(Peter Beale) wrote in message . co.uk...
In article ilgate.org, (Troy Steadman) wrote:

Robert I think you are suffering from a bit of newbie-itis, great idea
but the people you need to talk to don't use the internet

I think you're suffering from a bit of age-ism. I can assure you that
some of us who grew up with the London trams *do* use the internet.
We can even still walk up and down stairs and wash ourselves.

LOL. I have been toying with going through the questionnaire with my
Father-in-law. He has perfect recollection of the pre-war era and
remembers everything there is to know about trams.

The only trouble is, if you ask him about *any* subject which is of
interest to you he remembers cycling at Brooklands, a tomato he had in
1924 which had a bug in it, the roundabout where you used turn left at
London Aerodrome and there is a tank factory just over the road,
eyewitness accounts of the Hartenstein Hotel and looking down the
barrel of a Tiger Tank, every accurate detail you could possibly want
*except* anything about the subject you asked him about, and I'm not
sure Robert's form could do him justice.

Robert, if you are still around, there are dozens of memoires about
trams on the internet, Google the UK web using eg "london trams
recollection[s]" and you can fill out your own forms from the wealth
of local history.

http://www.virtualnorwood.com/localinfo/wnhistory.shtml

....for example.

You *should* point out that you are visually impaired, instead of
being lambasted for bad spelling you are to be congratulated on only a
few typos. I'm sure there must be a way to spell-check HTML, use
Search and Replace perhaps to Replace "*" with ""?

Finally:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,716,00.html

....York is 7th best Uni in the country accoring to the Times, and what
a lovely place to live, The Blue Bell in Fossgate (where until
recently they rang £3 into the till by pushing 5s 0d 12 times) is
where I'd be studying *my* thesis if I was in York right now.

Good luck with it.