Hi im new
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Topic: Hi im new
Posted By: xpat
Subject: Hi im new
Date Posted: 20 May 2005 at 10:03am
Hi Everyone, my name is shirley and i was born in chalfont as was my father before me, all of my three children were born in chalfont and lived there until we emigrated to australia in 1976.
I have been reading the messages on here for quite some time but have been a bit worried about joining as i am not very computer literate and was worried about doing something wrong, my son has just joined me up.
I know quite a lot about chalfont from about the late 1930's, what prompted me to join is that i have been following the discussion on the broadway cinema ( The Flea Pit ) i may be able to shed some light on some things about the cinema as i spent a lot of time there in my youth and in the hall next door taking dancing lessons during the war years.
hope to hear from someone soon.
Xpat
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Posted By: Malc London
Date Posted: 20 May 2005 at 10:26am
Hi Shirley and welcome to the forum. Don't worry about doing anything wrong, it's all fairly relaxed on here and new members are always made to feel at home.
There is a memories section and I am sure people wold love to hear about your memories of Chalfont if you care to jot them down.
You are not the only ex-pat either so I am sure you'll be receiving messages from our other Aussie members.
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Posted By: Emsy
Date Posted: 20 May 2005 at 10:28am
Hi Shirley, a big welcome to the forum!
Whereabout in Oz are you? Two lots of my friends have emigrated in the past year, one couple to Sydney, the other to Perth..I'm quite envious of them!
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Posted By: Eddie
Date Posted: 20 May 2005 at 10:29am
Shirley went to school with my Godmother! It truly is a small world
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Posted By: Henry
Date Posted: 20 May 2005 at 12:01pm
Welcome Shirley
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Posted By: muttley
Date Posted: 20 May 2005 at 12:08pm
Posted By: Malc London
Date Posted: 20 May 2005 at 12:54pm
We should really be saying "Hello Xpat"
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Posted By: jake
Date Posted: 20 May 2005 at 12:58pm
Posted By: Rachael
Date Posted: 20 May 2005 at 2:51pm
Welcome to the forum Shirley
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 21 May 2005 at 10:07am
Hi to everyone,
Thanks to everyone for the welcome, in response to Emsy, we live in a town called Busselton which is approx 250kms south of Perth in West Australia, We are 160 kms south of Mandurah which is where Tobic lives.
xpat
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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 21 May 2005 at 12:32pm
so you have never met Tobic then........
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Posted By: sharon
Date Posted: 21 May 2005 at 4:06pm
Hi Shirley!
Welcome to the forum - I have only been a member a few days longer than you and have been made very welcome and I am sure you will be too!!
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 22 May 2005 at 5:30am
Steve I have not met Tobic ,but i think i remember you and your mum and dad
xpat
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 22 May 2005 at 5:33am
thanks Sharon for your welcome
xpat &n bsp;
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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 22 May 2005 at 8:13am
xpat wrote:
Steve I have not met Tobic ,but i think i remember you and your mum and dad
xpat
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Hi xpat, there is a photo of my mum and dad in the memory lane section on the carnival posting. see if you can recognize them
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Posted By: tobic
Date Posted: 23 May 2005 at 12:11pm
Hi Expat, how are you, its good having another member living in this part of the world....I know Busselton pretty well, my inlaws used to live there, and a niece of mine has just bought a block in a big new developement down there...
You will enjoy the forum, its a bit of fun, I wouldnt miss logging on most evenings......Where in CSP did you used to live..???
All the best,
tony
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 8:42am
Hi Tobic Thanks for the welcome i was born in Grove Hill lived there till married then moved miles away to Lovel road, we came to Aussie in1976. Still think of Chalfont as home, Xpat
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 9:00am
Hi Steve I certainly recognized your Mum and Dad, and Mr Webb he had a shop on top of the common he lived up Lovel End. That was a great photo of early morning down the Market Place
Xpat
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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 11:00am
Thanks xpat, Mr Web had a grocery shop right at the top of gold hill, if there are any parts of chalfont you like to see again then let me know and will try and do a photograph for you.
