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    Richard Dye replied to the thread Computer help please 2025.
    If it’s only a year old, I doubt the hard drive because most likely it’s solid state. I think a usb sound card is worth a try.
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    Richard Dye reacted to paul stacey's post in the thread Smallbrook Ringway with Appreciate Appreciate.
    No tips, in my working class neighbourhood Richard, you might get about 2/6 at Christmas time, for a whole round , about 60 houses...
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    Richard Dye reacted to Down Memory Lane's post in the thread The Longboat, Cambrian Wharf with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Those properties became residential at some point. When I was the DJ at the flapper I originally drove down the service road and loaded...
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    Smudger replied to the thread Computer help please 2025.
    Thanks Mort, The pc ( aio ) is not very old, less than a year so i doubt if it`s a cooling fan problem? I`m going to try a usb sound...
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    Hayward family replied to the thread Hills, Lones and Hayward.
    thanks i have read it all and it ties in with what she told me about having to take an exam etc to get into the school, see some Manders...
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    Donbogen replied to the thread Birmingham Municipal Bank.
    Opened my first account at the Yardley Branch i say first account i already had Post Office one and i was with the Bradford & Bingley...
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    Donbogen reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Birmingham Municipal Bank with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I remember those banks of cards in the wooden boxes behind the counter. They were the ledgers in which your deposit was recorded by...
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    Donbogen reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Birmingham Municipal Bank with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here's an early photo of that branch, on the corner of Stratford Road and Shakespeare Street .... dated 1928. It was my childhood bank too.
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    Donbogen reacted to BrianE's post in the thread Birmingham Municipal Bank with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I was taken by my father to the municipal bank on the top of Spark Hill. I was handed down over the counter a very large and heavy...
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    embeeUSA replied to the thread 4 Summerville Terrace Harborne.
    Ah. Ellen Hill was Louise Green's mother. So - The Greens and Hills in 1911 living there are related families, and the Green's are still...
  • Morturn
    Morturn replied to the thread Computer help please 2025.
    Its not by any change the cooling fan full of dust and fluff is it? If not it maybe a hard Drive on the way out. Take a look at the fan...
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    Morturn reacted to Smudger's post in the thread Computer help please 2025 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I have sound problems on my pc. It sounds like wind interference & I've exhausted my very limited skills trying to solve the problem...
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    Hayward family replied to the thread Hills, Lones and Hayward.
    Probably Elias Lones i know nothing about him or any of the Lones apart from that fact that my grandmother said she was related to the...
  • paul stacey
    paul stacey replied to the thread Smallbrook Ringway.
    No tips, in my working class neighbourhood Richard, you might get about 2/6 at Christmas time, for a whole round , about 60 houses...
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    robert reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Albany Hotel with Appreciate Appreciate.
    we are locking this thread for moderation as we seem to have quite a few negative posts and although they may well be true a few...
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