The Sussex Downs Group laid on their 5th biennial open day
in the 5th different location since the first in 2007 - and this year moved
away from the Haywards Heath area down to the coast at Lancing, to the very
well appointed and suitable for this type of event in Lancing Parish Hall. As
always, it was a very well organised event indeed on all counts including a 5
star refreshment service, with 9 layouts, mainly in 009 and 2 in 0-16.5 plus
trade support from Narrow Planet, Meridian Models, and the 009 Society Sales,
Star of the show was undoubtedly Ted Polet’s small layout Nixnie which he
brought all the way to Lancing from his home in Leiden in the Netherlands. I
had a splendidly enjoyable day in Sussex as did everyone present that
I spoke to. Very well done to the SDG team and see you in 2017 hopefully!
