The Small & Delightful Railway Group, who organise NG
Southwest at Shepton Mallet, held their own biennial open day at Compton Dundon
village hall, near Street in Somerset
on 29 September. Unfortunately this time round, attendance was affected by the
group having a new location, which was not widely publicised, and their
own website published the event as being the weekend before! Added to
this, a couple of layouts dropped out just the day before, so those hardy
exhibition chasers that did manage to find the show had rather thin pickings.
On the plus side however, both the 7mm NGA and 009 Society sales
were present in full and some real bargains were able to be identified
without jostling amongst crowds, the day was the expected informal and friendly
gathering - and the Victoria Cream Sponge cake baked by the Glastonbury
Lions ladies was probably the nicest I have ever sampled!