Steve...
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 11:14am
Thanks Steve , I notice that Randalls are still operating, years ago their yard was in lovel road opposite Eleanor Road,
Xpat
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Posted By: Eddie
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 11:16am
Randalls are no more xpat . Different Company there now
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Posted By: DanW
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 11:19am
Don't have a photo of Tech Span (which has replaced Randalls)
Loads of photos here http://www.chalfontstpeter.com/cspmap/CSP2005.html - http://www.chalfontstpeter.com/cspmap/CSP2005.html
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Posted By: mushroom
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 11:24am
Hi xpat, are you on that photo of the street party from 1953 in lovel rd
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Posted By: mushroom
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 11:27am
Randalls site opposite Eleanor rd is now Cartwheel trailers (Len Savill)
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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 11:56am
Tech Span took over the Randells site in church lane, did the place up and run there for a few years but I think the place is empty now allthough the Tech Span sign is still up there is a also a for rent sign up there too.
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 12:16pm
Thanks Dan Iam delighted with the photos cant wait to show my family, I have some old photos which i found on Bucks County Council site, they brought back memories of how the village was which I had even forgotten. I was very suprised at some of the more modern shops near barclays bank, The hospital. the rounded part at the front was the operating Theatre many moons ago. Is that old Church Yard next Randalls garage still there. it used to have huge iron gates us kids used to be scared stiff of the place
Xpat
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 12:30pm
Mushroom, The photo in Lovel Road Ive seen a few familiar faces but I wasnt one of them Iwas still living in Grove hill at the time so probably wasnt invited
Xpat
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Posted By: mushroom
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 12:44pm
it's a small world isn't it Shirley as I have some internet friends from Busselton, they are expats too
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Posted By: jake
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 12:53pm
My Grandad use to own a yard up Eleanor rd where he use to hire tools out from and done verious other stuff , then he sold it when he lost his marbles for a cheap price, now there is 2 houses built on the plot, my mum still say's she will never drive down Eleanor rd.
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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 1:07pm
think my mum worked there in eleanor road back in the early sixtys, seem to remember some sort of wood work yard...
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Posted By: jake
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 1:19pm
you are right it was a wood yard, the bbc use to drop all there unwanted props to him, i use to have to help him clear it, and go down to the bottom off the road and we had a cuppa tea with a nice lady called Bet.
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 25 May 2005 at 7:20am
Jake Idont remember the wood yard but I think I know Bet First house on right, Steve there was a few small businesses next to the end shop one was upholster, another made novelties of the naughty kind, well it was in them days, a few local ladies worked there myself included late fifties early sixties Xpat
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 25 May 2005 at 7:30am
Mushroom are your friends in Bussleton from Chalfont,it certainly is a small world
Xpat
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Posted By: mushroom
Date Posted: 25 May 2005 at 9:36am
No Shirley, George and Barbara Spooner are not chalfontonians
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 25 May 2005 at 10:05am
Mushroom you are not going to believe this but Iam a voluteer at St Vincent De Paul charity shop and so is Barbara she works on a different day to me so we dont know one another all that well
Xpat
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Posted By: mushroom
Date Posted: 25 May 2005 at 10:58am
Shirley do you remember Doreen McTigue nee Pollmer, who lived opposite (she was about ten years older than you) when you lived in Grove Hill, (she says hi) she later moved to Lovel rd and lived either next to or opposite Steve and his family.
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Posted By: jake
Date Posted: 25 May 2005 at 1:11pm
xpat if it is the same Betty, she had a son called Paul, she did live on the right as you look up the road where Randles was.
