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...err... yes! 36 then 38 Front Street WEST! And tony got Millne right too - pity no one managed Dansette! For a brief period in the late '60s NVR had a really novel battery portable called the Discotron, which played disks vertically and looked more like a transistor radio with a handle than a record player. They didn't have much output though, and weren't a big seller. If the firm had carried on and improved it a bit I think they could have been big, but it fizzled out. Result is they are very rare now, and highly sought after.

Totally correct and full marks! Right on through and almost to the end on the left-hand side. In charge of the Records Dept. the amazingly pretty blond Betty Brown (maiden name). She knew her records, and late one weekday afternoon insisted I listen to a newly-arrived record from this noisy new group playing a number called "Love Me Do" - well I wasn't too impressed at the time, and they probably never went anywhere! No headphones; no booths; just a rather good Pye "Black Box" stereo system that lasted quite some years. NVR on Front Street East sold vinyl for a few years in the mid to late '60s, and slightly later an upstairs place nearer the Market Place - think it was imaginatively named The Music Box or similar! I think it's more likely you bought it above what used to be Feasters and Percy Moldens. Some time in the mid '50s Millne's established the first record department there - straight at the top of the stairs in a partitioned off area. Previously they'd been sold from 110 Front Street East - The Cycle Shop. In those days record distribution was closely controlled, and the distributors are very unlikely to have supplied shops within a stone's-throw of each other. What sticks in my mind about this is the extensive use of the new wonder material pegboard, the "comfy" seating, and the strips of red carpet over the regulation lino. Clearly no expense was spared! My other impression is of seeing the first vinyl 7" EPs there. EPs - 33rpm - didn't last too long. 6s 8d (approx 34p) in the mid '60s I think. 45's were stuck at about that price for quite some years - though they attracted (25%?) Purchase Tax and changes to that might have produced some small variations. They likely were 3s odd in the '50s. . The last of the 78's went in a huge bumper sale in the Market Place store. The problem was that over the years thousands of the things had built up, and in those days it was forbidden to sell at below the price stipulated by the record companies (Retail Price Maintenance). In fact you could be taken to court for discounting, or worse have all your supplies cut off! With the move to Millne House (though it wasn't called that until the Coop took it over) there was a huge storage headache with this dead stock. Some time after the move, and after much argument and trepidation it was decided to go ahead regardless and flog them off at 2s 6d (eight for £1). Queues developed as discounted records were unheard of, and just about everything moved in a day or two. The much feared reaction of the record distributors never happened! If you kept yours - and didn't turn them into flowerpots or sling them - you probably have an excellent investment.

Don't follow it closely, but now that you come to mention it... looks like we are in a classic retreat to something between $1000/oz and $800/oz. There are quite a few producers who are struggling to produce profitably at around those levels and higher so I wouldn't expect it to go much lower. But confidence in it as a store of value has - very rightly - been shaken at these speculative bubble levels. The very people who are now losing money are the people who are reluctant to invest in equities because of the perceived risk - they don't like the idea of any capital loss, so will be doubly put out. Guess they will simply have to leave their money in Euros, collecting a derisory rate of interest in a nice safe offshore Eurozone bank! Anyway, I certainly wouldn't bet my shirt on the gold price! http://www.bbc.co.uk...-asia-22101436

Where the dentist now is, but I don't think it is the same building (Burdon House I've just been told), and the building-line seems to have changed a bit. If you look to the left of it there is no sign of the Clovelly Garden's entrance. Wasn't that developed by Adcocks the builders much later - so likely that whole bit was "remodelled" then. Don't the phone poles look amazing? No conservation area status there then?! The video is a great effort, but the indoor resonance sounds (particularly on the landings) spoil it a tiny bit. Next effort needs some dull outdoor sound dubbed into the audio to do the fine acting full justice. Maybe a bit of horses' hooves background noise too - otherwise very imaginative.

Yet another Android smartphone launch - yawn? Nope, this one is special! This new ZTE packs an Intel CloverTrail+ CPU running at a full 2GH/z. That's more computing power than many desktops had not too many years ago, and better than many netbooks currently in use. It's "binary compatible" with regular PCs too - that means that there's no need for developers to run emulations, they can run the same instructions directly, and use regular PC software tools. Graphics are reportedly three times faster than current generation ARM based phones like the Samsung Galaxys and iPhones. No UK availability date or price yet, but I will try to keep you updated. http://gigaom.com/20...eek-smartphone/

"spiteful rantings"? hhmm.... My real problem with the ultra-left propaganda about Mrs T is that it influences kids who weren't around at the time. Had they been they'd likely have seen for themselves what an almighty mess we were in due to the likes of Scargill. No one else had the guts to stand up to the almighty unions who were holding us all to ransom - neither the Labour Party or the Tory wets like Heath. It had to be done, and if it was so bad why was not a scrap of it ever undone by Labour? But none of this was personal - it's only the loony-left who want to personalise it. If you can't win a logical argument then try to label and demonise - always a good substitute for actual thought! Well said you lefty BBC journo!

Really shabby Sym! Whether you agree or disagree with what she did you demean yourself as a human being by taking that attitude to the death of a frail old lady. You also show an intolerance to the rights of countless millions of people who believe that what she did was very necessary to the survival and long-term well-being of our country. In their honest moments that includes just as many people left-of-center as right.

