think it is around £7 a pack. But I remember when I was young that you could buy many chemicals there or sometimes at the drysalters...

At least things were reuseable in those days as far as accumulators go - just recharge them and you're good for another few days. A few batteries are now rechargeable today, but most go for recycling. Is the lithium recoverable? I've no idea & am too busy to look it up. But every month we take a...

Bob, Alternative in this case means different. If you are still using Internet Explorer, support for that has stopped or is about to stop. Since you most probably cannot change it yourself, then you may have to call whoever is in charge of your network. Maurice :cool:

Cowdell Jones - can't be anything else in my view. Maurice :cool:

Bit late in the day to start worrying about that! Maurice :cool:

A calculator certainly isn't much used to you, Mort. Remember the old hat sizes of 6 7/8 - what do they use now, or does no one wear a hat where the size matters, just a big woolly sock over your head, though the latter is undoubtedly warmer. ........Now was that £7 19s 11 1/2d per sq ft? :)...

Christopher, Welcome to the Forum. This looks like the liquidation. I couldn't find much else about them though. Gerald Anthony Fenwick Coward seems to be either an accountant, a lawyer or venture capitalist, and his name has been associated with over 80,000 companies, so it is possible a...

I remember the 10 bob note was put forward as the new unitary pound, but rejected as pounds didn't change and most of the rest was in effect "tiddlers". I think that big business had a say in that. Over hear in Greece, supermarkets have always rounded to the nearest 5 cents (or lepta as they are...

Making someone feel or look like an idiot is never a good practice, and completely ignores the fact that people's rates of learning differ, and some things come naturally and others don't. I still struggle with calculus today, not that I have a need to comprehend it, yet I used to enjoy algebra...

Wam, The real test is are people still playing it 30 or 40 years later? Looking back 100 years, both Debussy & Ravel were modern and some decried their works, but they have consistently proved popular in concert halls, and have been used as models for much later music, even today. By contrast...

Bob, Is there anything to understand in that loud brash modern stuff? I don't think so, it is just noise to dance to. I regard John Cage 4.33 as just a huge joke and they have even set up one to play for goodness knows how many years now in Germany. Absolutely pointless. All day, all week more...