Sunday the 14 May and NG
enthusiasts descended on the village hall at Barton Le Clay from all points of
the compass for what has become THE annual late spring narrow gauge
model-fest, courtesy of the Beds & Bucks NG Modellers who had pulled out
all the stops to make this year's event run as seamlessly as possible following
the sudden and premature passing of the Group's founder and previous
organiser-in-chief, Mark Howe after a very short illness in January.
Once again it was an excellent day
with 14 layouts present, a variety of trade and society stands including of
course the 009 Society sales managing to fill a meeting room despite sales
stocks being much lower than usual for the time of year. And of course, the
renowned refreshments, with not only 5 star bacon rolls, but sausage baps as
well and the biggest triple deck victoria cream sponge I've ever seen
(naturally there is a photo included of this!).
Congratulations are in order to
Brian Key, who took up the mantle of exhibition manager at short notice and
indeed to the whole group who chipped in to ensure that not only did the event
go ahead, but also that it went ahead in a very well organised way indeed.
Thanks to you all. Numbers were slightly down on previous years, let’s hope
that next year and beyond they are back up to and even higher than the 200+
that previously attended, because this really is a high quality narrow gauge
modelling event held in a good location and in an ideally central part of the
country for travelling to from all parts of it.
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