Welcome to dirtiboy.com [aka - romford-hornchurch.co.uk] ; the site name was inspired by Scott Mills & Chris Moyles at Radio One, and all their mates too.
I Know this is a bit strange, but I have decided to keep the dirtiboy.com site running in its entirety, and at the same time create a site about Hornchurch & Romford & surrounding areas. Romford is already fairly well covered by the Romford - Now & Then site - this site adds additional info.
As regards Hornchurch, I have lived in the area for the past 25 years, and double that if you include Romford, so I will try and add some truly personal recollections of the area, as well as lots of facts, too.
Bear with me, whilst I get this site running - BUT if you want to contribute absolutely anything, please send me a mail.
Here's a Comic Relief update - a day in Kamwacha
Another inspiration, if you can call it that, is the Make Poverty History campaign. In a simple statement - wait a while and listen to Bono, sharing what changed his life., and probably yours too.
$1 is the daily income of half of Africa's people
This list is not exhaustive, but I have researched many resources that are available, many in National statistic offices, much in local media, and to add some sort of realism to facts and figures. I include source material for you to confirm these results.
Infant mortality rates for children under five(Unicef statistics)
Undernourishment as a percentage of a population(UN statistics)
Slum population as percentage of Urban Secure tenure populus
The Borgen Project - bringing global issues to the masses
An non-excellent tutorial in getting your site listed in News engines using an RSS feed. This includes a tutorial about using mysql, php, java, Apache, phpMyAdmin and lots of othe useful tools - I am still working on this - but view the current status.
Google sitemaps - how to do this - quite easy, once you grasp the technology
Some Older London Images - and visit the latest site - 'When in London'
'This is not an issue of politics, it's an issue of morality' - Sir Bob Geldof
Family History - what you have, and those in poverty may never enjoy
A history of the Essex Public house
A history and search of the London Public House
Adding your web pages to the search engines - getting your site listed in the top search engines