[modeleng] Re: Donnington
- From: "Brian Merrifield" <pprailway@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:11:20 +0100
Hi Tony / Clif
Can anyone let me have a date for next years Harrogate Show I am hoping to
spend some time in Yorkshire next spring and it would be good to be able to
take in the show while I'm there. I will be travelling up from Poole in
Dorset and can confirm that it was a tad wet last week. While you were down
here did you call in on the Bournemouth ME society track at Littledown?
I am interested in the comments about the Donnington show, it is a long way
to go from Dorset but three of us made the effort and enjoyed our day. I
agree there seemed to be fewer models on display this year but I still found
plenty to look at. We visited on the last day and the show closed at 4pm
but by 3 O clock some of the stands were well on their way to being
dismantled. I know many of the trades people have a lot of work to do
before they are on their way home but as a member of the paying public I
think it reasonable for the show to be fully open until the closing time.
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Tony Wells
Sent: 25 October 2004 20:26
To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [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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