alisoncc

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  1. Left Nottingham in 1960, so what's this Broad Marsh Centre thing anyway? Was it before my time?
  2. Been lurking for a while. As to my Meadows knowledge - it's a bit dated, haven't been back there to any great extent since 1960. 1960 took the Queen's shilling, and now I've spent it I can't go back. Coming back from the shop, house next to the shop was occupied by the Luptons?, then us the Cooks, then the Tootins. As for the laneway that has been spoken about, it's just visible bottom left of the picture.
  3. Hi there, you talking about this shop. The one directly above the white mini roof. Remember Mrs Parry quite well, and when she got quite angry 'cos we had built a Guy Fawkes bonfire in front of her shop. And when we lit it the heat cracked all her shop windows. Alison One time resident of Summers Steet
  4. Just PM'd Mick to let him know that I have been away for few days, just dropped in at home to pick up some clothes, and I am going to be away possibly until Tuesday evening - family issues. Hope then to be able to look at the internals of Nottstalgia. Play nicely whilst I am away Hugs Alison
  5. Never really took any notice of the houses down Annesley St so cannot comment.
  6. Mick, please don't sign any agreement involving extra costs until at least I've had a chance to look at the configuration. I do not believe that the site is generating enough traffic to warrant any additional resources. They just need to be better organised. Alison
  7. They looked pretty posh from the Queens Drive side. Yet they seemed to also have outside loos, alternating with the Summers St outside loos down the middle per the map. This is the aspect that intrigues me. Assuming they were built in the mid 1800's, were outside loos the norm for most city houses then?
  8. Latest crop of errors as reported by the hosting CPanel. Note significant memory allocation and processes problems The IP address 59.167.127.193 is my address when it just crashed on me.
  9. I am IT orientated and have offered help Trevor, but sadly offer not taken up. I need access as admin to review IPBoard parameters, but there seems to be an issue there which I don't understand. Mick did give me access to the host CPanel, and if I had been so inclined I could have given myself Admin priviledges directly through the database tools, but as an ethical IT person it wasn't a direction I wished to take.
  10. Re: subscriptions. Agree with Aupmeducks. Pay to be a member does tend to kill off websites deemed to be non-essential by potential subscribers. Another option is donations. There are a few sites that faciltate donations requiring just an additional link on the site itself. Scanning back through the error log associated with my connections to Nottstalgia, the migration wasn't particularly successful from day one. Backups and restores to new hosts invariably introduce corrupt files. Sh*t happens. In cases like this I have registered an ancillary domain name - say nottstalgia.NET, reinstalled
  11. Wow, Carni. Didn't know you can get 'lectric ones. This one goes back to the middle of the last century. Handle's been stuck up with superglue a few times.
  12. Woke up early this morning - 5.00am, after a night of very unseasonal squalls - strong winds with rain. The rain didn't just pitter patter, it was more like a bucket being emptied over the roof, a very big bucket, and the wind was howling. This is supposed to be Summer here - Melbourne, Oz. Still have all my Winter blankets on the bed too, and last night watching DVD's had on a thick jumper and long skirt. I am aware that there is no such thing as "normal" weather here, but this is getting to be a bit stoopid. Shall complain when next talking with God. PS. It will be interesting to hear what
  13. Dr Evadne is pretty good on the piano as well. Setting "her" self up to play a serious piece by Bach she turned to the audience and said "This time I won't be playing it on the dummy keyboard". The audience fell apart. Their wit and humour are not crude or rude like so much today. Naughty, suggestive perhaps, but not crude.
  14. Today I was loaned a couple of DVD's of "Gala Evenings" concerts starring Dame Hilda Bracket and Dr Evadne Hinge. And they are just so funny and incredibly entertaining. I had never heard of them before. But they are truly brilliant. The date when they appear to have been broadcast seems to have been in 1978 by the BBC. Anyone remember them or know anything about them? Lots of Gilbert & Sullivan, Ivor Novello songs etc. plus some popular classics. The concerts seem to have taken place in Harrogate or thereabouts. Apparently they were quite well known in pantomine circles.
  15. A lot of the errors seem to be associated with ckeditor.
  16. Suhosin is deprecated in Drupal 7.x installations as it is known to cause many PHP errors by limiting the number of variables. My understanding is that it is being "phased out" due to it's unreliability with the latest PHP versions. If Zyma did not have it installed, then many of the problems that Nottstalgia is now experiencing may be due to Suhosin. Suhosin has not been updated since 2010, and is likely to be discontinued as new PHP version releases are distributed.
  17. Keep getting a textual dump with no graphics. Tried half a dozen times at 10-15 minute intervals, always the same. What is odd is that these all occurred between 3.00am and 4.30am UK time. Which should be the quietest time given that most members are UK based.
  18. Probably never happen. The real problem is the speed with which technology is changing. As soon as a new "standard" gets released, someone somewhere comes up with a better way of doing it. A "Sony", "Panasonic or "Samsung" will then try to get the edge on their competitors by designing and releasing products that are "better" than the "standard". And so it goes on, with each technology company seeking to leapfrog their competition with new designs.
  19. Definitely something up. The last two days here in Victoria, Oz weren't that much different to the middle of Winter, and it's supposed to be Summer. We had one day with a top of 36 degC, then two with tops of just 13 degC. A bit warmer today made it to 21 degC. Can we have locations back on the left sidebar Mike?
  20. The DVD recorder, often referred to as a PVR or similar to one, digitises the analog signal from the VHS player. Which is the important step.
  21. Don't think you can save videos to "here" - Nottstalgia. VHS were analog devices, and most forms of video storage nowadays are digital. So you need some means of converting the analog to digital. You probably need to find someone with a VHS player and a PVR - Personal Video Recorder or similar. I did something similar about seven years ago when I digitised some old VHS tapes via a PVR, and then burnt them to DVD's.