Dear member,
We have sadly received a phone call from Pat, Norman Davies’s wife to say that Norman has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is currently in The Countess of Chester Hospital but will be coming home soon as that is his wish. I have told Pat that I am sure all members join me in hoping that Norman is not suffering and for her to tell him we are all thinking about him.
Norman had asked Pat to contact Les Herriot and myself as he had asked particularly that his collection of models and layout be disposed of and I will be making contact/liaising with those who knew Norman to see if they can help in this matter.
I am unable due to family commitments to go and see Norman this week; Sue & I are then away on holiday for one week returning on Sunday 12th August which happens to be Calder Northern’s next monthly meet.
I will therefore be unable to attend that meet and my apologies to everyone but hope you have a great day.
Now to the more usual TO notes – On 18th/19th August there is a Steam Weekend at Crewe Heritage Centre and we have been asked if members could be available to run all the Calder Northern layouts that weekend. There will be steam locomotives on site and an event like this is sure to attract many visitors. It is also a great opportunity to showcase our layouts, trains and maybe welcome local people to join the Group. I will ask Mike Ingham if he can let us have some more membership brochures that we can display or hand out to prospective members.
Official welcome to new members Brian Burke and to father and son duo Len and David Ford; Len & David have already made swift moves to get our Calder Northern website up and running. These two guys have already shown the basics of the site and now are looking to obtain information which can be posted to the site for both member benefit and for others to see. If anyone has photos, press cuttings or suitable anecdotes about the Division and its activities then please would you mail that to Len at len.ford@caldernorthern.org Obviously your committee will have to limit what is on the site as we have to consider what we may wish to add in the future and we don’t want to have too much information in one section which prevents us adding detail in another.
Len has indicated that sections such as – Home page; About us; Layouts; Photo Gallery; News & Events; Contact Us; Members; Links to other sites, will be included and each member will have a unique access.
I am currently preparing information to mail to Len for inclusion but would appreciate any additional detail you can provide.
Welcome back into the Calder Northern family to Brian Neville in Dumfries and Trevor Austin in Crewe, it is good to have you guys back on board.
If anyone has asked Brian Neville for items from Eric White’s collection that was not dealt with at our last Meet then Brian will be along at our September meeting on Saturday 8th. Contact him on 01387 710782.
We have offers from Les Herriot and Paul Doggett to host clinics and your feedback is requested on when you would like these to take place. Les is doing his on KD’s and his famous Anti-wobble washer (to get rid of those freight cars wobbles) and Paul’ is offering a guide to soldering be it work on your soldering things like track or on your brass models or kits.
Finally a big thank you to those of you who have been regulars operating the layout during the weekend public entry days at the Heritage Centre. Your generous help is much appreciated.
Terry Wynne
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