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- HomePage - Contents
- Bizarre Postcards Home
- Pictorial Index
- 1913 Floods
- Accidental Deaths
- Animal Oddities
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Babies & Infants
- Banksy
- Benares, India
- Catacombs
- Cremation
- Criminals
- Death Beds
- Ethnic
- Famine
- Film Noir
- Fire
- Gargoyles, Grotesques & Chimera
- Holiday Greetings
- Human Oddities
- Humourous
- Hunting
- Natural Disasters
- Open Coffins
- Roadside Attractions
- Suicide
- Surreal
- Torture
- War Casualties
- Wordplay
- Bristol - A history and guide to my home city
- Place names - how some of the places in and around Bristol got their names
- Legends, Pre-History and the Romans
- Birth of the City
- 1100 - 1450 - Norman Times, Knights Templar, King John, New Frome and Bristol Bridge, Three Edwards, Trade Guilds and the Red Books, The Plague and after, The New Charters - we become a County, the Cathedral, St. Mary Redcliffe
- Voyages
- 1450 - 1650 - The War of the Roses, Social Life, Queen Elizabeth I's visit, the Great House, Red Lodge, America and other Colonies, The Civil War - Causes
- 1650 - 1700 - The Civil War, Charles II, Growing City, Diarists, Religious quarrels, Monmouth's Rebellion, The Bloody Assize, The Duke and Duchess, The Slave Trade, Other Trades and Industries
- 1700 Onwards - Social Life, Prisons, Relief for the Poor, Education, News, George Whitefield, the Wesleys and Methodism, Prisoners of War and Manor Park Hospital, The Industrial Revolution, cast iron, the roads, lead shot, postal services. Dr Tucker, Edmund Burke, Joseph Cottle and the poets, Humphry Davy
- City and Parish Boundaries
- Bristol's Seals, Arms and Logos (Page 1)
- Bristol's Seals, Arms and Logos (Page 2)
- Bristol's Seals, Arms and Logos (Page 3)
- Riots (Page 1) - Food Riot - 1709, Political Riot - 1714, Weavers Riots - 1728 / 1729, Turnpike Riots - 1727 - 1749, Food Riot - 1753, Bristol Bridge Riot - 1793, Political Reform Riot - 1831
- Riots (Page 2) - G.I. Riot - 1944, Political Riot - 1980
- The Blitz - The WWII bomb raids on Bristol
- Paul Plumley's wartime evacuation
- Virtute et Industrial
- Historical Perspective
- Avon Gorge (Page 1) - Leigh Woods, Stokeleigh Camp, Nightingale Valley, Suspension Bridge, Suicides
- Avon Gorge (Page 2) - Suspension Bridge, Flying
- Avon Gorge (Page 3) - Rock Slide, Observatory, Camera Obscura, Giant's Cave
- Bedminster (Page 1) - The New Cut, the Old Goal
- Bedminster (Page 2) - The Old Prison, Pubs, Bristol Blue Glass
- Bedminster (Page 3)
- Bedminster (Page 4)
- Bedminster (Page 5)
- Bedminster (Page 6)
- Bedminster (Page 7)
- Weare Street, Bedminster
- Brislington
- Broadmead - John Wesley's Chapel, Merchant Tailors Almshouse and Quakers Friars
- Castle Green (Page 1) - including Victoria Street
- Castle Green (Page 2)
- The Old City (Page 1)
- The Old City (Page 2)
- The Old City (Page 3)
- The Old City (Page 4)
- St. John the Baptist Church
- College Green (Page 1)
- College Green (Page 2)
- Christmas Steps (Page 1)
- Christmas Steps (Page 2)
- Clifton (Page 1)
- Clifton (Page 2) - St. Andrew's Church
- Pooh Corner
- City Docks
- The New Cut
- Hotwells
- St. George's House, St. Augustine's
- King Street (Page 1)
- King Street (Page 2)
- Old Market
- Captain Carey's Lane - A street demolished for the construction of the Temple Way Underpass and Old Market Roundabout in the 1960s
- St. George (Page 1)
- St. George (Page 2)
- St. George (Page 3)
- St. George (Page 4) - Old Georgians
- Temple (Page 1)
- Temple (Page 2)
- Temple (Page 3)
- Troopers Hill
