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Have you considered brazing?

There is a box marked '25' in Chepstow Road next to the fence of the green in St Stephen's Gardens.

No idea if it's the moved version of the old one, of course.

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From this article, it also seems that the name never was 'Tblisi'

Yes, I read the article. It's the Tblisi-Tbilisi change I was talking about. We both use Tblisi, and I'm sure that's what we were taught when I learned Russian, and it also persists (495000 results on Google). We didn't all just invent that, yet Soviet era Russian maps say Tbilisi, so we didn't get it from them. Maybe it is just an error which refuses to die :)

Yes, it's probably an error. As I said above, it may be because the first 'i' is elided by many speakers. I don't know Russian so have no idea why that would happen, but it seems a possibility.

I'd like to remove an annoying voiceover from a video that's preventing me from fully transcribing a song lyric. Are there any audio tools that make this reasonably easy for someone who's never done anything like it before? Ideally free software, should run on Linux, happy to pay something for it.

Have you considered cycle training?

I had somehow discounted it. Maybe brazing would be the better option to learn/use?

@mdcc_tester
The first record I can find of Dynamo Tbilisi playing a British team is
in the UEFA Cup 73-74. They played Spurs.
https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news-archive-1/dinamo-tbilisi-vs-spurs-73-gallery-special/
The spelling has all 3 'i's.

@user75204

Come on we need to know if this wins the prize...

Thanks @HarmanMogul, an original photo from around that time great!. I've never heard of Cedric Clayson so thanks for that too. It definitely has the right pattern on the wall. Here is the original again for this page:

I've been over to have a look, St Stephen's Gardens itself just has house fronts and steps, so it must have been at the ends. The eastern end is Chepstow Road, one does not match at all and here is the other one. It is on the end where I normally expect the junction boxes to be.

The two windows don't look recent so I don't think it was that end. Top detective work by @Oliver Schick on identifying the '25' junction box on Chepstow Rd, that really is a good match, but having just 'steetviewed' all of Chepstow Road I can't see anywhere along there that looks like the original photo.

Moving over to the house ends at the western end of St Stephen's Gardens and that is Shrewsbury Rd as Oliver says. Here's one:

That does look promising, it could have been there, but there is no junction box, though as Oliver says this could have been moved. The pavement does look very similar but in @HarmanMogul's original pic and my recent one above, I can't see a manhole/utilities access cover that's in front of the junction box on the original photo. Do you remember approx what year your photo was taken @HarmanMogul? The pavement looks pretty new in your photo, maybe between the original pic and yours, they moved the junction box that maybe meant it didn't need an access cover, so they got rid of that too.

The other side is the one that Oliver linked to, seen again here:

The plaster pattern matches again, but it does look like those windows are new and that a basement has been converted, so it could have been that if that looked different in the past. What makes me think twice about this side is that the road slopes down more on this side and is on an obvious slope unlike the original.

@chez_jay I'd love to be able to say for sure but I'm afraid I can't confirm if either of those is the right answer. Just to add another option, this is the one I had identified. It has a junction box numbered 25, the plaster pattern matches, its on a level road, at the end of a road and its on Faraday Rd, just off Ladbroke Grove, so the right area. Seen here:

So we have 2 junction boxes in the same area numbered 25, that is confusing! And there's some other junction boxes next to it, seen in this other shot.

Note the far junction box appears to have the same manhole/utility cover in front of it as the original photo, but there are no lines on the wall to the left, like the original. I note the junction boxes are different in style too, maybe they changed them all over the years and they have been in slightly different locations along the wall over the years, or perhaps the covers in front of the junction box on the right used to look like the other ones?

Thanks very much for your help everyone, what do you think? I can't say I'm convinced by either, but top work getting that far, I'll report back if I find anything else.

Ten years ago there was a great little French-Hungarian fusion place called “M” but no idea if it’s still going now.

I purchased a replacement Shimano R7000/5800 cassette. Is it normal for the teeth to be this shape? They only appear to be like this on these two teeth on the one ring.

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They look ok from here.

Hows about another one?

