Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@powys.org> wrote: > On 03/12/2015 4:45 p.m., John Hill wrote: > > Wendy Archer via <genbrit@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > >> Various archive collections put out advent calendars at this time of > >> year. Not all the windows relate to family history, but they're fun, and > >> maybe give ideas about types of collections worth exploring. Both > >> Aberystwyth and Sheffield have some good calendars this year. > >> > >> http://www.aber.ac.uk/�/collect�/special-collections/advent/ > >> > >> http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/libra�/special/adventcalendar2015 > >> > >> Wendy > > > > Both of these come up with nothing :-( > > > > The first says 404, Page not found and the second, This page cannot be > > displayed. > > > > I see <a-circumflex><Euro symbol><?></> in each; these are probably > > codings for a character that does not decode properly on my iMac. In the > > Aberstwyth one it comes immediately after aber.ac.uk/ > > > > What should it be? > > I had the same experience and identified the same funny constructs as > the probable causes. > > What I did was to go to the university home page in each case (the bit > between '//' and the first '/') and use their search facilities for the > word 'advent'. This brought up these URLs: > > Aberystwyth: > <https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/collections/special-collections/advent/> > > Sheffield: > <http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/special/adventcalendar2015> > > Curiously there are none of the funny expressions in either of these > URLs. And they work here at least. They work for me, too. Thank you. I come from Sheffield, and I remember the picture of the frozen fountain (or one very like it) in an album of photographs we had. Alas, it vanished some 60 years ago :-( I wonder what became of it? John. -- Please reply to john at yclept dot wanadoo dot co dot uk.