Well this is the end. 125 days ago I started posting possibly-interesting things from the Edge Hill archives and about events happening to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the college.

Today I’d like to look back at some of the things I’ve posted. First up a visualisation of what I’ve written. I’ve used Wordle to take the contents of the blog and turn it into a pretty word cloud:

Word Cloud for 125 by 125

When I started our I had no idea if anyone would be interested. I’ve been consistently amazed by people telling me things they’ve seen on the blog. In the last four months there have been over 10,000 visitors and some 23,213 page views!

Visitor Number

Let’s see what the top ten blog posts are:

  1. Tribute to Miss Jenkins
  2. Edge Hill… isn’t that in Birmingham?
  3. No Swimming
  4. Sculpture Found!
  5. Edge Hill Secondary Modern School for Boys
  6. A personal message from the Director #1
  7. Edge Hill, Groove Armada
  8. Edge Hill College Television
  9. How to beat the problem of traffic
  10. Frequent electric train MERSEYRAIL

But more importantly which are those poor neglected posts at the bottom of the table?

  1. Short Story Shortlist
  2. Manifesto for Change and Race Online 2012
  3. To Ireland; To Scotland; To London!
  4. The Centenary Celebrations
  5. Brush Script

I’ve been using Flickr to store most of the photographs published on the blog so feel free to flick them through – there’s quite a few that I’ve not made use of.

There are many people I should thank for their assistance in sourcing materials, sending in photos and even writing posts but I know I’ll forget people so thanks to you all!

It’s been really good fun writing for the last 125 days but far harder work then I imagined. I’ll be glad to be able to go away for the weekend without panicking on Friday afternoon that I’ve not scheduled posts; it will be nice not to have to carry my laptop around to write posts from coffee shops and I’ll be very happy not to suddenly realise at 10 minutes to midnight that I’ve not posted that day!

Having said all that it’s been great to find out about the history of Edge Hill College, digging around in the archives for interesting documents and photos. The anniversary year has a full programme of events and this blog has given me an excuse to go to them.

So this isn’t going to be the end but I will be slowing down. I plan to continue posting on an ad-hoc basis as and when I can. If you have anything that might be of interest please do send it in and I’m going to keep blagging invites to all the great events over the next seven months!

2 responses to “That’s all folks?”

  1. Thanks Mike, for the “possibly-interesting” blogs and your research!

    Best regards

    Jayne