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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 Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own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))
Why are we no. 404

It's always struck me as very odd that we're in a street that starts at number 394 and goes up from there - we're at 404 and it goes up to about 412 or so. There's lots of letters in there too - 398A, 404A, 404B. I'm quite used to USA addresses including block numbers (thus 7311 for relatives of mine who live on a 6-house street) - but in the UK?

Over the Weekend, I think I may have found a solution. Lisa and I walked across the fields to another quarter of the town and there, on Snarleton Lane, we found a similar scheme ... house numbers in the 300s on a quiet lane, with lots of "A" and "B" fillins on what looked like the newer properies.

I conjecture that the houses in the parish of "Melksham Without" were numbered in a single sequence without street names some 100 to 150 years ago, and that this numbering has stuck to this day, but with the addition of street names.

Other evidence for my theory? I know of at least one local village where, to this day, most of the houses don't have street names. And perhaps I should go out next weekend and test my theory further be looking for houses in the 150 - 250 number range on the North side of Melksham - perhaps on the back lane from Melksham Forest to Lacock.
(written 2005-04-25, updated 2006-06-05)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
G100 - Well House Consultants - Introduction to Melksham
  [269] Free parking for short errands in Melksham - (2005-04-05)
  [322] More maps - (2005-05-23)
  [517] An occasional chance, and reducing data to manageable levels - (2005-12-04)
  [676] Melksham, Wiltshire - (2006-04-08)
  [847] Image maps for navigation - a straightforward example - (2006-08-28)
  [866] A lazy programmer is a good programmer - (2006-09-15)
  [1341] Moving to Melksham? Househunting map. - (2007-09-09)
  [1725] A future vision for Melksham - (2008-07-27)
  [2329] Great to be in Melksham - (2009-08-08)
  [2350] Ten years in Melksham - looking forward to ten more. - (2009-08-11)
  [2704] A walk within without - Melksham Without - (2010-04-02)
  [3232] Around and about Melksham in more pictures - (2011-04-05)
  [3344] Repost - some useful pages on our site - (2011-07-04)
  [3696] Melksham government and business organisations - (2012-04-14)
  [3932] River nearly bursting its banks in Melksham - (2012-11-23)


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