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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 26 May 2005 at 1:04am
Doreen lived right on the cornner at the top of Lovel Rd, I cant remember who lived right opposite us, I know they moved out and another family moved in for a short time but next to them was were my dad was brought up when he was young, Sally Mc Carol lived there for many years after, they too have moved away now,
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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 26 May 2005 at 10:00am
jake wrote:
My Grandad use to own a yard up Eleanor rd where he use to hire tools out from and done verious other stuff , then he sold it when he lost his marbles for a cheap price, now there is 2 houses built on the plot, my mum still say's she will never drive down Eleanor rd. |
are they the two houses built on the bungalow site, built by DJ services ?
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Posted By: jake
Date Posted: 26 May 2005 at 6:15pm
i don't no but when i take my dog's for a walk i will let you no the 2 houses/ bungalow's are half way up on the left, and every body use to know him as Frank, he all so wore a cap to stop his head getting cut all the time.
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 27 May 2005 at 7:00am
I think I remember Doreen but not in Grove Hill, Did she have long auburn hair, I do remember Billy, and my children remember his children ,
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 27 May 2005 at 7:03am
same Bett Jake she had a son called Paul he was always sweet on my daughter
Xpat
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Posted By: mushroom
Date Posted: 27 May 2005 at 8:58am
Hi Shirley, I've only known Doreen about 5 years so I don't know what colour her hair was way back when but I will ask her when I take her shopping in an hours time, Billy lives in Denmark and Shiela is still in the village, the other two girls one's up north and and one in Aylesbury all of them have grown up families now.
Dave
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Posted By: jake
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 12:02am
Posted By: Helen
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 12:51am
hey ho jake whats that all about.....................
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Posted By: pierre
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 7:03pm
this is old chalfont history! everybody is related in some way!!!
In some strange perverse way I have been related to Steve...
scary!!
but we can laugh about it now... can't we Steve????
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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 8:53pm
we have not yet cut our thumbs and held them together in a silent pray as our blood become one but we have been cousins
Pierre and I knew each other way back in the seventys when pierrie had long hair (would love to find some of those photos), we have been to see the Quo and Slade together but Pierre never been to a floyd concert with me, still we have lots of tales we can tell our grandchildern.
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Posted By: pierre
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 9:25pm
I went from this...
http://img192.echo.cx/my.php?image=andyage17ed9dt.jpg">
TO THIS...
http://img265.echo.cx/my.php?image=me2at.gif">
the reason I've never been to a pink floyd concert was because I didn't think I could stay awake that long!!
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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 9:29pm
pierre wrote:
http://img265.echo.cx/my.php?image=me2at.gif -
the reason I've never been to a pink floyd concert was because I didn't think I could stay awake that long!!
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Thats ok Pierre I would have kept poking you everytime you nodded off
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Posted By: pierre
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 9:34pm
steady on mate, just because we were cousins, Chalfont cousins at that, what would our children/brothers say?
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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 9:39pm
I wont tell you you wont tell
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Posted By: pierre
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 9:41pm
keep it in the family, eh sis!
why haven't you laughed at my photos?
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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 10:05pm
Ive not laughed beacuse of this one of me taken around 1977
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Posted By: pierre
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 10:15pm
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted By: pierre
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 11:21pm
you do look a bit Floyd-ey/ Kenny Everett, that is how I remembered you! amazing to see you these days cos you look just like your dad!
whereas I look like Buster Bloodvessel!!!
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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 11:29pm
I thought I looked like a floyd nut but did not notice it at the time, my ears took some decibels in there teen years, now I'm just an old man nearly 50 but look 60 and feel 40....
ps: you look cool in your glasses bit like Mike Reed...
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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 11:43pm
Sorry Xpat for hijacking your thread
just got a bit carred away
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Posted By: Eddie
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 11:44pm
Saw Floyd at Brunel in Saucerful of secrets days . Went with Nick Bedell and Keef McLarty I think
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Posted By: pierre
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 11:49pm
Keef McLarty???? that's a make believe name...!
I saw Nick lowe and Dave Edmunds Rockpile at Brunel Uxbridge...
tonne of crap they were!
