[modeleng] Re: Donnington

Hello Clif,

As I live only 25 miles from the Harrogate showground, I shall definitely be 
going there. You must let me know when you are going, so that I can look out 
for you! By the way, I have just come back (to Leeds) from a week in Dorset, 
and it rained like mad there too! My car did not exactly float away like 
those at Boscastle, but I am sure it tried once or twice!

Tony Wells.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clif Walker" <clif.gwr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 8:10 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Donnington


> Hi All,
> Having made the journey up from Penzance to the Donnington Show I must say 
> that I was not impressed and in fact only spent just over three hours at 
> the show.
> I thought that it was very "lack luster" and the £8.50 admission charge 
> way over the top.
> Not a very interesting range of models which showed as I only took one 
> photo and that was of a loco under construction which was going to have a 
> very nice Backhead.
> I heard on the grapevine that many larger models were not taken to the 
> show as for most people in meant taking a day off work and TEE would not 
> pay any expenses
> I think that the high costs of trade stands also was obvious from the way 
> that on the machinery stands the equipment was crammed in.It was also 
> noticable that most companies that were there, had stands about a half of 
> their normal size.
> The car park was exciting on Wednesday as because of the amount of rain it 
> had turned into a sort of brown liquid swamp.
> Met a few friends but had no contacts from my @ badge.
> I will not bother again and shall stick to the Harrogate Show which I 
> think is still the best even if it is about 150 miles further on.
>
> Regards
>
> Clif
>
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