- Union Street - Fry's chocolate & medieval excavations
- @ Bristol
- Arno's Vale Cemetery (Page 1)
- Arno's Vale Cemetery (Page 2)
- Blaise Castle (Page 1)
- Blaise Castle (Page 2) - including Sea Mills and Blaise Hamlet
- Bristol Bridge
- The Castle (Page 1) - The Norman Conquest, Robert Fitzhamon and Robert of Caen, Matilda, Maud and Stephen
- The Castle (Page 2) - King Richard I and King John, Taxes, The Mint, Wales
- The Castle (Page 3) - Peter de la Mare, Edward II, The Despensers, Death of Edward II, William Scrope, War of the Roses, Wyrcester's Account of the Castle, More Taxes
- The Castle (Page 4) - Religious Dissent, Civil War, The End of the Castle, Remains
- The Castle (Page 5) - Remains
- The Castle (Page 6) - Remains, Sources
- 1935 Hamham Woods Murder of Mrs. Gladys Nott
- Oldest House
- St. Mary Redcliffe (Page 1)
- St. Mary Redcliffe (Page 2)
- St. Mary Redcliffe (Page 3)
- 1893 Exhibition - The 1893 Industrial and Fine Arts Exhibition
- Anchorites and Hermits
- Breweries (Page 1)
- Breweries (Page 2)
- Lead Working
- Mackies Engineering, Kingswood
- Early Photography
- Polar Adventures
- E. S. & A. Robinson
- I. K. Brunel (Page 1) - Bristol Suspension Bridge, Temple Meads, Great Western Railways
- I. K. Brunel (Page 2) - SS Great Western, SS Great Britain
- A Brush with the Coles - A nicely written history of the Cole family by Geoff Bull
- Patrick Cotter O'Brien - The Bristol Giant
- E. N. Miles haberdashery - Cannon Street, Bedminster, Bristol
- Ma Pugsley
- Wilmot Family
- Yeamans - An important 17th century family
- Bristol Postcards (1 of 50)
- Maps, Photos, Books and Other Publications - A Bibliography
- Other Sites
- Help Wanted (Page 1) - can you help with some of these questions?
- Help Wanted (Page 2)
- Help Wanted (Page 3)
- Bristol, USA - There are 28 places named Bristol in the USA, here's something about them.
- Bristol, Canada - There are 3 places named Bristol in Canada, here's something about them.
- Computer Stuff - General stuff to do with computers that I found interesting.
- File archives in Windows XP and later
- Batch Files
- Creating monthly folders
- Backups using Robocopy - A batch file I wrote to backup my computer using Robocopy
- Cursor Positioning
- File Type Count - Counting file types by extension in folders
- Parsing the date and time
- Escape Character - using <, >, |, &, % and ^
- Testing for empty strings, special characters and the length of a string - user input, DEFINE
- SET: Odd behavior in loops, not updating - SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
- SET: Scope and life of variables - SETLOCAL, ENDLOCAL
- Pausing and delaying batch files - pause, ping, choice, sleep, timeout, waitfor
- Finding the drive letters from volume labels - vol, find, mountvol, vol, WMIC
- Changing the computer power settings - powercfg
- Run a batch file as an administrator
- Character Codes - ANSI, ASCII, code pages, control codes, UTF-8 and more!
- Comments in programming and script files
- Dell Latitude 5590 Laptop Upgrade - Adding a new drive and RAM
- Fedora Linux: Some notes
- Installing Fedora Linux
- Fedora Linux boot problems
- Fedora Linux sound problems
- Enabling MP3 support in Fedora Linux
- Free Stuff
- PowerShell
- PowerShell versions - Installing PowerShell and choosing which version to run
- Scanning halftone images
- Digitising analog audio
- Digitising analog video
- Output Streams (Redirecton)
- Tips and Tricks
- Optimize Windows 10
- Windows 10 startup program problem
- Windows Icons - Finding, extracting and using
- IBM World's Fair - IBM at the 1964/5 New York World's Fair