Ever seen Slade live Eddie?
thats a show!!
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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 11:52pm
that must be 1967 ?????
sid Barrett days
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Posted By: Eddie
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 11:55pm
yeah..I think ..all a bit vague that time
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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 29 May 2005 at 12:00am
this is a blurred pic of one of the Slade gigs Pierre and I went too
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Posted By: Eddie
Date Posted: 29 May 2005 at 1:15pm
seems it was 28th November 1969 (post Syd) , my 20th Birthday
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Posted By: The Messer
Date Posted: 31 May 2005 at 3:04pm
hi everyone im
new to this formum. my husband is totally addicted to this and i want
to see what this is all about. so basically what are you all talking
about, all the things which go on in chalfont. well im sure i will fit
in just fine as im such a gossip as im sure all of you are as you have
joined this forum. well i hope to read and contribute to some
interesting subjects.
The Messer
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Posted By: fontie
Date Posted: 31 May 2005 at 4:12pm
A big welcome. Look forward to your contributions. Any clue who your husband is?
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Posted By: Henry
Date Posted: 31 May 2005 at 4:45pm
Welcome to 'The Messer' does your husband know your post on here?
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Posted By: jake
Date Posted: 31 May 2005 at 5:01pm
welcome The Messer
Fontie i think her husband is called Jim, and she use to be called dot cotton as she say's she likes to gossip
once again Messer welcome.
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Posted By: fontie
Date Posted: 31 May 2005 at 6:21pm
The Messer wrote:
hi everyone im
new to this formum. my husband is totally addicted to this and i want
to see what this is all about. so basically what are you all talking
about, all the things which go on in chalfont. well im sure i will fit
in just fine as im such a gossip as im sure all of you are as you have
joined this forum. well i hope to read and contribute to some
interesting subjects.
The Messer
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I think she should have typed mother addicted.....
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 01 June 2005 at 6:10pm
Hi this is bombshell a friend of mine has suggested I join this site. I enjoy living in chalfont with my family and drinking pals! |
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Posted By: fontie
Date Posted: 01 June 2005 at 6:54pm
Hi Bombshell and welcome to this site. Looking forward to reading your postings and getting to know you better.
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 02 June 2005 at 4:36am
Its a pity every one with a camera couldnt be here at this moment we live about 300 metres from beach , theres a massive operation going on at the beach as about 120 whales have beached themselves, they are spread over afew killometres 40 are still off shore trying to get in, some as big as 4metres long some babies, they are looking for volunteers with wet suits what about it Tobic
WELCOME ALL NEWBIES
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Posted By: DanW
Date Posted: 03 June 2005 at 8:45am
Oooh...you live near Busselton:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4602429.stm - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4602429.stm
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Posted By: tobic
Date Posted: 03 June 2005 at 12:02pm
The busselton folks did a fantastic job, I wish I lived closer and heard of it sooner, I would certainly have been down there...........to have lost only one ,and that one was dying anyway, was a great achievement....Well done to all, you all deserve a medal in my book..........
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 04 June 2005 at 7:11am
There was about 1,500 volunteers,this included people giving out food and drinks, once the whales were in deeper water, the boats formed a U shape around them, what was very surprising to the rescuers in the boats was to see a pod of dolphins helping to shepherd the whales out sea
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Posted By: mickamm
Date Posted: 05 June 2005 at 10:55am
Hi Shirley,
Mum says how are you doing and that she owes you an e-mail. She will send one as soon as she can. Hope Alan and the "kids" are all well.Nice to find you on here. Take care.
Mick
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 06 June 2005 at 7:52am
Hi Mike How are you and all the clan?, all is well in Aussie land, lots of happy memories of our families growing up in Chalfont,tell your Mum to get e-mailng Shirley
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Posted By: xpat
Date Posted: 06 June 2005 at 8:44am
Dan, It seems that Busselton is now famous, making the news, on the B.B.C. Xpat
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