Hi. We are in Ottawa, Ontario Canada, and tracking the Spinney family that came from the UK to New England and then on to Nova Scotia. Is there a possibility that "Spinney Abbey" is family related or forest related. The thoughts of your readers would be appreciated.
FOUND YOUR ON LINE NEWSLETTER BROWSING THE WWW. YES.IT'S INTERESTING.DO YOU HAVE ANY HISTORICAL AND CURRENT NEWS ABOUT A VILLAGE CALLED LITTLE DOWNHAM,NEAR ELY? THAT WOULD BE OF INTEREST TO ME AS I ANCESTORS FROM THAT LOCATION.
Greetings from the USA.
Gerry Wiseman, Baltimore MD USA
I was fortunate to be stationed at RAF Alconbury 1958-1962. This area is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The people are the greatest. I almost married a young girl named Janice Carter from Huntstanton. She worked at Campbells soup factory in Kings Lynn. I wish I was financially able to visit your country again. God Save The Queen.
This is to confirm that a new Cyber cafe 'CyberDine' will open on Friday the 20th October 1995 in Harlow Essex. The grand opening will be from 3pm until 10pm. The Mayor of Harlow, Terry Kent, will do the honours and cut the ribbon at around 4.30pm.
This will be the first CyberDiner in Essex. We will have three machines accessing WEB pages, a Pentium 75 and two DX4's, all with 17" screens. We also have a colour inkjet printer, a HP laserjet B/W printer, and a colour flatbed A4 scanner.
We want to create a close community involvement, and are actively talking to a number of local charity groups and providing space for them on our server. We are also talking to a disabled recruitment centre 'ideas+' with a view to provide free training to disabled people to use the internet and to build HTML pages. This will give them important 'SuperHighway' skills to make them better able to find employment in this information centred future.
The Diner is a 50s/60s music Diner with a very large Juke Box and is open from 6am until 10pm seven days a week!. It can seat over a 100 customers and offers a very comprehensive menu - with our all day breakfasts at ?1.99 being the most popular.
Our domain name URL is "http://www.cyberdiner.co.uk" which will be available in a few days.
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Story from Harlow STAR paper, dated 5/10/95:
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High-tech diner offers bytes of new information
Harlow is to become home to a new hi-tech cafe where computer buffs will be
able to gain access to the information superhighway while having a "byte" to
eat.
CyberDine is the brainchild of Mark Newstead and will be based within
Gerry's Diner, opposite the town centre Post Office.
The main diner is currently in the process of being given a revamp and will
be opening in the evening as a milkbar to offer food and non-alcoholic
drinks.
But it will be in a separate part of the cafe that Mr Newstead will be
opening up his new Cyber Cafe, of which there are currently about 40 in the
UK to date.
"I will provide three computers for customers to use which will be connected
to the global internet," he said.
"This will allow them to access any information on any topic from anywhere
in the world, such as weather, news, sport, culture, art, photos, music and
local information."
Computer consultant Mr Newstead hopes the CyberDine will meet the growing
demand for access to the information superhighway, while the diner side of
the operation will provide somewhere for Harlow's youngsters to meet in the
town during the evening.
The new venue is due to officially launch within the next few days.
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Yours Sincerely
Mark Newstead, Director & owner
CyberDine
part of MANAI Restaurants Ltd (trading as Gerry's Diner)
15 Adams House,
Market Square,
Harlow,
Essex. CM20 1BD
Tel: 01279 423910 / 01473 647278
Fax: 01473 644607 email: newstem@btlip23.bt.co.uk
Tai Ikeshima
e-mail: ikeshima@sfc.keio.ac.jp
As my Scottish girlfriend tells me....pure dead Brilliant. BUT where's any of the content? It's pleasant that you add clever commentary, to empty pages....but you need some writers! And I'm not talking about your Sassonach types either... I'm a NYer.....I'll write for you, but please, ditch those longwinded dragonfly JPEGS.....really...
Your Wicken Fen website is most welcome. We need more sites like this, some of my friends still think the internet is a nerds playground. They have no idea what is coming . . .
From: d0fxsgb@bell-atl.com To: ecoln_editor Subject: Visit to Cambridge WEe recently spent 3 days in Cambridge, staying at the Travelodge in Lolworth. Attended a garden party at my old college, went to the Opening of the new Fallside Lab. etc. There is a lack of nice restaurants - the famous one opposite Trinity seems to be a disco - also Parking is a bugger- the pay and show areas are inadequately labelled - in civilized countries there has to be a sign every few yards telling you. What happend to swimming in the Cam? The tourist board now actively discourage it ... we can't all afforsd to stay at Hotels with swimming pools. Considering Cambridge area (or E. Cambridgeshire) as a nice place to retire, and have my 2 children go the the Univ. FREE. (Worth about $200,000 each to me). Would appreciate comments and suggestions from your readers. I have the Sunday time League table of all the Public and private secondary schools in Cambridgeshire (not v. encouraging I must say). [By the way Lord Archer's residence is inadequately signposted and there is a lack of organized tours thereto.] Best wishes, Alan Truelove, Annandale, Va. USA
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995
From: "Ian Kitching, System Manager" systimk@bridge.anglia.ac.uk
To: ecoln_editor
Subject: ECOLN comments
Firstly, having just discovered your pages about an hour ago, I really like
them!