He's in trouble already! Skeletons in cupboard regarding the five hundred plus stolen babies around about the time of the Falklands War. Has selective amnesia about what happened when relatives asked him for help at the time. His signature has been found on a letter proving he had knowledge of the matter, though he stood up in court later on and said he didn't know what was going on. Not intervening in the circumstances is excusable - several priests who did were bumped off by the millitary. But, it rather looks like he may have been caught out in a porkie! Certainly some Argentinian woman is claiming he's not fit for the job. http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2013/03/16/pope_francis_faces_fallout_from_argentinas_dirty_war_editorial.html

Now that's a load of rubbish, because the profile it is showing for me doesn't look remotely like their sample illustration. Their algorithm is clearly struggling here! Actually it is wonderful, because it illustrates that TWC aren't prepared to take on a shed-load of debt commitments, and in these economically strained funny-money times, that is most certainly something which should be looked UP to! And, whether they choose to acknowledge it or not, Maggie T had a big hand in changing attitudes here!

Uh??? Absolutely anyone can post in Northumberland Chat (and sometimes absolutely anyone does!), so... before it actually appears a moderator has to give it a quick look over. This rule applies even to registered members who are logged in. There may be a work-around to registered members not seeing their posts appear instantly here, but it's not something that comes up too often. The "green bar" bit of your question has me stumped though!

I though this may have been. One thing is for sure: if/when Labour get back into power the measures won't be unpicked. Yes, they will make all the right noises, but they know as well as anyone else that the welfare budget was allowed to get way out of control and is simply unaffordable!

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Nissen_hut ...or maybe they were the Japanese variant? Talking about variants I didn't know about these. Copied from the Nissen Hut design! Anyone recognise a pattern here?

Message from ECB/IMF: Leave any serious cash in Southern European Banks at your peril, and that could even include socialist France. Result: A flight of capital into Northern Europe, or likely outside the Eurozone entirely. The lack of moral hazard all started with our very own Northern Rock and pathetically incompetent Labour chancellor Alastair Darling - as noted here at the time. Now, when introducing moral hazard is forced on the politicos, they characteristically go over the top - because it's far far too late! The US had the good sense to let Lehman Brothers go - it served a dual purpose in evening a few scores amongst the banking fraternity, and so was an easy choice. It's a totally pointless exercise recapitalising the Cypriot casinos, and they should have used a tiny fraction of the money setting up a string of local "savings and loans" to take over the day to day business of the populace - one per town.

You might be interested in the Who Do You Think You Are programme on actress Helen Hunt. It was still available on iPlayer the last time I looked. She finds out that one of her ancestors was a leading figure in the US Suffragettes around about the time of EWD. http://www.bbc.co.uk...es_3_Episode_2/

Except there's no Good Friday hol down around the Med! Hard to believe when every conceivable excuse for a public holiday is honoured - but not that one! The UK£ is recovering some of its composure against the € though, which is a not unwelcome development in those parts! Saw something last night which said the grab could be as high as 60% of some deposits. Incredible, and a lot of powerful people with contacts are going to be very very upset! Maybe the bank manager who was doling his own money out to those in need has a better appreciation of hard realities than some politicos?

Do the crime then patch the law as needed - a perk of the power game, isn't that right Silvio? All the get-out-of-jail cards are there: general public interest; public security; etc. Says who? Certainly not the general public in who's name all the jiggery pokery is performed in! I think with the EU we've already passed over the edge there, but - like an off-the-cliff cartoon character - it's taking a while to notice the void below.

Need them to write a 4D add-in! It needs elements of that, elements of image digitisation, and elements of photo stitching software.

I've been thinking about this for sometime, and as more previously unseen material crops up the prospect comes ever closer. Simply stitching together a series of photos is no good, essentially the model needs to incorporate time as one of the axes. Putting an approximate date on each of the images then becomes crucial, though once enough data has been garnered the software would have a role in best sliding the image into the space-time frame. It's really just an extension of the modelling software that's used for the 3D recreations we currently see on history programmes these days, but with the added plus of actual surface rendering data, and being able to move through time too! There'd be an underlying wire-frame creation, and obviously fuzzy bits in the presentation where essential data was still missing - but that's all part of the fun of re-creation. It's way beyond my current knowledge of state of the art. Though one of our current neighbours - who we bump in to from time to time - is a worshipped expert in CGI, works a lot for "The Mouse", and would be the best person to ask. It's fascinating to talk to him about the latest CGI stuff coming up, and you could probably dine out in Geekland on the experience! Don't hold your breath on this as sometimes I don't see him from one year to the next as he's a real live jet-setter, but I will, at some point, report back on what he says on the matter.

NOTE TO SYMPTOMS: That requires (re)reading and studying all the posts then working out the best way to knit them. It's time consuming enough just to make sure all the posts are scanned by someone. If the search isn't producing the required results (though it has been improved recently) then we'd certainly have to re-visit that. Why not consider taking on a forum yourself? The principal is to mess with stuff as little as possible, whilst maintain some sort of coherence. It's always puzzling when someone says where has this or that gone. Fact is that virtually nothing is removed from this board, except the odd bit of pure spam. At times moved, but seldom if ever removed, and it's often a joint decision.

Think I must have blinked when we suddenly acquired a US style Supreme Court. Designed for/by Tony's cronies at law? The democratic deficit isn't just with the EU. Always amazing what the establishment can sneak under the noses of an uncaring public - whatever the system!

An interesting viewpoint here: British Establishment blocks Minute's Silence for Emily Davison

...and Sarky too! Why would they go into politics if they couldn't exercise a little influence on behalf of those that might "show their gratitude"? At least it's not the usual sex scandal. It's a 25% bank deposit grab now! More or less ensures that Cypriot banks are out of international monetary musical chairs for good!

Stranger yet: http://books.google....aedling&f=false http://www.jstor.org...=21101811171163 Rather looks like someone has been reading one of our threads, but hasn't done all their homework! A Michael Jackson look-alike for the grand opening?