- Dads Navy Days
- A brief historical background
- Documents - Page 1
- Documents - Page 2
- Documents - Page 3
- Maps - Page 1 - areas covered by the various cruises
- Maps - Page 2
- HMS Gambia - the ship (1950)
- HMS Gambia - the ship (1951)
- HMS Gambia - the ship (1952)
- HMS Gambia - Collision (Page 1) - The collision with HMS Phoebe
- HMS Gambia - Collision (Page 2)
- HMS Gambia - the crew
- HMS Gambia - the places (1950)
- HMS Gambia - the places (1951)
- HMS Gambia - visitors
- HMS Warrior - The Ship
- HMS Warrior - The crew and other people
- HMS Warrior - Crewman Roy Dixey
- HMS Warrior - The diary of crewman Leslie Smith
- HMS Warrior - Rowland Victor Webb, information provided by Taff Webb
- HMS Warrior - the places
- HMS Warrior - the planes
- Other Royal Navy ships (Page 1) - HMCS Crusader, HMS Armada, HMS Bermuda, HMS Birmingham, HMS Breconshire, HMS Chieftain, HMS Exeter, HMS Glory, HMS Newfoundland, HMS Tiger, HMS Warrior, SS Gothic, and USS Des Moines
- Other Royal Navy ships (Page 2) - HMS Jamaica, HMS Kenya, HMS Kite, HMS Magpie, HMS Peacock, HMS Phoebe, HMS Sheffield, and PNS Tariq
- Other Royal Navy ships (Page 3) - HMS Vanguard, HMS Wrangler
- Other Royal Navy ships (Page 4) - South African Navy
- Before & After
- ARA Independencia - courtesy of Carlos Rufino
- ARA Independencia - courtesy of Victor Driussi
- ARA Independencia - more photographs, courtesy of Victor Driussi
- ARA Independencia - courtesy of Carlos Rufino. These images are from the film "La muchachada de a bordo"
- ARA Independencia - courtesy of Carlos Rufino. Colour images from the film "La muchachada de a bordo"
- ARA Independencia - courtesy of Carlos Rufino. Colour images from the film "La muchachada de a bordo"
- Spithead Review 1953 - courtesy of Ray Holden
- Spithead Review 1953 - courtesy of David Killelay
- HMS Breconshire
- HMS Chevron - One of Ray Holden's ships
- HMS Chevron's Bell - How the bell ended up in a school in New Zealand
- HMS Cook - One of Denys Powell's ships
- HMS Diamond / HMS Swiftsure Collision, 1953
- HMS Liverpool - One of Ray Holden's ships
- HMS Phoebe
- HMS Wrangler
- Alick Lavers' recollections of his time in the Royal Navy
- Dazzle Camouflage
- Name Types
- Peanut Club - Peanut Club, plastic surgery, Guinea Pig Club
- Other Sites
- Four Wheelin' - Our off-road adventures
- Google Charts API
- Using Google Sheets as a data source
- Get & set data in a datatable
- Calculations
- Clickable Charts
- CSV files as a data source
- Multiple Axes in a Chart
- Saving a Chart as an Image
- Multiple Charts on a Page
- Tables: Adding Links
- Tables: Tooltips & Popups
- Tables: Using Dates
- Timelines
- Formatting Tooltips
- Transpose Data
- Wide Data Value Ranges
- Holidays & Trips
- Roadside Attractions
- Bristol 2025 - Bristol, Somerset and Wiltshire
- New England / Canada 2011
- Paris 2008
- Western States 1995
- Norway 1982
- Germany 1982
- Russia 1981
- Paris 1980
- House Renovations - "The Year of the House"
- Jukebox - Repair and refurbishment of a 1971 Ami/Rowe MM5 Presidential jukebox
- Jukebox: Operating Sequence
- Jukebox: Troubleshooting
- Jukebox: PhonoVue PV1
- Magi-cartridge Projectors
- Terre Haute House Home Introduction
- Cellar 1
- Cellar 2
- Cellar 3
- Cellar 4
- Cellar 5
- Cellar 6
- Cellar 7
- Cellar 8
- Dining Room
- Games Room 1 - Remodel after termite infestation
- Games Room 2
- Kitchen 1
- Kitchen 2
- Pool 1
- Pool 2
- Pool 3
- Pool 4
- Pool 5
- Pool 6
- Yard
- Audio Visual Equipment - Cleaning
- Honeywell HHF540 Fan Heater - Cleaning
- Kenmore 233 Range Hood - Repair or Replace?