You might like to include the following links:
The Boat Race
Cambridge Community Radio
Both can be found on one of my "pet project" pages:
The City of Cambridge
I'm trying to keep that as up-to-date as poss. and in some sense "definitive" (without undue duplication). I've already incorporated in various of my own pages several links to your excellent pages, such as:Pink Floyd in Cambridge
I particularly enjoy local "issues"/discussion pages, having discovered the "Flames" local pages yesterday.
Regards,
Ian
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 From: David Parry, david@londonci.demon.co.uk Organization: London Calling Internet To: ecoln_editor Subject: Hello Hi, I like the mix of content on your Web site. Keep growing... David Parry ----------------------------------------------------------------------- wordset : typeset by design e.g.http://www.demon.co.uk/london-calling
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Contact: Jason Rose, Spokesperson
No on Canyon Forest Village
(602) 264-2930 or 264-5944
savegc@indirect.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEVisit the "No on Canyon Forest Village Home Page: Our URL is http://www.well.com/user/savegc/
OPPONENTS GO "ON-LINE" TO FIGHT GRAND CANYON LAND EXCHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT
Group Believes New Internet Home Page Will Have National and International Appeal, Help Recruit Thousands More To Opposition Effort
(Grand Canyon) -- After having wage a spirited campaign in northern Arizona for much of the last year, opponents of the proposed "Canyon Forest Village" land exchange and development at Grand Canyon's South Rim have decided to launch their campaign into a new arena: cyberspace.
"While we will continue to oppose the Canyon Forest Village proposal at all levels of government and solicit support from every interested and affected community and organization in Arizona, we thought it was time to take our case to a much larger audience. An audience of 40 million on the Internet and World Wide Web clearly provides us that opportunity, " No on Canyon Forest Village Chairman Rick Lopez said.
"The Grand Canyon is one of the seven natural wonders of the world. It is now visited by nearly 5 million people from dozens of different countries. Via on-line services we believe these people will be shocked and outraged to learn, as will many others surfing the Internet, what the United States Forest Service is thinking about doing to the Grand Canyon," Lopez said.
"Since we started this effort almost one year ago, we've had people join our coalition from many of the 50 states and nearly a dozen countries. That outpouring of support convinced us that a massive commercial development at Grand Canyon, what some are calling an 'environmental Disneyland' is of critical concern not only to northern Arizona residents, but a much broader constituency as well," he said.
The United States Forest Service is currently evaluating a proposal to trade 1100 acres of privately owned land in the Kaibab Forest for 700 acres of pristine public land at the South Rim.
On those 700 acres developers from Iran, California, Scottsdale (AZ), Tucson (AZ) and Italy have proposed building "Canyon Forest Village." The development would include 5,000 hotel rooms, 500,000 square feet of new retail space, 2,600 homes and condominiums, contain 15,000 people and require daily water usage of 2 million gallons of water per day.
Opponents have criticized the proposal for the severe environmental and economic impact on Grand Canyon and northern Arizona. The "No on Canyon Forest Village" World Wide Web Home Page (http://www.well.com/user/savegc/) highlights many of these key areas of concern.
"Above all else we want the United States Forest Service to know that the Canyon Forest Village offer isn't just any land exchange proposal and that it's not business as usual. Canyon Forest Village is a radical development proposal, that if approved, will forever change the Grand Canyon. It's wrong and very disturbing that a proposal like this is still being considered," Lopez said.
"I'm confident that our appeal on the Internet will help convey the 'No on Canyon Forest Village' message very clearly," Lopez concluded.
"Thus far the U.S. Forest Service has chosen to ignore the good people of Winslow, Fredonia, Flagstaff, and other northern Arizona communities. Perhaps now hearing from people as far away as Holland and India will make a difference."
Three years ago this summer, my wife, friends and I visited Ely Cathedral and walked the pilgrim's labyrinth near the nave entrance. Now our church plans to construct a labyrinth just outside the nave in a new "gathering space." We have been unable to find a good picture or drawing of one at Ely, which is a candidate for ours. Would you be able to supply us with such a drawing or good photo (I took a photo but it is difficult to see the detail on it). We would appreciate your help in
this effort. An emailed gif would be just terrific. Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Ed Kelton
Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration (Anglican)
Dallas, Texas
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995
From: "East Cambridgeshire On-Line News editor.", ecoln_editor
Ed,
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995
From: "East Cambridgeshire On-Line News editor." , ecoln_editor
Hi Ed,
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995
To: ecoln_editor
From: Ed Kelton, ekelton@onramp.net
Dear Ben,
When we realized we my photo wasn't good enought, I used Netscape to do an InfoSeek on Ely Cathedral, where I found a reference to the East Cambridge On Line Newsletter [which I will now add to my bookmarks so I can watch your progress]. I looked through all your images in hopes there would be a good photo of the labyrinth. When there was not, I simply sent an email to you and, in what seems like no time, I had an email with a gif file that I unencoded to view in Photoshop. Voil=E1, I was able to print a clear copy of the labyrinth design as we continue our discussion of how to design a labyrinth for our church.
The design we end up will probably have to be more like the Ely labyrinth than the one at Chartres because Ely's is more angular than round. I will keep you informed of our progress. I truly appreciate your effort in this project! If I can be of further service to you, please let me know.
Also, let me invite you to view the Kelton Family Home Page at
http://rampages.onramp.net/~ekelton/index.html
which I put on the network -- I am heavily involved in family history, as you will see. There are some Scottish and English ties (see the map from the Origins or Index pages).
Best wishes,
Ed Kelton
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