I am looking at different elements of the development of industrial wind turbines in the production of electricity in the UK over the last 10 years. Turbines are now much more powerful and on taller...
Oh, the joys of higher water tables and old fashioned drainage systems! We live in Norfolk and bought a house with an ancient cess pit for sewage! I won't bore you with the problems!! We have just...
Seven of the UK's biggest land-based wind turbines (125 metres) are proposed to be erected within 1000 metres of our house. Restricting the answers to those who have ACTUAL and personal experience of...
My friend needs to send me an urgent e-mail on his laptop but cannot find the send / receive command on the toolbar! It seems to have disappeared! Neither does it appear under the Tools drop-down! A...
Here's a nice easy technical question! My 26" Bush digital lcd tv has got a pair of RMA audio output sockets. As the usual sound of the standard tv is a bit boomy for my ears, I decided to add a...
Does anyone have any idea how much a 2' x 2' concrete paving slab would weigh (I assume it's 2" thick)? The reason I ask is that I am supposed to be collecting 2 slabs this size and eleven (11)...
My grandfather, George Nicholas Lionda, was an Ottoman merchant witha business in London around the time of Ww1. He is believed to have moved to Germany in the early 1920s and relocated his business,...
Does anyone know where I can see the ORIGINAL entries in the Register of Births? My problem is that I and another person have exactly the same (unusual) name on one of our parent's birth certificates....
My grandfather was born with a Greek father and Turkish mother. Does anybody please know of any websites available to UK users to help track down his relatives? I am already a member of GenesReunited...
We live in a cottage on a fairly narrow rural lane. Our frontage is a grass verge, ranging in width from 1' to 2'6" between our hedge and the road. In winter we find that lorries and tractors chomp...
I am a woodworker and have just bought an old saw bench table (cast iron no less!). It came with a really heavy electric motor - Higgs Motors of Birmingham, type H operating on AC, 2BHP, 200volts, 50...
Does anyone remeber the story of Cantre Gwelod? where the gate man got drunk and didn't shut the gate and the water came in and flooded the town? is this the one to be seen from Borth / Ynyslas in mid...