- MTD Yard Machines Chipper/Shredder - Maintenance and Repair
- Toucan Patio Umbrellas - Repair
- Bristol Introduction
- Miscellany
- Six Degrees of Separation
- Afghanistan
- Biological Warfare
- DW Canoe Race
- The Donner Party
- The Eastland
- The Edmund Fitzgerald
- Great Britain, United Kingdom and the British Isles
- K Class Submarines (Page 1)
- K Class Submarines (Page 2)
- General George Brinton McClellan
- Murder
- Plagiarism
- Product Placement
- Racial Insults
- Student Managed Investment Funds
- Ten Plagues of Egypt
- UK & US Flags
- Optical Illusions - Index
- Artist Index
- An M C Escher collection
- An Arcadio Esquivel collection
- A Rene Magritte collection
- A Sandro del Prete collection
- An Oscar Reutersvärd collection
- A Rex Whistler collection
- This or that
- Almost real
- Strange Pictures (Page 1) - Strange pictures and peculiar landscapes
- Strange Pictures (Page 2) - Strange pictures and peculiar landscapes
- Can you believe your eyes? (Page 1)
- Can you believe your eyes? (Page 2)
- Can you believe your eyes? (Page 3)
- Can you believe your eyes? (Page 4)
- Faces (Page 1) - Faces in clouds, landscapes, Mars, the Moon and more
- Faces (Rocks 1) - Faces in rock formations
- Faces (Rocks 2) - Faces in rock formations
- Faces (WTC) - Faces in the destruction of the WTC
- Faces (Virgin Mary) - Images of the Virgin Mary
- Inversion Illusions
- My Ideas
- Vision (Page 1) - Vision, perception and the brain, monocular clues
- Vision (Page 2) - Monocular clues
- Vision (Page 3) - Binocular clues, SIRDS, SIRTS, cultural differences
- Other Sites
- Postcards Home
- Preservation
- Clues to Dating
- Postcard Backs 1
- Postcard Backs 2
- Postcard Backs 3
- Publishers
- Variations & Generic
- Non-card Postcards - Leather and Wood
- Phonocards - Postcards with recorded audio
- Sources & Resources
- QBasic
- Errors - Common programming and 'user' errors
- 40lb Weight - a mathematical problem solved
- Bits - Various bits and pieces, MOD
- Chance - random numbers
- Colours
- Dates - date and calandar functions
- Delays - pausing or stopping a program
- Directories - The QBasic dir function is not the same as the command line dir command
- File Dialog - a file / directory dialog box
- Files - SDF and CSV data files
- Input - User input validation, keyboard return codes
- Matching - text matching and soundex
- Menus - Text menu, simple menu, multi-column menu, horizontally scrolling menu
- Mouse - of mice and interupts
- Numbers - PI, nth roots, number series, Catalan, Factorials, Fibonacci, Harmonic, Mersenne Prime, Pascal, Perfect, Prime, Square, Triangular and Vampire series, number base conversion
- SeqNo - Sequence numbers
- SIRDS - Single Image Random Dot Stereograms
- Sorts - sortation techniques, Bubble and Quick sorts
- Text - text manipulation routines, scrolling text
- Timer - time functions, setting and resetting the system clock
- Downloads - QBasic files from the site available to you
- Quarry Postcards - Postcards of the limestone quarries in Indiana
- Terre Haute - A history and guide to my new home of Terre Haute, Indiana
- Prehistory
- Indians
- Explorers
- Sin City (1)
- Sin City (2)
- The Trial of Donn M. Roberts (Page 1)
- Steve Martin
- Thomas Puckett - The man that drove a bear
- Hulman Center Performances
- Postcards (Page 1 of 267)
- Union Hospital
- Ghosts
- 2002 Events (Cars) - Custom Car show - 19th May
- 2002 Events (Planes) - Air Show - 14th July
- 2002 Events (Hovercraft) - World Hovercraft Championships - 22nd September
- Snow Rollers (Page 1) - A once in a lifetime phenomenon - general views
- Snow Rollers (Page 2) - The Trails
- Snow Rollers (Page 3)
- Snow Rollers (Page 4)
- Snow Rollers (Page 5)
- Differences (Page 1) - Some thoughts on Britain and America
- Differences (Page 2)
- Differences (Page 3)
- Differences (Page 4) - Marshall, Illinois
- Other Stuff
- Fowler - Fowler family history from 1897
- Railroads
- WXXR Radio Hijack
- Indiana and Pi - When Indiana tried to change the value of Pi
- Other Sites
- Wabash River Postcards (1 of 34)
- War Stories - Index
- War Pics 1 - Trench, Hide, Toilet, My 432, Ferret, Canoe
- War Pics 2 - Sleep, Climbing, Rescue, Air Landing, Heavy drop, No Fun
- Recruits 1 - Drill, Right Wheel, Dustbins, Chairs
- Recruits 2 - Brasso, Lake, Jail, Why?, Not funny at all
- Dumps - Toilet humour
- Exercise 1 - Divisional attack
- Exercise 2 - An old Ferret
- Exercise 3 - Brrrr
- Exercise 4 - Bath, Sleep, Umbrella, Love, Stallingrad, Security, Mortar, Water, Idle
- Vehicles - Beach Landing, Staff car 1, Staff car 2, Fire, Rescue, Bike
- NBC - Nuclear, Biological and Chemical
- Danger UXB - Mortars, Shell, Fire, Starlight, Grenade, Danger Close, End of Course
- Dangerous - Chickens, Meeting People, FIBUA, Cordite
- By Air and by Sea - Helicopters, Assault, Heavy Drop, Display, At Sea, Teargas & Beer, Long Drop, Canada v US Navy, Other Sites
- Web Stuff - Some notes about setting up a home web server. Notes about HTML, CSS and JavasScript problems I found interesting.
