Photo taken by Bosbos on 25/09/2008 (http://flickr.com/photos/bosbos/)

At 12:30pm on Thursday 25th of September, Apple opened it’s doors to Bristol’s very own Apple store.

Situated on Philadelphia Street, the store is one of over 100 new shops, opened as part of the new Cabot Circus retail complex.

Covering two floors, the building is extremely modern, and while it’s certainly rather cosy inside when full of customers, it’s surprising just how much stock they have for sale up on the first floor.

For a great selection of photos taken by people who were there on the day, point your web browser over to: http://flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=cabot+circus+apple&m=text

Yes, it’s been a long wait, but Apple have finally confirmed, in the below press announcement, that the Bristol store will open at 12:30pm on Thursday 25th of September.

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Not wishing to get caught out by future surprise meetings staged by the local fishing fraternity, we’ve decided to be a little proactive, and have now booked-up all our meetings up to the end of 2008.

Get your diaries out, and please make a note of the following meeting dates (all dates are the third Monday of the month, unless stated):

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Due to the local fishing contingent getting in and booking up our room before we had a chance, MAY’S MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE SECOND MONDAY OF THE MONTH. This means that we’ll be getting together on Monday the 12th.

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MUG OF THE MONTH
Bath & Bristol Mug

We’ll always have a soft spot for the Bath & Bristol Mac User Group.

It was originally set up by Macformat’s erstwhile Deputy Editor, Russell James, but the reigns have since been passed on to other group members. It’s great to see that it’s still going strong.

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Well thanks to everyone who made it along to our first 2008 meet, at the new venue.

What a fantastic meet it was everybody was engaged and very talkative xyz.

We have the date for our next meeting. Diary’s everyone. 18th Feburary 2008 “Cadbury Heath Social Memorial Club”

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