Burpham Pages was first published in July 2006 and since then we have written about all sorts of locally related subjects and helped many local businesses promote their services to the community.

Since 2006 we’ve been kept in the loop by the Burpham Community Association and heard all about the history of Burpham from Moira MacQuaide (her recent article ‘The streets of Burpham…’ was very popular), had regular updates from Burpham Church and been guided through the seasonal gardening tasks by Burpham Gardening Club.

With the re-design of the magazine launched in September 2018 we also launched a new website featuring the articles from the magazine plus a ‘Business Directory’ listing local businesses and services as well as a ‘Whats On Directory’ listing local events and things to do. In October 2020 we also launched a second magazine and website, Stoughton Pages focussed on the local community in Stoughton.

Since the re-design we’ve featured many interesting editorial articles including: ‘Going wild in Guildford’, ‘Restarting reuse’ and ‘Alan Turing: The new face of the £50 note’ and we’ve now published 25 original crosswords, all available online if you fancy some puzzling.

With this being the 100th issue we’ve been thinking about the number ‘100’ and why it is so significant. We’ve done some research and looked in to the numerology of 100 as well as historical and significant uses of the number. Here’s some of the interesting number related info we’ve discovered:

• The word ‘hundred’ comes from the Old Norse term ‘hundrath’ which actually means 120 not 100. So, maybe, we’ve got a few more issues to go!
• ‘C’ is the Roman numeral for 100. ‘C’ comes from the word Latin word centrum.
• Despite their name, centurions would usually only command 80 men. The closest thing the Romans had to a man in charge of 100 men was the praetor hastarius in charge of the panel of the centumviri, a special civil court panel in Rome. Even this wasn’t strictly 100 people: the panel had 105 members during the Republic and 180 during the Empire.

• A googol is one followed by a hundred. Its official number name is ten duotrigintillion.
• A googolplex is 1 followed by a googol noughts, or 10googol. It is more than all the hydrogen atoms in the observable universe and to write it in decimal notation would take up more space than the universe currently occupies. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, adopted the name after looking to see if ‘googol’ was taken as a domain name – it nicely summed up the projected size of their database – but they accidentally misspelled it.
• 100 is the basis of percentages (per cent meaning ‘per hundred’ in Latin).
• A hundred was the Anglo Saxon unit of measurement for land area. A hundred had enough land to sustain 100 households headed by ‘a hundred man’ who did all the administration, raising troops and leading forces. Hundreds were divided into tithings, each with ten households. The basic unit of land was the ‘hide’, with enough land for one family.
• On the Celsius scale, 100 degrees is the boiling temperature of pure water at sea level.
• 100 is the number of years in a century.
• The 100 Years War between England and France actually lasted for 116 years since it started in 1337 and ended in 1453.
• 100 is the number of centimetres in a metre.
• In United Kingdom, 100 is the operator telephone number.
• In Greece, India, Israel and Nepal, 100 is the police telephone number.
• In Belgium, 100 is the ambulance and firefighter telephone number.
• 100 is the minimum number of yards for a Par 3 hole in golf.
• A person who lives to be 100 is called a centenarian.
• The sum of the first 10 odd numbers equals 100.
• There are 100 letter tiles in a Scrabble game.
• There are 100 sweat glands in one square inch of skin.

We hope you’ve been enjoying reading Burpham Pages and that you find the ads useful. If you haven’t already had a look at our website please do so, we’re constantly updating and improving it and hope to make it even more Burpham focussed.

If you run your own business, or if you are organising an event locally, you might considering advertising in the magazine. It’s the perfect way to communicate with the local community, and feedback tells us
that many local people like to hang on to their copy of Burpham Pages until the next one arrives so that they have some useful numbers at hand, just in case.

With the re-design of the magazine launched in September 2018 we also launched a new website featuring the articles from the magazine plus a ‘Business Directory’ listing local businesses and services as well as a ‘Whats On Directory’ listing local events and things to do.

So here’s to the next 100 issues of Burpham Pages. We look forward to talking to you all and continuing to be a part of the Burpham community.