beautiful clevedon: July 2006

Title graphics

I am back and will update the website - have had some e-mails come in, but first I thought as an experiment I would see if I can fit this nice illuminated letter into the title:

Break

Hi everyone - this site is going to be static for a week - as I (the website administrator) am away - however when I get back there will be lots more useful information posted.
In the meantime, don't let this stop you from sending in information, comments, adding events etc. I'll put these all up when I get back.
A plea! How's about some restaurant reviews please? I've already mentioned the Bengal Spice - hows about a review 0f it from some of its customers?
Likewise Junior Poon - excellent in my view - but you may disagree.....
Finally I can't resist a plug for the fish and chip shop next to Kwik Save run by Thomas - yes, I know its only fish and chips, but his are just incredible!

Democracy in action #2 - Tourism

The poll has been changed on this site, to address the question of Clevedons relationship with tourism.
Clive Bishop was kind enough to contact the site and to ask:
Do Clevedon residents want Tourism to the town to be developed ?
Would they like to have regular tourism events through out the year ?
Have your say by voting on the poll, but as well as the quantative feedback that this provides, why not use the comments to add qualatative feedback?

E-bay

Yet another site tweak - if you look on the menu on the right hand side of the sight you can now find a section that says "Clevedon items on E-bay" followed by Show items. If you click on this link it will give you a list of the top ten (in terms of being closest to closing) of Clevedon related materials for sale on E-bay.
All good fun.

Panorama

Just found a brilliant panorama of the pier at the BBC website here - really wierd, you can zoom and move around in the picture - just like being there!!

Classified Ads

New toy #2, I've now added the ability for you guys to post or read classified ads - hope this is useful. Please bear in mind the ethos of this site, whilst it is for the community - its got to be community friendly - I will delete anything offensive that gets posted there.

Events Calendar

Another toy for the site, I've added an events calendar here which anyone can put entries on - so if you know of an event - then post it up!

Democracy in action

Well, one of the good things about being online is interactivity and as this site is about the community of Clevedon, lets put it to some use. I've upgraded the site again to allow voting - so if there is any particular issue that you want Clevedon residents to vote on, drop me a line as usual.
I'll kick things off by asking your opinion on the proposed expansion of Tescos. Is this a dire threat to local business and a pain from all the extra traffic coming in to use the store or a good opportunity for employment and a boost to the local economy?
What your opinion?
Link to the poll

Clevedon - gem of sunny Somerset

Got sent a very nice GWR (Great Western Railway) poster advertising trips to Clevedon and have uploaded it to the photo gallery - quick preview along side of here.
Note that Marine Lake is in full use, nice to see that its being renevated - maybe it'll go back to looking like this again.
Really like the style of this - have been told its 1930s. If anyone else has anymore of these, please send them along.

Site Update

This is a very young site, however my eventual hope is that people will start using it as a way of adding their own thoughts, feelings, topics, articles, discussions and photos to the site.

The aim is to make a virtual Clevedon community on the web.

To this end, I have added some tools to the site to make this easier.

We now have:

A photo gallery here
A tell a friend facility here

With the photo gallery I'm afraid I've turned off the option to let visitors post photos directly, I'm afraid you will have to submit them to me, the same way any content is submitted - by e-mailing it to emphyrio@hotmail.co.uk - the reason for this, as stated elsewhere, is that I want to be able to ensure we don't get malicious content on the site.

Re the tell a friend facility - this allows you to e-mail up to five people with details of this site. Please do use it to spread the word if you think this site is useful. Of course once it has more content, it will have more to recommend it!

The next tool I'm planning for this site is a free classified ads facility - to let Clevedon residents sell stuff in a similar way to local paper ads. I'll post when this facility is available.

In terms of content, everything so far has been posted by me (the website administrator), however this rather defies the point of the site, so I will be pushing the publicity in the coming weeks to ask people to contribute articles. I have already e-mailed the Curzon cinema (one of Clevedon's real treasures!) asking if they would care to pen an article, so I live in hope. But while waiting for this to arrive, I would invite you the reader to step forward and be the first person to get your article / photo / story / recommendation on the site!

Talking of recommendations - I had a curry from the Bengal Spice in Queen's Road this week, which was absolutely delicious - if you haven't had a curry from there yet then you really are missing out.

Eating and drinking in Clevedon

The online pub guide Beer in the Evening lists and rates 10 Clevedon pubs here.
The pubs listed are:

The Clock Tower
The Crab Apple
The Drum and Monkey
The Little Harp
The Moon and Sixpence
The Old Inn
The Regent
The Star Inn
The Wagon and Horses
Ye Olde Bristol

Why not visit Clevedon's listing at Beer In The Evening, read the reviews and post your comments on Clevedon's pubs? Your views are very much appreciated!