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Hi Bendywendy,

Just stumbled across your question by accident so I thought I'd log in to give you at least an initial reply.

The "News Theatre" was located in City Square, Leeds and was part of the Queens Hotel and City Station art deco building complex. I can recall visiting it regularly as a child in the early 1960s where they showed B and C rate movies and "Pathe News". I am a great lover of Art Deco architecture and I think that's where I got that passion.

It later changed its name to the Classic and then to the Tatler (an adults only cinema venue).

There are some old photos with descriptions on the Leodis site at:

http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2004218_54516238
and
http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2009811_169332&DISPLAY=FULL&COMMENT=YES
and
http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20041210_19771975
and
http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200836_166312

There is an article about News Theatres around the world and what they were at:

http://bufvc.ac.uk/newsonscreen/davidlean/news-theatres

There is an option for a paid article about news theatres in general at:

https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/JBCTV.2005.2.2.227

Hope that helps. You might have found some of these links already and want more personal information, but I'm afraid my memories of the News Theatre are rather vague.

Best wishes

Hi,

Several of my ancestors on both sides of the family have been coal miners. This includes my grandfather, William Henry Maybury, who lived at Middlestown, West Yorkshire in the 1920s to 30s, and went over the fields in the Coxley Valley to a pit at Netherton (possibly Denby Grange, but not confirmed - there are another two in the immediate area.

Has anyone ever had any success in obtaining employment information about individual miners' employment from any source? He was not killed or injured, so he is not in those lists. There seems to be nothing in local Wakefield archives. Anybody been able to successfully obtain information from the NUM perhaps, or elsewhere?

All ideas welcome.
Thanks

Hi,

For the majority of applications, both processors should do just fine, and you would probably notice little difference between them in practice. At one time Intel was miles ahead, and then AMD caught them up. Since then they've been neck and neck, each one dropping back over time.

The benefit of dual-core (and more recent quad core) processors is extra speed and the ability to run multiple demanding applications all at the same time. For the uses you've listed, I would agree that in practice it would probably make little difference for you.

Perhaps an important issue is what operating system your new computer will run. The newer the operating system, the greater demands it places upon the system, and the greater the amount of disk space needed. Memory is the most important. Windows 7 recommends 2Gb ram - but I would go for at least 4, even for your purposes, or you'll have to upgrade later. So if it's running Windows 7, then you'll need to start from a higher minimum specification. If you've found a system with Windows XP, bear in mind that it's now in the process of being phased out and only has a few years left, so you may want to upgrade later.

The most frustrating thing is slow operation, which can often be caused simply by a system giving a lot of its energy to redrawing the screen display. It's better to get a system with a separate graphics card, as this solves one of the biggest bottlenecks. This may sound technical, but it's fundamental.

But if you've got a reasonably fast computer with a reasonable amount of memory and a separate graphics card, then you should have no worries.

Hope that helps

Hi falcybe,

There doesn't necessarily have to be a "nasty" on an email you sent for a second email to be pulled out and held. They have a very tight anti-spam policy, so sometimes even if anyone sends just two emails in succession (without a length of time between them - sometimes as much as an hour) then it trips their spam filter.

Hi joboy,

I have searched through my PC using just the word 'Yahoo' and found just one folder which was created in 1999 that has about 120 files in it all waiting to be extracted ......... which I wont do ......... but there is no provision to delete any individual file nor the complete folder.

If you none of the files in the Yahoo directory have been installed, then you should just be able to select them (even compressed zip files) by left-clicking once and then pressing the delete key.

You should be able to do the same if you go to outside the directory itself, to delete the directory. If you've searched for the files and they come up in a list of files found, you should also be able to delete them there by this method - assuming you're using My Computer for the search (Start Button > My Computer)

But just to check - you aren't, or have not been a BT customer have you? As I indicated before, All BT's email is run by Yahoo, so it may be that this directory has been installed automatically by the BT setup if you are a BT customer.

Hi again,

Thanks again for the extra posts.

I have created a furor! I'm glad to see I'm not the only perfectionist in tow - so Guy, your input has been particularly helpful. And - as I thought - sleep is at a premium for us all!

Just for the record, my only 'dud' was actually not a certificate, but a transcription from the UK 1911 census site, which cost very little comparatively. But I'm glad I said what I did, because otherwise I would not have known about the option to claim back for Dud certs.

Sorry, could you please clarify, Dobfarm - I can get marriage certificates from libraries...? Or do you mean I can get Parish registers that way - which have the same info?

James 1950 - that sounds a very good way of working. I'm using computer software, but where I include information on the system relates to how much certainty I have. So I guess we're operating with a similar style.

Best wishes