l Contents
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l Links and resources - menu of the various
links pages
l Songs, writing - my own, and other
people's
l Hiring Fair - looking
for a local band or musician?
l What's on - folk clubs, sessions,
festivals, and other things
Harlow is on the border between
Hertfordshire and Essex (on the Essex side, but the links tend to
be more with Herts - and of course London), half way between
London and Cambridge, and just outside the M25. It was the first
New Town to get started, (if you don't count Garden Cities), and
it's just had its 50th birthday. (Song for Harlow) Here
are some websites to tell you more:
- Harlow
Council - for finding out about
stuff the Council wants to tell you it's doing, fair
enough. Lots of press releases. But if you want to find
out other stuff about what is happening in Harlow, not so
good. And it doesn't even seem to have a calendar of
council and committee meetings, or contact details for
councillors. Too bad Harlow Council
can't give it the minimal resources that it would need in
order to be a first rate service to us all - instead of
going around plotting to dig up the Town Park, and
getting rid of the Cycle Museum. Not to mention cutting
out all the funstuff like the concerts in the park that
we used to have - for
example...) For a council
site that is more user friendly (without being needlessly
flashy) try that of Barnet
which I came across by chance. It won a prize, but that
must have been for design (which is good) rather than
content...
- For stuff about Harlow's 50th Anniversary, click here
- or see if Virgin still have a copy of the CD. It has
some interesting stuff (but I don't much reckon the music
- I didn't expect folk maybe, but we could have had the
Neurotics).
- Harlow
TUC Some useful links (including one
to me even before I put one in for them - that's the
spirit!)
- Essex
County Council - tells you stuff
about what the County Council does itself, and now there
is a section called LIFE
which provides useful contact
details for all kinds of thiong (such as the Moving
Finger) which other people are doing.
- Harlow Radio (Ten-17
they call it) At last I've found
their website. So far I've never heard anything on it I
liked much. That may be unfair, since round my end of
Harlow, down near the river, we can't pick up FM at all
well, and when I'm driving I tend to listen to cassettes.
And they don't put the station out on the Internet yet,
unlike thousands of other local stations all over the
place.
- Harlow
Star - dig
around in here and there's some good
stuff about Harlow, and links about local facilities that
are much more useful than the Harlow Council site
currently provides.
- Harlow
Citizen - this gives you a link to
lots of local papers including the Citizen. I didn't find
it as useful as the one above though. If you want to find
out what the lead story on lots of local papers in South
England is, this allows you to do so. But it seems to
think that Hertfordshire is a region in South London with
places like Croydon, which makes it a bit unhandy for
around here.
- Harlow
Ballet
- dates, pictures,
newsletter, history of one of the best things about
Harlow. This is one of a number of websites hosted by Virtual
Valley Graphics, a Harlow based
operation, with some brilliant graphics by a Harlow web
designer called Simon Brewer.
- Knowhere
(one of hundreds of knowhere guides, of questionable
accuracy, but always open to amendment. Nothing
to do with anything else on this site with a similar
name)
- Brockles
Mead Residents Association Which
seems to be the first local residents group in Harlow to
set up a website. Too bad I didn't come across them
before their annual fun day on July 5th.
There are probably lots of other Harlow Websites. I'll add
them as I find them, if I like them.
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