This is apparently pretty famous, it inspired the naming of a band of the same name, and has been copied in other locations as recently as 2006. A request was even published in the Times in April 1974 to uncover the meaning, but definitive answers were not forthcoming....maybe its just that cats like plain crisps :)

It seems the phrase was first seen in the kitchen of a series of squats in Grosvenor Rd in Richmond. The phrase became the motto for the squatters and even made it onto their flag, and eventually made it outside to the roundabout in question.

The book just states its in Richmond somewhere, and I have seen mention online that it was maybe near Kew Road and/or near the swimming baths. I'm not familiar with the area, but this is the only possible lead I have so far.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4650385,-0.2998906,3a,75y,50.82h,95.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shuV42k2-KRE9XroHJBxsvg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Again remember over 40 years have passed. There is a door in the wall in the current image that is not in the original, but otherwise its looks pretty similar, the door could easily have been added later. Unlike the previous one I posted, this was there for along time, so I'm more hopeful more people would have seen it, I don't suppose anyone recalls where it was located exactly do you?
@HarmanMogul you weren't over in Richmond in the 70's on your Cedric Clayson were you :)

Any confirmation of the location gratefully received, or any other suggestions welcome :)

It does still exist. Someone else up thread recommended it. Im heading there tomorrow.

Having spent a fair amount of time working in the large glass building on the right side of your map link, I am pretty sure that it is not the right building. You have brick (on the corner) vs breezeblock (in the photo) .

I cannot think of anything along the A316 near the current baths that looks like that. So much of Richmond is proper old. One possibility is that if it was taken along the A316, the original building was torn down at some point - there are enough newer buildings around there to make that a possibility.

The glass fronted building may have been the original location or possibly the cop shop here

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4641437,-0.3010964,3a,75y,78.25h,94.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sizoFd_gJlgexyPsFObGnbg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

It would depend on construction dates. Do you have a date for that pic?

Thanks for the info and suggestions @Aroogah. I've discovered from some other searches than not only have some buildings gone, some entire streets have been eradicated, so its very possible the building itself is long gone.

As for the exact date of the picture the book doesn't give dates, but the squats with which it is associated was there from 1972-76, the Times article trying to trace info on it was in 1974, so between 72-74.

This one was pretty well known, so I'm confident we'll eventually unearth more on this one, thanks again.

Google earth has this "time machine" funktion which is pretty neat, to check if indeed the street has gone.
You can scroll down in time when in aerial photo mode. We use it often at work (architect).

Can you elaborate how you achieve this please?
It isn't apparent when I'm in aerial photo mode.
Ta.

@Rodolfo thanks that sounds very handy, is it a special feature/extra? I've not really used Google Earth before so just went and had a look, but as @JurekB says I couldn't figure it out. I put it into help and it said 'select view and then select through time' or something but I couldn't even see the 'view' menu....but that could just be me, my technology skills are more 1970's than 2010's.

Can you elaborate how you achieve this please?
It isn't apparent when I'm in aerial photo mode.

Use the "real" Google Earth, not Google Maps in aerial photo mode.

In Windows it looks like this -

Click here then drag the slider back.
e: beaten

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Ace!
Thank you. That's no more work being done today.....

beaten

your red arrow looks better than mine though
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The fellow forumers above have explained it perfectly already thanks.
And yes, it's really cool.
The detail of the Google earth 3D city models is also incredible, what a time to be alive etc. etc.

I'm half Hungarian, go to Budapest once a year...

Definitely go to Széchenyi Baths if you've never been.

Drinks in the evening – I recommend
Szimpla Kert & Anker Klub for the 'ruin pub' experience.
Jedermann on Ráday utca 58 does live jazz most evenings and good drinks.
Taskaradio eszpresszo is a 70s retro bar on Papnövelde utca 8

Food
Borkonyha Winekitchen, Sas u. 3 - the food is sort of modern Hungarian, and very, very good. Plus good wine. Booking needed. Porky deliciousness.
A really nice Jewish-style bistro is Macesz Huszar, Dob u. 26 - a LOT of meat!