If I may interject, Salford is quite hard to get to, even for locals.
Proximity to Manchester Piccadilly and Victoria would be a better criterion.
:)

Dev

2008/12/1 Alison Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> On Mon, December 1, 2008 08:03, James wrote:
> > Manchester or Birmingham would be a good bet I think - nice and central
> to
> > the whole UK, so everyone can get there without travelling too far.
>
> Locations can be so problematic though. I went to the founding meeting of
> a national organisation years ago which was held in Manchester (Salford,
> in fact) because "it was central and fairer to people attending from all
> over the UK".
>
> Turned out though that *everyone* attending had come up on the train from
> Euston (though I'd got on at Watford) which meant that after the time that
> had been booked at the venue we carried on on the return train to London
> and then in the facilities at Euston for another few hours too!
>
> Whilst not wishing to suggest that London would 'automatically' be the
> best venue on the grounds of easy and fast access from all directions,
> getting a pre-indication of who might be most likely to attend and how
> their finances / timings are for getting to the possible locations might
> be useful (the graph exercise in reducing the overall cost by selection of
> location is left as an exercise for the student).
>
> Alison
>
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