HELIX

Hadleigh Essex Local Information eXchange

ABOUT THIS SITE

Last updated Thu 17 Apr 2025

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The HELIX website was launched in March 2006 and until October 2011 was hosted on a free platform known as Beehive, provided by the owners of the Echo newspaper. At that time the site was more than just a ‘what’s on’ site. It covered local news, planning applications, neighbourhood meetings (no longer held), information about churches and other organisations and more. If you’d like to see what the site looked like in October 2011, when the Beehive platform was withdrawn, then click here.

After the Beehive platform was withdrawn, the site was temporarily hosted for eighteen months on the Dropbox cloud platform. From April 2013 it has been hosted in the conventional way and since February 2025 has been hosted by Freethought, whose pricing is very reasonable.

If I had more time, I’d try and build an updated version of the old site using more up-to-date technology but involvement in other areas, particularly the Hadleigh & Thundersley Community Archive, currently precludes that happening.

Malcolm Brown
HELIX website administrator

 

 

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