Old Piles of the South West

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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 Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own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))

Old Piles of the South West

There's a great deal of learned speculation about the construction and reasons behind Silbury Hill (See Avebury) and a lot of digging has taken place over the years to research the issue - so much so that old shafts have collapsed in recent years leading to extensive remedial works.

Yet Silbury Hill is not the only man made mound of this shape - here's another one I spotted near Midsomer Norton (See Radstock) on my way back from dropping off a delegate at Bristol Airport on Friday afternoon.

This mound is a slag heap from the Somerset Coal Field, which was an unexpected industrial outpost set in the heart of the West's countryside, and which only ceased coal production in relatively recent years. Indeed, much of the traffic on the Kennet and Avon Canal originated from the Somerset Coal Canal ... and for a time passed up the Wilts and Berks through Melksham

Perhaps Silbury Hill is just a pre-historic slag heap?
(written 2008-10-18, updated 2008-11-02)

Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles

M208 - Well House Manor - Mendip - North Somerset
  [1118] Origin of Jack and Jill and little Jack Horner - (2007-03-25)
  [1218] Sunday afternoon - (2007-06-05)
  [1291] Day trip to Weymouth - (2007-08-05)
  [1609] Chew Valley Lakes - (2008-04-13)
  [2664] Oliver Cromwell at Bristol Temple Meads - (2010-03-06)
  [3884] Pictures - across the park, French Weir and River Tone, Taunton - (2012-10-07)

M205 - Well House Manor - Kennet District
  [670] Architectural Heritage - Devizes - (2006-04-04)
  [809] What to do during a Linux build - (2006-07-20)
  [824] Pictures of Avebury, Longleat and Dyrham - (2006-08-06)
  [825] Pictures of the Vale of Pewsey - (2006-08-07)
  [854] Morgans Hill - (2006-09-03)
  [861] Ballooning from Devizes - (2006-09-10)
  [865] Catching the slope - (2006-09-14)
  [935] Autumn leaves in Wiltshire - Potterne - (2006-11-21)
  [1070] Java Deployment course - lunch break - (2007-02-07)
  [1071] Making a mountain out of a molehill - (2007-02-08)
  [1346] Evening, Devizes and Sells Green - (2007-09-11)
  [1635] Spring in Devizes - (2008-05-08)
  [1640] Walking on The Wiltshire Downs - (2008-05-12)
  [1830] Caen Hill and Olivers Castle - (2008-10-10)
  [1842] Lua Course, and the Wiltshire Countryside too - (2008-10-16)
  [1916] Why I remember East Grafton - (2008-12-02)
  [2146] An evening excursion to Devizes and Avebury - (2009-04-30)
  [2362] Thornham Farm Shop, Seend Cleeve, nr Melksham - (2009-08-15)
  [2443] Contrasting Cambridge, Bristol and Wiltshire - (2009-10-08)
  [2687] A lovely spring afternoon - (2010-03-21)
  [2830] Poulshot Village Fete - (2010-06-27)
  [3284] What to do in the evening during a Tcl course - (2011-05-10)
  [3376] Kennet and Avon - Walk from Bedwyn to Pewsey. TransWilts day out. - (2011-08-01)
  [3382] What is the picture? - (2011-08-08)
  [3482] Taking a boat down Caen Hill Locks - (2011-10-15)
  [4233] Open for the new year - Imber - (2013-12-31)
  [4653] Coats of arms - towns and authorities in Wiltshire - (2016-02-21)

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