Extra Visits

SUNDAY July 4th was spent outside Earls Court tube station in Warwick Road London; quite literally the next day the bus was gleaming in the sunshine opposite the Tynwald Court at St.Johns (ABOVE).

This followed an almost nonstop dash (at 45-mph) up the Motorway to make the 2.00am sailing from Heysham.

Around 1000 people passed through the Bus during the afternoon, including several members of the Legislature, and parents with eager children keen to point out which one was ‘their’ computer.

Manx Radio came on board and Dot Tilbury, Geoff Corkish and Geraldine Jameson carried out interviews with those on board including Manx Telecom Director Mr Walter Gilbey.

A Japanese TV crew from NTV came on board (LEFT) and interviewed Tynwald Day event organiser Capt. Andrew Douglas, and Department of Education ICT Adviser John Thornley.

Extra Visits

17/12/2001

AS WELL AS SCHOOLS, duirng its first year the bus visited a number of other events around the Island. LEFT is the computer bus at the 1999 Tynwald, having arrived on the Island direct from an overnight dash from Earls Court earlier that morning.

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COMPUTER Bus was guest of the United Nations Association - Isle of Man, Saturday November 14th, at the Post Graduate Medical Centre, Douglas.

The mobile computer classroom was acting as the Press Office for a gathering of students from seven schools and colleges on the Isle of Man gathered to discuss crucial issues affecting world order.

The product at the end of the day, was a two-page newspaper covering the event, “The United Nation”.
The students, as delegates to a mock United Nations General Assembly, represented the views of 16 different countries on such questions as the possible establishment of an International Criminal Court to try crimes against humanity.

STUDENTS form Castle Rushen High School, St.Ninian’s High School, Queen Elizabeth II High School, Ballakermeen High School, Ballacottier Primary School and Fairfield Junior School, all aboard the Manx Telecomputer Bus outside the STAKIS Hotel on Friday February 5th.

Together they demonstrated their skills on the computers to the specially invited guests prior to the keynote speeches by Professors Nigel Paine and Stephen Heppell (BELOW).

TYNWALD DAY 1999

NOBLES HOSPITAL

STAKIS HOTEL

IN July, the Computer Bus was invited to the Mount Murray Hotel, Santon, as part of a conference staged by Communicator Insurance, and featuring many guests from British Telecom. Delegates took a keen interest in the Computer Bus and its activities. The bus still looked splendid following its make-over received in connection with the trip to Earls Court. It is seen posed outside the Mount Murray in the glorious Manx sunshine.

On a rather wetter, windier day last October, another set of delegates, this time international telecommunications students from Bailbrook College (right), on the Island as guests of ManxTelecom, visited the bus during its visit
to Kewaigue School.

MOUNT MURRAY HOTEL