Project Centre

For those that have been involved, think we are getting close to finding a suitable project centre. We broadened the scope of this when the old one, the coffin house was sold. The building is sadly missed, but with these funds and some I should have had 10 years ago, if there was a just God, I think we are in a very positive position.

It still needs all of the contacts of the members to be explored. If you know anybody in a council, water board, gas or electricity utility or church or anybody else that we can contact, please make it happen, get the right people talking. The struggle we have had is finding one that wont get residential planning permission.

Best wishes

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Slotting machine given new life

This was a recent machine we saw on the internet, a slotting machine, we bought one for the centre and sadly found out later that had missing and broken parts. With the joy of the internet we have now been able to set upon the repair of this fine machine, together with the pitler lathe and the schaublin milling machine.


Its so nice to work with machines made to last and easy to repair.

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Collaboration with chichester

Chance glance at people emptying store rooms in chichester and we are tomorrow taking the stuff out of the skip and into projects. We have been collaborating with a Southampton Charity, that re-uses, for children projects. We will also be developing a database for people to say what they are looking for their projects, so when we are given oppertunities we can activate 'the matrix of oppertunities'. Its important that all voluntary organisations declare what they are looking for. We started this with the swhag spitfire project and now wish to extend this pilot study to cover all the projects we are involved with.

We tried to collaborate with an internet en-physco-pedia, what a trial that was. You enter synchronome in it and you get GPO master clocks, not the famous gravity arm master clock. I dont often give up but the 'information police of this organisation' are as a blocked toilet. As discussed with group members, the stance, a scientific one, is to first define the base of the reference, i.e. individual/organisation and then to contribute information, which this particular internet based one is lacking for industrial heritage, electric, commercial and turret horology. They called this advertising and banned me. Saves a lot of effort, considering we are higher ranking them them. I dont like the 'class structure' that has started to creep into the internet, who dont reckognise out of ignorance. Would be interested in others comments on the matter and other 'open' projects.

Well grumble over, with 320 members and a further 80 members in the other groups, think we have done very well so far bringing like minded people together, what real soical networks are about and gives industrial heritage a future.



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