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Advice please. My wife has an i-pad which works on system 16. She has used it to buy on e-bay for ages, but e-bay now insist that she does an update which it seems needs her i-pad to have system 17. Surely there must be a fix? ps please keep any advice simple!

My grand mother was Agnes Williams nee Bishop b 1894 d 1954 Her parents: Edmund Bishop 1860-1949 & Annie Bray 1865-1948 Annie's Brother Thomas Bray 1877-1962 In later years, 1940's Edmund, Annie & Tom lived at 47,Third Avenue, Bordesley Green. Now this looks all right except it doesn't quite fit...

Those of us addicted to the TV show FlogIt will be sad to hear of the death of Brummie expert Michael Baggott which was announced today. Michael died in Good Hope following a stroke.

Just read on local facebook page that local comedian Malcolm Stent has recently died. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/tributes-paid-solihull-panto-king-28830374https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/tributes-paid-solihull-panto-king-28830374

Sad to learn that this popular singer of the 1970's recently passed away RIP>

1901 census my great grand parents, John and Fanny Williams, lived 35,Cartland Rd, Aston, but in parliamentary division of Bordesley? Is this a different Cartland Rd? By 1911 they had moved to Sparkbrook.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salts_Healthcare_Ltd Read that this company has been based in Birmingham since the 1700's. There can't be many that can claim such a record! Members of the current board are members of the founding family. Well worth a read. Maybe there are forum members who have...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000hghz Radio 4 programme at an early hour this morning!

Couldn't find a copy of this newsreel on BHF https://www.macearchive.org/films/midlands-news-08031957-inauguration-inner-ring-road

Spent an enjoyable couple of hours this morning at our local library hearing about "Magical Maps". Some of the sites are West Country based, but then quite a few of us live down here and others come down here on holiday so could be of interest. https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/...

Just read that the head of McDonalds has been dismissed for an office romance. What are the rules these days? I know that in 1950's-60's office romances were rife, but I suppose they were mainly between folk of similar status. In 1960's relationships were discouraged between supervisor and...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6714571/Homeowner-asks-100-year-old-postbox-moved-widened-driveway.html A cutting from today's Daily Mail. Your thoughts?

I have just read that Sir Frank Price died earlier this year. www.birminghamupdates.com/sir-frank-price-who-was-a-key-figure-in-the-modernist-redevelopment-of-birmingham-in-the-1950s-and-60s-has-sadly-died-aged-95/ This obituary well worth a read. Looked hard but couldn't find any mention of him...

Just found this story on a Facebook site "Birmingham and the Midlands. Historic Times and Places. 19 young female workers killed March 11th 1922 while dismantling WW1 cartridges. Company owner found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 5 years. Thanks to Joy Arnold for the research which...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-40755704 Saw on news today that the York Rd track is to close after 90 years. Always meant to go along but never made it. Was that the last track in the city>

Found this news item on BBC this morning, couldn't find an appropriate thread on the forum to post it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-39991006 I would think there are photos out there that remember the early years of the Polish Community in Birmingham. I remember attending...

Before yesterday I had never heard of this museum. But I learnt not only that it has been nominated as an Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017 but that it was founded in 1880, so well worth a mention! https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/lapworth-museum/index.aspx...