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  1. just testing

    in Message Test Forum

    Posted

    Lizzie. Sounds like you were doing fine and then chickened out . You are supposed to get a lot of letters and numbers in the Reply Box - that is the image's URL address. Do it again and then click the button that transmits the contents of the Reply Box. The URL address is then converted to the actual image. As I have said, if after you have posted the Reply Box and do not get an image, but get the URL letters and numbers, then click the go-back arrow at top left of screen, and then untick the HTML square and then re-post. Don't know why this does this, but keep in mind if this problem arises.

    Also, if, after you have transmitted the image and things are not going right, then so long as you can still see 'edit' at the bottom of the screen, you can still click on it and fiddle around with what you have and what you want to add.

    Come on, Lizzie. If carni can do it in between meals, then you can!

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  4. Posting images

    in FAQ about use of the forums.

    Posted

    I think one of the main problems with getting Photobucket images into a message is that from the library there are ten clicks to getting success. It is so easy to get them wrong if they are not spelled out simply. Apart from your explanation, Michael, no-one has come up with a good set of instructions, despite knowing how to do it. Your instructions differ slightly from mine, and I wonder if there is a conflict caused by different computer operating systems. I use Window 7 Home Premium. Other operating systems might not follow my instructions correctly. Would be interesting to see if any member uses a different operating system to mine, and follows my instructions, and gets success.

  7. Posting images

    in FAQ about use of the forums.

    Posted

    carni and Sue B 48, and any other frustrated Photobucketeers. Re the Photobucket instructions above in my #30, lines D.7 to D.12 have been amended to make it a little easier to post an image. I have tried it and it works fine. No excuses now, let's see some trial posts - you will have tears of joy running down your cheeks when it all goes to plan.

  11. Posting images

    in FAQ about use of the forums.

    Posted

    Further to my #1 above giving instructions on how to post images via Photobucket, feedback seems to indicate that it has helped some members but they are still some difficulties with others. I have amended the instructions, below, in light of further experience.

    A1. Google or Explorer 'Photobucket'

    A2. Click on 'Sign up' and do just that and then go back and

    A3. Click on 'Log in'

    A4. Click on 'Upload'

    A5. Click on 'Choose photos and videos'

    A6. Click on 'Documents' or where you store your images

    A7. Double click on the photo you want to load into Photobucket library. Photo will appear in Photobucket page (but

    might take a little while)

    You now have it permanently in the Photobucket library, but it will likely be too small when you eventually post it into a message; so there are two ways of altering its size.

    B1. When you see A5 box (above), click on icon in top right corner, choose size and click 'Save'.

    C1. Alternatively, if you want to choose a size other than in A5 box, then put cursor below the blue boxes that say

    'Prev' and 'Next' and five icons will appear - click on the centre one that says 'Edit'

    C2. Click on 'Resize'

    C3. Change number to what you want it to be - just change left number, right one will automatically change to keep

    ratio

    C4. Click 'Apply' and then click 'Save'

    You are now ready to insert images into your message.

    D1. Call up Photobucket on internet

    D2. Click on 'Log in'

    D3. Click on 'Library' (will show all of your images)

    D4. Click on the one you want to insert

    D5. On right-hand side of screen click on 'IMG' line at bottom of list; it has a URL address with numbers and letters.

    It will briefly turn yellow and flash the word 'saved'

    D6. If you are only posting the single image then come out of Photobucket (click the X in top right corner of screen)

    D7. Bring Nottstalgia on screen and scroll down to Reply Box.

    D8. Click on 'More Reply Options'

    D9. Click on 'Enable HTML'.

    D10. Right click in reply box and then click on 'Paste' in drop-down menu, and the image's URL address will appear, not the image.

    D11. Add caption above or below URL address

    D12. Click 'Add Reply' and Bingo! the image will appear in your posted message.

    If it doesn't and you only have the URL address, then click the go-back arrow at top left of screen and then unclick the Enable HTML box.

