February 23, 2013
Marconi New Street building receives a face-lift Peter Turrall MVA Chairman Bellway Homes, whose headquarters are in Rainsford Road Chelmsford, has purchased the Marconi site in New Street. Following two exhibitions at the Anglia Ruskin University where they showed plans of the possible redevelopment of the site, they have now submitted plans to the Chelmsford [...]
February 17, 2012
Please click on the blue heading above to gain access to the full Newsletter Why didn’t I start sooner? The eternal cry of those who work to deadlines, and who doesn’t? Material starts coming in for next year’s edition even before the current year’s has hit the doormat, but by then I’ve moved on to [...]
February 28, 2011
Please click on the blue heading above to gain access to the full Newsletter Should you go back – a further reflection Pursuing the theme of last year’s editorial, I had to drive from Newbury to Bristol Airport last July to pick up family members returning from SW France. A beautiful sunny afternoon with plenty of time [...]
February 27, 2010
Number 12, January 2010 Some of the articles included in the annual paper copy of the Newsletter have appeared on this site over the past year. They are repeated here for completeness and so that the two versions of the newsletter are similar. Webmaster. Should I go back? Another fourteen page edition this year. At [...]
February 25, 2009
Contributions still roll in, but ladies, where are you? As you will see, there was more than enough material for this year’s edition, since we’ve had to run to fourteen pages, which is very good news, but where are the contributions from you ladies? Only three in the 2006 edition, my first, and none [...]
February 22, 2008
Number 10, January 2008 Lulled into a false sense of security. The 2006 edition really wasn’t too much of a problem to deal with, given my background in sharing with my wife the production of our village newsletter. The main difficulties came with setting up my own template, and sifting through the pile of articles [...]
February 21, 2007
Number 9 January 2007 Ordeal by Readership I survived! At the 2006 Reunion, Raymond Rowe said very kind things about my first effort with the newsletter, and a number of you have expressed similar sentiments subsequently. Thank you, I must have done something right. I do have a little worry at the moment however. Where [...]
February 23, 2006
Number 8 January 2006 From the retiring editor I am delighted that Ken Earney, a fellow Marconi Veteran, has agreed to take over the editorship of our Marconi Veterans’ Newsletter with immediate effect. No doubt Ken will be introducing his own personal style, as he and his wife have had a lot of experience in [...]
February 4, 2005
Number 7 January 2005 MARCONI VETERANS NEWSLETTER SAVED AT LAST I am sure you remember last years headline in Newsletter number six. “Death of Marconi Veterans Newsletter”. Well you saved it, at least for this issue and the next by sending in stories and other information. Many thanks to all of you who have contributed. [...]
February 5, 2004
Number 6 January 2004 DEATH OF MARCONI VETERANS NEWSLETTER Yes I am afraid the above headline is true, unless within the next six months you Marconi Veterans (there are over 1,400 of you still active) sit down for a few minutes and drop a line to our Editor. I need inputs to keep this Newsletter [...]