This year was the 4th Rainford 009 Society AGM
and the third in sequence biennially, so one can safely say that it has “become
of age” as a fixture and each event sees new initiatives from Stan Williams and
his hard working team.
Stan started publicising the event on the ngrm-online forum
almost as soon as the 2016 AGM at Sparsholt in Hampshire had completed and
regular, sometimes daily (!), exhortations about how the 2017 show was to be
THE northern NG show continued throughout 2016 and into this year!
Did he achieve his aim? Well, the regular Parish Hall
remained as the main venue, but instead of the small Guide and Scout halls
across the road 200 yards away, this time they were replaced by a much larger
venue in the form of the Village Hall a further 100 yards to walk, but on the
same side of the road! I don’t think I’ve ever met a small village with so many
halls in it before, and the village hall was a good sized venue in an
impressive building that would make a very appropriate Municipal Town Hall
Both of these venues were filled to capacity with 15
traders/societies counted and 20 layouts – as well as refreshments in both
halls. I think that justifies that Stan’s aspirations were met don’t you?
The main challenge for me with my roving reporter hat on was
trying to fit everything into a very limited time window exacerbated by the 300
yard dash through the rain between the two halls and having take a pause for
over an hour for the 009 Society AGM. Therefore I felt that I had to largely
omit trying to photograph the non layout aspect such as traders, societies
and also didn’t manage a team photo of the important ladies refreshments
service teams – although to keep those who depend on it more than even photos
of the latest forthcoming 009 ready to run items, an archive record of the
CAKES! Let’s get on with it then, I hope you enjoy this report of a fine day.
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