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1) Most weeks I receive e-mails to asking for information about Gosport or the past, or how to find records of the past. I understand that some do receive
replies. This week one person asked me to remove the request, as they had received a number of replies, including a very full description of where a road could be found. I had never heard of the person
who provided the information, so it seems that some are happier contacting people direct, rather than via me or the web site. If you do have a request for information, you can have any replies via me or
your may receive more, if you give an e-mail address to be added to your request.
2) I have received a few e-mails from those asking to add Gosport businesses or organisations to Gosport.info,if
you are looking for a Gosport businesses or organisation, they are being added all the time, so please check the site. If you have a business or organisation with links to Gosport, please let me know,
someone may find it , and it cost nothing.
3) I have not received the number of What's Ons that I once did, so if you see someone looking at posters in Gosport and writing in a note book or
perhaps talking to a dictating machine, it may be me. If you have events , please send an e-mail , phone or fax, or send or leave your event poster to me or a contact point, to save me standing in front
of posters and talking to himself (in to a tape recorder). I have added to the What's on section over the last couple of weeks.
4) I have reorganised the Requests page, removing items that
have been sorted out and tidying up the pages, so you may not find items on the pages that they were on. The number of pages with requests on have also been reduced.
5) I have had a Skype account
for a number of years and MSN Messenger one for even longer, I have not publicised it as I did not know how many had it. I have now heard that someone who I know has Skype and a number with MSN, so I am
going to add both to my contact details, for voice contact, Skype Name; ianrjeffery MSN Messenger:ianrjeffery@hotmail.com .
6) You may have noticed the advert/ link for 'Mudlark' by John Sedden. This book was written by someone born in Portsmouth, but has spent many years living in Gosport, he has written a number of historical books about, Gosport, Portsmouth and the War. The book is a novel aimed at teenagers, I read it on a sunny Sunday afternoon in my sisters and brother-in-laws garden. I started then reached chapter 10, I had to keep going, to the end. I remember the Mudlarks from going over to Portsmouth when I was about 6 years old, well I know the new pontoon was being built by the railway line and The Hard Interchange. The book goes through life during the first world war, the way people lived and some of the things they did, including to others, something to learn for today. Finishing with what some people had to do, for everybody else, even if they did not intend to become involved. I found the end reminded me of what happened to people of a young age, perhaps to a teenager, they would see what could have happened to them at their age in the past. The book is £4.99 and is available from Amazon, I admit that if you buy it via the link on Gosport.info I would receive about 25p, though I would use any income for the site, to avoid this, you can buy it from another place or Amazon without click the link on the site.
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