QUANTA Subgroups
The
following subgroups are active across the UK. If you are interested in
forming a subgroup, or would like your group adding to this list,
please contact the editor
or webmaster.
You can download a list of subgroups in PDF format,
or browse the details of each subgroup below :
- THE WEST MIDLANDS QL USER GROUP
- QUANTA DORSET SUBGROUP
- LONDON QL AND QUANTA GROUP
- NEMQLUG - THE NORTH EAST MANCHESTER QL USER GROUP
- SCOTTISH QL USERS GROUP
- SOLENT SUBGROUP
- SURREY QUANTA SUBGROUP (SQSG)
- SUSSEX QL USER GROUP
THE WEST MIDLANDS QL USER GROUP
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Background : This long-running
group has moved back to its previous venue, the Queens Head pub in the
City Centre. Meetings remain open to Quanta members and non-members
alike. The Queens Head is in Steelhouse Lane , Central Birmingham ,
four minutes walk from Snow Hill main-line railway station and has
ample street parking nearby.
After your first meeting you're expected to pay £1 each time
towards the organisation and monthly newsletter costs - except once a
year when the group pays all those who attend a pound instead ;-)
We provide food twice a year for those who attend the AGM and the
group's birthday party) and at meetings we discuss all sorts of things,
QL-related and otherwise, usually from about 8:20pm onwards till 10:30
or later.
The group owns QL hardware, a disk library and subscribes to relevant
magazines.
People can join the mailing list for £3.50 per year, even if
they can't attend regularly.
Meetings : Meetings are usually
on the first and third Monday of each month (but not on bank holidays
unless the previous one was cancelled for that reason).
Contact : The contact number remains Mike
Bedford White's, on 0121 708 2560, anytime after 11am.
QUANTA DORSET SUBGROUP [up]
Background : We are the Quanta Dorset
subgroup. All are welcome.
Venue : Meetings are held at the Merley
Community Centre in Harrier Drive, Merley just south of Wimborne
Minster.
Meetings : Normally on the second Sunday
of each month .
Contact : John Meadows Tel: 01202 576189,
or John Mason, 01425 275894.
LONDON QL AND QUANTA GROUP
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Background : Members currently
each pay a subscription of £30 a year towards the cost of the
hire of the hall, and a small additional charge is made for tea/coffee
- biscuits are then provided free.
Please bring along your QL equipment if possible, all types welcome,
e.g., PC portable running emulators. The Group has some systems stored
at the venue for its use. In addition there are lots of donated second
user equipment, books, magazines, etc, available for purchase.
Website :
London QL and Quanta Group website
Venue :
Meetings are held in the School Room, which is the
basement of the Borough Welsh Congregational Chapel, 90 Southwark
Bridge Road, London SE1.
This is almost opposite the junction with Marshalsea Road, at the other
end of which, 5 minutes walk away, is the Borough Underground station.
Free parking is easily available in Southwark Bridge Road for road
users, cyclists are welcome.
Meetings :2.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. on the
second Sunday of every month.No meetings are held in either December -
winter break, or August - summer break. Giving 10 meetings a year.
Contact :Malcolm Cadman:Tel. 020 8691 5780; email:
ql@mcad.demon.co.uk
NEMQLUG - THE NORTH EAST MANCHESTER QL USER GROUP
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Background :
We are the North East Manchester QL User Group.
The group is very active in the QL community.
Venue : Our meetings are held at : 181,
Urmston Lane , Stretford, Manchester .
M32 9EH (Near Junction 7 of M60 Motorway - Was Junction 7 M63 Motorway).
Meetings : Meets on the last Thursday of
each month (except December).
Our informal meetings start at 7pm and finish at 11pm.
All welcome.
Contacts :John / Sarah Gilpin 0161-865
2872 ( thegilpins@btinternet.com
)
SCOTTISH QL USERS GROUP
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Background : We are the
Scottish QL Users Group.
Directions : THORNHILL COMMUNITY HALL.
Thornhill is 11 miles west of STIRLING on A84 then A873.
Meetings : Second Sunday of every month
from 11.30 am to 4.30pm.
Contact : Ronald Bezzant, Monievreckie,
Port of Menteith , STIRLING , FK8 3RD.
Email: <bezzant@talk2l.com>.
SOLENT SUBGROUP [up]
Background :
Venue : We Meet at Botley Market Hall,
all welcome.
Please park at the back of the Hall and use side entrance.
Meetings : 1st Saturday of the month from
2.00 pm to 6.00 pm.
Contact : Graham Evans, tel: 023 8040
3350.
SURREY QUANTA SUBGROUP (SQSG) [up]
Background :
Venue : Venue is St Giles Church Hall,
Ashtead.
This is the other side, towards the downs, of the main Epsom -
Leatherhead road, up Park Lane which is at the Epsom end of the town.
Meetings : From 8.00 to 10.30 pm on the
last Wednesday of each month, except December.
Contact : Ken Bain 01932 347 432 (to
midnight), kenb@bcs.org.uk
SUSSEX QL USER GROUP
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Venue : Currently without a
meeting place, anyone interested should contact Keith Mitchell or Roy
Wood.
Contact : Roy Wood, 01273 386030 or Keith
Mitchell, 01903 742263.