    If you want to post more than one image in a message then have Nottstalgia and Photobucket on screen together, but in reduced screen sizes. You can then easily keep calling up images from the library, clicking on their IMG/URL address and than posting them as per above instructions into the Reply Box.

  12. 1960s street map

    in OLD MAPS OF NOTTINGHAM

    Posted

    Sometime in the 1960s the Evening Post reported that Bell's the stationers (top of Hockley; remember them) had found some old maps in a storeroom, and was selling them off at one shilling each. I bought one, still have it and is attached to this message. The maps were not folded.

    There is no date on the map but seeing that the Victoria station is marked with its original name of Great Central and Great Northern Joint Station, it must be no later than May 1900 when the station was named Victoria.

    The map is mainly within the city boundary, but it does also include West Bridgford.



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  14. Lost Pubs photos on Post website

    in General Chat about Nottingham

    Posted

    A year or more ago the Basford Bystander magazine published a photograph purporting to be the railway bridge across the bottom of Broxtowe Lane, Cinder Hill. I doubted this because through the bridge you can see, faintly, two tall vertical structures. I believe that these are either two of the chimneys or the headstocks seen in the aerial photo of Babbington/Cinder Hill Pit in the Lost Pubs thread #42.

    I remember this bridge very well, next to the Collier's Arms pub, and recall that there was a pavement only on the pub side of the road. The road was much narrower than the Broxtowe Lane bridge, which had a wider road and a pavement either side of the road. In the attached picture the road does look wide, but I still think that it is the bridge near the Collier's Arms. If you look through the bridge on Broxtowe Lane you would have seen Cinder Hill Park, looking one way, and the rising ground going up towards Bells Lane junction looking the other way. Does anyone agree with me? Also, any idea when the picture was taken?

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  16. Art

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

    Posted

    To end this thread about my father's work, here are the two silver trophies that he won in the National Painter and Decorators' Joint Education Committee signwriting competitions in 1932 and 1933. The other picture show his Diplomas of Merit, National and Nottingham Branch awards, and School of Art certificates.

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  17. Dreams or nightmares

    in 50's Nottingham

    Posted

    #17. One should not ridicule dreams, they often tell a lot about a person. I have been reading The Labyrinth of the Tortured Mind, by the well-known Austro-Bulwellian professor Dr Sigmund Chullaski, NG, NCT, BSA. About the location of a bus station he says that it indicates itchy feet, whereby the patient does not like staying in the same place for more than 24 hours.

    As for being dressed in only a vest, he says that if modesty is preserved by pulling down the front of the garment with the right hand, or the back of it with the left hand, then this is quite normal. However, if both hand are used simultaneously to pull down the front and back, then this is serious; it is an indication of Acute Ambidextrousness, sometimes fatal. In the worse cases the patient maniacally grabs cakes and buns with both hands, morbidly fearing that others are getting more than their fair share. Those that overdo it rarely survive and are usually found slumped in a chair covered in crumbs and cup-cake containers, but with a satisfied smile on their face. Cremation is usually at gas mark 8 for 45 minutes.

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  22. Bulwell

    in 'Mucky Ukna' Bull'el Baasford & Hyson Green

    Posted

    Bilbraborn. There is no mention of them in the Directory. The firms are only mentioned in the residence lists where someone lives at an address. In the advertisements they are not mentioned - probably only would be if they paid to be, and in the Trades section there is no mention of an upholstery company. Again, this is probably because they did not contribute to the cost of the Directory.

    Eastwood Street had 14 houses, numbered 1 to 27. It was off Leonard Street - I have checked for MBC but not there.

  24. Bulwell

    in 'Mucky Ukna' Bull'el Baasford & Hyson Green

    Posted

    I have a Bulwell Directory, giving listings of firms, businesses and residents of houses. There is no date of printing but because a Triumph Herald car features in an advert it must be in the 1960s. This is before the area clearances and the building of the new estates. If anyone would like to know who lived where at that time then PM me, or if it is about businesses and of wider interest then put it in this thread.