Salisbury A S?

Does anyone know whether there is a genuine Salisbury Astronomical Society?
Their e-mail addresses all bounce from all reference sites (including the FAS
and the BBC) and the FAS cannot contact them either. Have they disbanded or
merely not bothered to update their information......?

Lawrence

On Oct 16, 5:09 pm, home@away wrote:
Does anyone know whether there is a genuine Salisbury Astronomical Society?
Their e-mail addresses all bounce from all reference sites (including the FAS
and the BBC) and the FAS cannot contact them either. Have they disbanded or
merely not bothered to update their information......?

Lawrence

I can't answer your question directly, but according to the BBC site
they meet at Glebe Hall:

http://www.early-oak.fsnet.co.uk/Winterbourne/glebe.htm

You could try ringing the booking secretary for the hall and ask if
they still meet there.

It isn't uncommon for AstroSocs to have orphanned websites with wildly
out of date info on. Most of the ones I have belonged to seem to have
(at least) one antique site still resolutely detailing events 3 or 4
years ago.

Regards,
Martin Brown

Hello Martin

How curious that no-one from Salisbury has taken the trouble to respond to this
post! I think that tells me enough about them.......


L

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:22:59 -0700, Martin Brown
wrote:

On Oct 16, 5:09 pm, home@away wrote:
Does anyone know whether there is a genuine Salisbury Astronomical Society?
Their e-mail addresses all bounce from all reference sites (including the FAS
and the BBC) and the FAS cannot contact them either. Have they disbanded or
merely not bothered to update their information......?

Lawrence

I can't answer your question directly, but according to the BBC site
they meet at Glebe Hall:

http://www.early-oak.fsnet.co.uk/Winterbourne/glebe.htm

You could try ringing the booking secretary for the hall and ask if
they still meet there.

It isn't uncommon for AstroSocs to have orphanned websites with wildly
out of date info on. Most of the ones I have belonged to seem to have
(at least) one antique site still resolutely detailing events 3 or 4
years ago.

Regards,
Martin Brown

On Oct 17, 9:07 am, home@away wrote:
Hello Martin

How curious that no-one from Salisbury has taken the trouble to respond to this
post! I think that tells me enough about them.......

You shouldn't be so quick to judgement. Reading Usenet these days is
very much a minority sport.
I would be surprised if *any* members of my old home town AstroSoc are
reading this message now.
(a decade ago there would have been 2 or 3 regular posters here)

If they are still lurking here - hello to all at Salford Astronomical
Society !
(their 40th Anniversary was this year - alas I didn't get back to it)

Regards,
Martin Brown

Maybe you can answer my query anyway? Its a simple one. We may be moving to
the region. Is it OK for astronomy or do the army bathe the night sky in
lights?

L


On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:00:20 -0700, Martin Brown
wrote:

On Oct 17, 9:07 am, home@away wrote:
Hello Martin

How curious that no-one from Salisbury has taken the trouble to respond to this
post! I think that tells me enough about them.......

You shouldn't be so quick to judgement. Reading Usenet these days is
very much a minority sport.
I would be surprised if *any* members of my old home town AstroSoc are
reading this message now.
(a decade ago there would have been 2 or 3 regular posters here)

If they are still lurking here - hello to all at Salford Astronomical
Society !
(their 40th Anniversary was this year - alas I didn't get back to it)

Regards,
Martin Brown