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Recent Posts
- A Walk in Preston 19th January 2024 Friargate area
- A walk in Preston 21st October 2023
- Avenham Park in June 2023
- Preston to Leyland and back by bus and train 11th May 2023
- A Walk in Preston 27th April 2023
- The Mayor of Preston Visits The Ribble Steam Railway 25th March 2023
- A walk in Preston Centre 21st March 2023
- A Walk in Preston Centre 10th March 2023
- A walk in Preston Centre and Beatrice Todd on International Women’s Day 8th March 2023
- Deepdale Retail Centre and Preston Football Ground walk – 11th February 2023
- Well known Preston historian dies
- Preston Centre walk 31st January 2023
- A few photos of Preston 9th January 2023
- Book Review: Types and Shadows – A history of Preston City Parish
- A few photos from a walk in Preston 1st November 2022
- Harris Museum and Art Gallery Jigsaw 2022
- Covid 19 data in Preston March 15th 2021
- British Commercial Vehicle Museum re-opens after Covid Closure
- Harris Your Place – Plan up for Review
- Work Starts on new Western Distributor Road
- The Harris Open Art Exhibition 2019
- Trains in Preston: A time of change December 2019
- Harris Art Gallery Exhibition – Beautiful and Brutal 50 years of Preston Bus Station
- A Walk from Preston Station
- Railway Improvements – New trains and electrification Northern Rail
- A visit to The Ribble Steam Railway and Museum
- Old Tram Road Bridge Closed
- Museum of the Moon at the Harris
- The Preston Open Art Exhibition at The Harris
- Wires to Bolton
- The Harris: The Renewal
- Harris 125th and Triple Exhibition
- North End low down
- Railway Anniversary Month and Strand Road closure
- Barton Grange turns on the entertainment with style
- Dear Harris
- Tail winds at BAE Systems Lancashire
- Comics at the Harris
- Fair Do to Northern Rail?
- Ikea pull out, will NHS move in
Archives
Category Archives: Technology
Volcanic Ash blowing over Lancashire
Today, flights all over northern Britain have been grounded because of volcanic ash from Iceland. Quite a coincidence to have these northerly winds at the same time as a volcano erupts. Look out for bright sunsets. Many years ago a … Continue reading
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High Speed Rail from Manchester, not Preston, announced
The government announced its proposed 250mph High Speed Rail link plan today with a Y shaped network. The line to Birmingham from Euston is to be first followed by a line to Manchester and a separate one from Birmingham to Sheffield … Continue reading
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Space Shuttle – International Space Station over Preston
Missed it again. Friday morning, 19th Feb, at 5.26am the Space Shuttle, Endeavour, and the International Space Station flew over Preston before separating, it was 200 miles high at 36 degrees above the horizon so not directly overhead. Very bright as well. Endeavour is … Continue reading
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Island of Preston
The Coastal Management Plan for the next 100 years has been issued and the coast around the Ribble estuary is largely to be protected except for an area on the south bank that will be allowed to make a managed … Continue reading
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Combined Heat and Power from Baxi
Baxi say they are geared up to deliver up to 20,000 combined heat and power units a year from their Preston, Bamber Bridge, plant. The government is issuing contracts worth billions of pounds for green energy but the great majority of the … Continue reading
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High Speed Rail to miss Preston?
The High Speed 2 Company submitted its plans to Lord Adonis who will declare the preferred routes in March 2010. To date the proposal has shown a line up the west coast via Preston to Glasgow but yesterdays newspapers seemed cooler on this idea. … Continue reading
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Digital Switchover Day – 2nd Dec 2009
What a shock only a black and white fuzz on TV. After watching it for a while decided to tell my old aunt that the signal had gone off. It wasn’t the signal that bothered her though, it was the … Continue reading
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International Space Station over Preston
The International Space Station with Space Shuttle Atlantis was visible from Preston yesterday morning (24th Nov) at 4.46 and it was very bright (if no clouds), I was in bed and it was probably raining. Atlantis undocked from the International … Continue reading
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Digital Switchover and further to HD
Wednesday 2nd December the freeview digital changeover will be complete in the Granada region. Also the power at the transmitter becomes 10 times stronger. Wow does that make our aerial glow? Probably not, I’ll add just in case someone thinks it does. … Continue reading
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Nuclear Irish Sea announced
Today the government announced 5 new nuclear power stations on the shore of the Irish Sea. Three in Cumbria, 1 at Heysham, 1 in Anglesey. There are currently 3 that have limited life remaining. The government has also announced a … Continue reading
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Digital Switchover Day for BBC2
Yesterday BBC2 went digital in the Granada region. The person managing the changeover said they’d only had 10,000 calls yesterday so it went well. At the time I thought it sounds a lot as BBC2 doesn’t get a big audience. … Continue reading
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Internet Explorer Version 8 and 10 minutes to get football results in the brave new digital TV world
As a part-time web designer I find IE8 has gone from the extreme of earlier issues to the other extreme in terms of using web-standards. My web-design software puts special code into pages to allow for the foibles of earlier versions … Continue reading
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Duke of Edinburgh’s wise words about TV technology
The Duke of Edinburgh is reported as saying TV remotes are too complex. I guess over 95% of the population are probably able to use them eventually without difficulty even if they don’t use all the functions. I have an elderly … Continue reading
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Councillors Driver and Hudson man the barricades
Two councillors, Geoff Driver of Lancashire County Council and Ken Hudson of Preston City Council have had a letter published in the Times (8th Oct) defending the location of the National Football Museum in Preston. This was after Matt Dickinson the Times … Continue reading
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Preston FM your community radio
Driving round Preston the other day a radio station I hadn’t heard of popped onto my radio. Preston FM 103.2MHz. Sounded a bit ‘localish’ although I’ve listened to a couple of their music programmes and they’re OK. So I’m giving … Continue reading
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BAE SYSTEMS and SFO
BAE SYSTEMS, the biggest high tech employer in Lancashire and the UK, is in the news today. The Serious Fraud Office are saying they will ask the Attorney General to press charges with a punitive £1000 million fine for offering … Continue reading
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Sustainable house standards – 2016 and all that
There has been talk in the news recently about the standards for houses to meet ‘low carbon’ requirements. Developers say it will cost £30,000 to meet the 2016 ‘zero carbon’ standard. Although it is also said the cost is overstated … Continue reading
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Smart Meters, any use?
I was reading an article by Ed Milliband saying smart meters will give us a responsive more efficient electricity grid, enable billing without a meter reader and for consumers to be aware of what they using. All this at a cost … Continue reading
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Wind Turbine near Garstang
A planning debate on a new Wind Turbine near Garstang has been on-going for nearly 2 years and it appears that the turbine is to be built after the local council was over-ridden by the Planning Inspectorate. This is an … Continue reading
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More on Digital Switchover
Went on a visit to my old aunt south of Preston. She had a letter from an alleged Switchover Help Scheme saying the BBC can help you switch to digital TV. It mentioned a company called DSHS Ltd sounds a … Continue reading
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