- Arguments against running a home server
- Accessing server on LAN
- Controlling Apache
- Securing Apache
- Apache Server Status
- Updating Apache
- 2025 Server Upgrade
- Cable Modems
- Domain Name Registrar Transfers
- Google Search Console - Fixing errors
- Redirection - Automatic redirection between web pages
- Referer Spam
- Router Settings - Router settings when running a home web server
- Spectrum SAX1V1S WiFi 6 Router
- Enabling SSL in Apache Windows web server
- Renewing SSL checking and renewing SSL Certificates
- Utilities - Useful utilities for checking accessibility, errors, loading speed and more
- Webmaster Spam
- Web Log Files
- Splitting Logs
- Web Log Analyzers List
- Analog
- AWStats
- Log Parser
- Log statistics software comparison
- W3Perl
- Webalizer
- Linux Web Server
- 2003 Windows Web Server
- (Page 1) - installation and setup, router
- (Page 2) - IP address, firewall, logs
- (Page 3) - remote control, FTP, dynamic DNS, other sites
- Windows Web Server 2020
- Alternative Search Engines
- Browsers
- How do I add an icon to the address bar? (HTML)
- How can I add my page to the Favorites menu? (JavaScript)
- How can I make my page the start page? (JavaScript)
- How do I make an image follow the cursor? (JavaScript)
- Another interesting cursor effect (JavaScript)
- Shake the browser window (JavaScript)
- Browser Compliance
- Capture image of a full web page
- Website structure visualizations
- Close blocked exit web page
- Email: How it works
- Perl
- Website Basics - Editors, Design, Technology, Compatibility, Organization, Naming, Conventions & Defaults, Hosts, FTP & Uploading, Backups, Recovery
- Web & Browser Tips & Tricks
- Code Tips
- Design
- Web Templates
- MIDI Files - Playing MIDI Files on web pages
- Playing Audio on Websites - Includes how to create an audio player
- <details> Tag - A horizontal menu
- Pseudo Target Menu - A menu made using the CSS target pseudo class
- Forms
- Frames
- HTML Page Includes - Inserting the same code on different pages
- Image Optimization
- Image Q & A - Some notes about using images on the web
- Responsive Image Maps
- Linkrot - What it is and how to mitigate it
- Links
- Linking web files
- Lycos UK - Lycos specific - Adverts, Bandwidth, Bug Reports, Disabled Sites, Downloads, Downtime, File Names, File Storage, FTP, Hot Linking, Password Protected Directories, Red Measure & Red Sheriff, Technologies, Under Construction, Useful URLs
- Site Search Styling - Styling the Google Custom Search Engine
- Video
- Responsive Video Embedding
- Random
- Serial Listings - Using JavaScript and CSS with ASCII / UTF-8 character codes
- Speed Tips for JavaScript
- Toggle Variables
- Parse URL
- Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
- Indiana State University's Early HTTP Presence
- PowerShell
- HTTP Requests - Information from web sites
- A web scraper - A simple web scraper in PowerShell
- Qualtrics Date Picker
- Webrings
- Site Utilities
- About This Site - Information about this site and some credits
- Accessibility - This site's accessibility
- Back Links - Links to sites that have links to mine
- Contact Me - Ways of contacting me
- Graduated Colour Fills 1
- Graduated Colour Fills 2
- Links - Useful links
- Site Menus - The various menus used on the site over the years
- Folder Tree Menu - A folder tree menu used on the site
- Breadcrumbs - JavaScript breadcrumb navigation
- Pagination
- Power Management
- Site Search
- Statistics
- Vignettes 1
- Vignettes 2
- Latest Updates - Latest updates to this site
- Webrings this site belongs to
- About Ray - My own little ego trip
- Graduation - I gained my Degree of Associate of Applied Science in Computer Information Technology on 6th May 2004
- Some of my injuries and illnesses (1) - some of these are pretty interesting and not too yucky
- Some more of my injuries and illnesses (2)
- Some more of my injuries and illnesses (3)
- Some more of my injuries and illnesses (4)
- Shoes - The sad fate of my shoes
- Favourite music and films
- Links - Some of my favourite web sites
- Web Rings - The webrings this site is linked to