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Hon. Editor - Bill Thackray, formerly of Methley, went to Castleford Grammar School from Mickletown School and achieved, along with modest O level passes a Grade 1 in handball fives. An extensive career
in administration with British Coal included 12 years at Savile Colliery. Family and leisure pursuits helped maintain a continuous association with this village. The seed to commence the web site was
germinated following a request by Alma Townend in the Livewire Magazine for contributions. Collaboration with Mr Allan Raphael, a later work colleague at NatWest was absolutely vital to create these squares,
words, pictures and movements that you see. The layout was conceived in the early months of 2000 and the site went out on the 1st of July that year.
In the developing years of the web site I have avoided reference to numbers of visitors and ‘hits’ to the site, relying on responses and requests for information through the feedback page to interpret the
popularity of the site. A review of recent web statistics since January 1st 2008 show that methley-village.com is attracting on average 75 visitors per day. (should the visitor connect more than once in a
day it is only counted once). A total of 8350 visits have been made from January 1st to April 24th and a total of 44,000 pages have been viewed in that time Not surprisingly many of these link in
through the main search engines which serves to indicate new viewers continue to find the site.
The statistics also reveal that along with expected visitors from commonwealth favourites, there were surprisingly individual viewers from other countries including Sweden, Korea, Finland, Holland, Turkey, Romania, Uruguay, Japan, Russia, Poland, Austria, Czech Republic,Belgium, Switzerland, Norway, France, Spain, India, Malaysia, Italy, Iceland and Portugal and now Hungary.
I don’t know if any of these are Anglos living abroad but they are most certainly welcome. I have in the past invited contributions from surfers near and FAR which I now repeat.
Search it, navigate using the back arrow now.
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