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Image 1 — BBC Casualty Exterior 2002-2011
Image 2 — BBC Casualty Exterior 2002-2011
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Image 4 — BBC Casualty Exterior 2002-2011
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BBC Casualty Exterior 2002-2011

Recently I was on the trading estate in Lawrence Hill and roughly knew where it was they had the set. I can remember watching it as a child with my Mum. We would both try to see somewhere we knew first before the other.

Before here, they filmed the exterior at Ashley Down College but moved it here in 2002. You will see in the photos, they had a set front around the existing buildings and then the entrance to the hospital was just extended out. This was the exterior only. The "Casualty Warehouse" where they filmed the indoor scenes was about 5 minutes away on a different estate inside a warehouse. In 2011 the BBC moved the filming to Wales. It's a bit of a shame unless you knew, you wouldn't know what was once there. I hope you enjoy!

u/Brsuk1 — 3 days ago
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ENGLAND: I’ve saved over £500 NHS prescriptions in 3 years Still each year I renew it I’m surprised how many people don’t do this.

Hey everyone. This certainly isn’t a new thing! But last year on my certificate renewal I did a post. It surprised me how many people are unaware of it. I pay £11.45 per month via direct debit (For 10 months). That covers all of my NHS prescriptions for 1 year. For some reason they split payment to 10 months not 12.

I’m prescribed 2 ADHD medications per 28 days. That’s £19.80 × 13 = £257.40 but with the PPCertiricate I only pay £11.45 x 10 =£114.50

This then covers me for ANY NHS prescriptions. I ended up using it for a few other prescriptions within the year too, it covers any prescription in your name. I definitely saved over £500 in prescription costs in the 3 years

If you need 12 single prescriptions or more in 1 year and you’re in England it’s simple. You’re wasting money by not doing this.

https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/prescriptions/save-money-with-a-prescription-prepayment-certificate-ppc/

u/Brsuk1 — 13 days ago
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Helping Gramps with his solar. Was his service just a sales pitch for a new battery?

Hello everyone just after some advice. Granny and Gramps had solar for years, she died 2 years ago. Now I am managing it alongside Gramps but she really did know more than him about it. Today my Grandfather had a service done and I was actually at his at the time and I was a bit uncomfortable. I felt like it wasn’t a service and more a sales pitch for a new battery system. Whatever way you look at it, he seemed very knowledgeable but there were some clear strong pushes to buy a new battery as this one isn’t charging. If I hadn’t been at his today, honestly he would have spent £10,000 minimum today.

My main question is there any reason why the battery would be turned off?
During the explanation they explained the battery was low, on the inverter he showed us the battery was giving nothing to the house. Then he got out his brochures and started showing batteries. Conveniently with deals ending tomorrow. I took photos of everything and I did give it to ChatGPT. At first it’s agreed the battery doesn’t seem to be working but when I sent it photos of the battery…… straight away it said the battery isn’t turned on so that’s why we were getting those readings on the inverter that’s why the battery is low. I looked at the battery and yes, the on off button the battery isn’t on. but could this maybe just be a mistake? He’s forgot to turn it back on after the service?

Feed into the Grid.
My Gramps invested in solar very early on and he’s on a very good old tariff. Selling at 0.74p he gets around £1600 annually.

Using from the Grid
He uses around 240kwh per month from the grid.

I think potentially the battery was turned off to show us some poor readings to buy a new battery and that I need to go back and turn the battery on and look again in a few days time at all the readings. OR an unfortunate but real possibility at some point the battery was turned off and we’ve not known for up to 2 years. Any advice here for a grandson trying to learn all of this and really am I safe to turn the battery on? I know that’s quite obvious to other people but is there a reason why the battery would be turned off?

Thanks

Adding more due to comments: After posting from just a few comments…… IM GLAD I WAS AT HIS TODAY! The £10,000 was based on a 5.12kwh battery and upgraded I’m assuming inverter. He did say what else but at the point I left the room to quickly google a few things 😂

I didn’t think it was relevant earlier but it was actually booked for tomorrow and they knocked on the door today without any warning and asked if it was possible to do it today instead right there and then. 15 minutes in after he had actually just been around the battery he went and took a call in the garden that lasted around 10 mins. I don’t know if a battery could drain that fast but weird.

Over the next day or two, I’m going to get the full information about the company understand what this annual service is. I will get the battery turned on tonight as well. I’m a man on a mission now to understand and get rid of any unneeded services. He’s paying £24 a month insurance for solar panels for the last 6 years I’m probably going to learn soon that was fricken pointless as well! I understand why of course but I do wish I had an insight to some of this with him sooner.

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u/Brsuk1 — 2 months ago
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Helping Gramps with his solar. Was his service just a sales pitch for a new battery?

Hello everyone just after some advice. Granny and Gramps had solar for years, she died 2 years ago. Now I am managing it alongside Gramps but she really did know more than him about it.

Today my Grandfather had a service done and I was actually at his at the time and I was a bit uncomfortable. I felt like it wasn’t a service and more a sales pitch for a new battery system. Whatever way you look at it, he seemed very knowledgeable but there were some clear strong pushes to buy a new battery as this one isn’t charging. If I hadn’t been at his today, honestly he would have spent £10,000 minimum today.

My main question is there any reason why the battery would be turned off?
During the explanation they explained the battery was low, on the inverter he showed us the battery was giving nothing to the house. Then he got out his brochures and started showing batteries. Conveniently with deals ending tomorrow. I took photos of everything and I did give it to ChatGPT. At first it’s agreed the battery doesn’t seem to be working but when I sent it photos of the battery…… straight away it said the battery isn’t turned on so that’s why we were getting those readings on the inverter that’s why the battery is low. I looked at the battery and yes, the on off button the battery isn’t on. but could this maybe just be a mistake? He’s forgot to turn it back on after the service?

Feed into the Grid.
My Gramps invested in solar very early on and he’s on a very good old tariff. Selling at 0.74p he gets around £1600 annually.

Using from the Grid
He uses around 240kwh per month from the grid.

I think potentially the battery was turned off to show us some poor readings to buy a new battery and that I need to go back and turn the battery on and look again in a few days time at all the readings. OR an unfortunate but real possibility at some point the battery was turned off and we’ve not known for up to 2 years. Any advice here for a grandson trying to learn all of this and really am I safe to turn the battery on? I know that’s quite obvious to other people but is there a reason why the battery would be turned off?

Thanks

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u/Brsuk1 — 2 months ago