TECHNICAL TESTING

for SEECAN Organisation

By Bob Stephen

SEECAN - Test of different methods of extracting forum messages from an existing site. The first one is Copy/Paste while the others use the csv export file and additional software.

First thing is to have a look at the following possible export methods and indicate your preference. The only affected sites are Laindon and Billericay. METHOD1 is quite labour intensive but can be done mechanically. The other methods require the use of the csv export file but are quick. METHOD4 and METHOD5 require a bit of fiddling about but the slowest, METHOD5, could be completed in 2 hours if Laindon and Billericay manipulations could be done together.

Making the messages available on a new Wordpress site can be dealt with elsewhere if there is sufficient interest: a couple of possibiities have been tested in outline and suggest this should not cause any major problems.

Things that come to mind are:

1. Putting existing forum messages on a WordPress historic forum page

2. Creating a new WordPress page as a forum page just for new messages

3. Combining 1 & 2 which means that old forum messages live in the upper part of the page and new forum messages live in the comments section at the bottom

4. And so on ... pdf attachments etc etc

Bob Stephen

Method1 - Copy/Paste

Method1 / Method2 / Method3 / Method4 / Method5

Please click across links to compare the options. My preference is METHOD5 but if you like the tabular approach then METHOD4 can probably be improved by lifting up the earlier column text to make it level with the message. METHOD1 is laborious and the remaining methods are unusable by a casual user.

The river Crouch at Hullbridge

By Sue Horncastle on 04/04/2011 at 12:17

The Romans built a causeway across the river at Hullbridge and you can still see the remain of the piles which would have had bundles of sticks piled between them to create a solid crossing. "Bridge" in this context means a crossing rather than a physical bridge. In the late 1960s it was still possible to cross the river on foot at low tide and my children did so on more than one occasion. My brother, as a young man, even drove his van across once. In the summer the river was often so low that my son was able to catch a flounder in his hands!

The ferry at that time was a dingy rowed over to the north bank by a man who lived in a houseboat moored just east of the Anchor pub. There was a footpath that ran all the way along the riverbank to Battlesbridge which we used to collect flour for bread making from the mill which existed then on the Rawreth side where the garden centre is now.

Hullbridge ferry, 1960's.

By Richard Dobson on 30/07/2011 at 10:17

I believe the ferry-man mentioned in the story about the river crouch, was Jock, who I remember fairly well from that time.....myself and friends also ran the ferry,at wekends, for a while.

High House Hawkwell

By Pam Gooch on 04/09/2011 at 11:14

Has anyone got a photo I could take a copy from, of High House that stood on the corner of Rectory Road and Ironwell Lane? It was demolished in 1960 and once belonged to my husbands Grandfather Jennings who used to run a Nursery on the site.

Re: High House Hawkwell

By Helen Barnard on 26/09/2011 at 16:58

Dear Pam,

I shall have a look amongst our photo collection and get back to you.

Best wishes,

Helen

Re: High House Hawkwell

By Helen on 27/03/2012 at 15:19 
pameladenise.gooch@mypostoffice.co.uk

Sorry for being so long in answering. Have you had any luck in finding a photo Helen? I am still trying to locate one.

Re: High House Hawkwell

By Helen Barnard on 28/03/2012 at 11:33

Sorry, Pam, nothing has come up yet. Helen

Re: High House Hawkwell

By Len Bickford on 12/10/2011 at 23:19

Hi Pam,

I don't have any photographs i'm afraid, but i did work for who must have been your husbands grandfather - Mr Jennings at the nursery when i was a teenager back in the early 1960's.I worked for him for nearly 2yrs.

Good luck in finding a photo though.

regards Len

Re: High House Hawkwell

By Len on 27/03/2012 at 15:23

Sorry it's taken so long in answering. I haven't had any luck with any photos, but it was great to hear that you knew Eric's grandfather.

Re: High House Hawkwell

By Patricia on 02/04/2014 at 20:17

The Jennings, Sonny and Florrie ran Vega Nurseries in the 60's Sonny Jennings father ran the nursery before him and lived in the house opposite the entrance to the nursery in Rectory Road, if that is the house that you are referring to it still stands there. However, it is numbered now although it may have had a name before numbering of properties in Rectory Road. if this is the house you mean I can photograph it for you.

Re: High House Hawkwell

By Pam on 01/05/2014 at 11:42

Thank you for offering to take a photo of the cottage which was owned by my Husbands Grandfather (Abraham Jenninings ) and inherited by his son. High House was a wooden building next to the cottage and was demolished in the 60's to make way for the present building. My husband did do a painting from memory so many thanks for everyones help.

METHOD2: unmodified csv table

Method1 / Method2 / Method3 / Method4 / Method5

METHOD2: unmodified csv table

Method1 / Method2 / Method3 / Method4 / Method5