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For what it's worth, when they started "bringing back vinyl" they also started making separate record players and most of them seem to play 78s if you have them. Nowadays the price on these players has gone up and they also play cassettes and CDs. You used to be able to get them for £30 and now...

Different companies provide differing amounts of online storage with their accounts. This page is mostly an advert for one provider but it does list at least some of the alternatives alongside how much storage you get https://www.cbackup.com/articles/100gb-free-cloud-storage.html I've never...

New cracks in old tram cars according to the report.

The apps that run in browsers are cloud based so, if you have a file that you want to work on, you would need to have the app accessible. The larger that app is the more likely it is to fail or hang if your connection isn't stable. Some apps are so large that they could not work on the cloud as...

If you're losing apps from windows it might be that they're not really disappearing and you're just losing desktop icons. In that case, this might help. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/desktop-icons-not-showing-in-windows

If you need old maps for free online This is a good place to start. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=16&lat=52.45680&lon=-1.89650&layers=102&b=1&z=0&point=0,0 The interface isn't quite perfect and you can have trouble finding out the exact date of the map you're looking at but it does work.

For what it's worth, James Dicks was a confectioner at 22 High St Erdington in 1912 to 1930 In 1935 it's still a confectioner but it's Albert Edward Aston as proprietor. The directory before 1912 is 1898 and it doesn't have a listing for High St Erdington.

The shop had been a confectioners from WW2 to the 60s and before that it was a pub. The sign on the wall was probably advertising for somewhere else that might have been close or not. The descriptions of the place are a little diverse to look up on their own and we don't have the top line which...

Still no luck finding the Bull ring pictures but this was taken in 1985 and I think it's up by the library.

It did happen, at the moment I'm trying to find the pictures. I can't be sure of the date and I'm not sure finding the pictures will help.

OK so this is slightly off subject but, given the title of the last track, I just couldn't resist.

Curious, I have an Epson Perfection V500 her that runs on W10 using the original Epson Scan utility. According to Epson the drivers for the V100 should work if you have the latest version https://www.epson.co.uk/support?productID=1861#product_search should take you there although you might have...

True, although there is some political pressure to put in a Balsall Heath station. Resurrecting Camp Hill would be a lot cheaper and would be more accessible. The question was, without the station, why keep the name?

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/search-begins-for-contractors-to-build-three-new-birmingham-railway-stations-10-12-2021/ Above is the link to the article shown. It does have more detail than the image - they reckon to start sometime next year. Odd that they should keep the name "Camp...

I heard on the Breakfast news show that Ed Sheeran thinks he's just written the first song actually called just "Merry Christmas" - it's not true.

If I remember correctly, Revolver records at one time had a bag with a gun on it and half a dozen bullet holes each of which had the address of one of their shops but, strangely, none of the addresses were in Birmingham. I think they had a small shop in the Pallasades on the centre block...

I've also heard that in some places the sleeve was punched and hung up by a piece of string on market stalls. These were holed by some sharp pointed instrument which always seemed to make that more likely.

The record stall I remember was in the bull ring rather than the market. They had an exhibition there for a week or two called "The daily necessities fair of the People's Republic of China" and the stall was selling 5 LP's for £1. Some had little holes in the top right corner like they'd been...

Daisy Wheel was something I only ever heard of used in typewriters and, maybe, some early word processors. Once we got to PCs it was dot matrix printers. All of them used to use ribbons rather than ink tanks and you'd have to change ribbons fairly often depending on how much you used the...

I tend to use this site https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=52.45680&lon=-1.89650&layers=175&b=3 Excuse the extended reference but I found it easier to start at a certain point every time. It's easy enough to move around although it's a little harder to find the map you need - the box...