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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))

Trowbridge - a missed opportunity? Melksham - into the breach?

Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, and it a long and illustrious history, some magnificent Georgian buildings, the River Biss and a canal which brings tourists through the area already.

However, I've had to ask Lisa (who is a professional graphic artist) to 'Photoshop' my headline picture because - try as I might - I couldn't get a picture of the Biss Aquaduct without this ugly (IMHO) pipe in the foreground that was blocking the view.

I understand from a Wiltshire Time article that the developers of the Waterside Complex in Trowbridge have gone into administration, and there's considerable doubt now with regards to that "Transforming Trowbridge" project - something of a shame as there are parts of the town where such a transformation is desperately needed!

Interestingly, there *is* a market / place for an entertainment area / complex in West Wiltshire, and there was a suggestion made the other week that the area between Bowerhill and the A350 Semington bypass would be a sensible place for it - as indeed it would. Good access / the ability to provide plenty of parking (rather that being hemmed in within a town), and facilities to serve Chippenham and Trowbridge as well as Melksham - a catchment of around 80,000 people within a few miles. Ah - I'm probably doing no more that flying a kite here ...

Further pictures of Biss Aquaduct and Widbrook here
(written 2009-06-08, updated 2009-06-11)

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