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BLACK DIAMONDS
Next Meets: 15 April/27 May (Full Division) New venue – Kegworth Village Hall
John Hey Tel. 01509 852803
CALDER NORTHERN
Regular meets: 16 April/13 May/4 June
at Bardsley Hall, Wharf Road, Altrincham.
Geoff Meek Tel. 0161 926 8339
CENTRAL DIVISION MIDWEST Sub-Division... John Parker Tel. 01527 542245
CYDER BELT
3rd Sunday Claverton Village Hall
Derek Frow Tel. 01225 832934
Bring & Buy available, contact Bob as below: Also Open House at Derek’s 1st Wed from 8pm. AVON VALLEY Sub-Division... Avon/Somerset/Wiltshire. Contact Bob Taylor on 0117 983 6036 before 9.30pm.
THREE COUNTIES Sub-Division... Hereford/Gloucester/Worcester.
Contact Rod Welch on 01452 830952
EASTERN
Meets: 8 April/Late Summer Meet 19 Aug
Mike Arnold Tel: 01702 584081 THAMESIDE Sub-Division... Essex/Suffolk South.
Contact Mike Arnold on 01702 584081 GRAND UNION Sub-Division... Herts/Cambs South
Contact John Baggaley on 01442 873914 FEN TIGERS Sub-Division... Norfolk/Cambs North/Suffolk North
Contact Mike Browning on 01366 388624
LONDON
Rai Fenton Tel. 0181 524 1645
NORTH EAST AMERICAN RAILROADERS Ken Dickson Tel. 01670 590905
NORTH EAST (VIKING DIVISION)
Paul Atkinson Tel. 01423 864762
NORTHERN IRELAND
Informal get togethers on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, anyone interested please phone... Desmond Browne Tel. 01232 298866
RED DRAGON (WALES) DIVN.
Meets at Conservative Club, Cadoxton, Barry.
Next Meets: 13 May/8 July
Norman Carey Tel. 01222 564505
SOUTH-EASTERN DIVN.
Meets last Friday of the month at Montefiore Hall, Three Bridges. Open Day 13 May Peter Wilson Tel. 01892 750122
SW&N (SWANS)
Stanwell, Windsor & Northolt - for anyone within reach of Western M25
Charles Hendy Tel. 01895 637043
WESTERN UNION (SOUTH WEST)
Meets at Hill Top Community Centre, Tamer- ton, near Plymouth.
Plymouth Meets: 20 May/15 July
Exeter Meets: Call for details
Richard Smith Tel. 01208 76147 SOUTHERN (D&H - DORSET/HANTS)
Russ Cook Tel. 01202 679263
THAMES VALLEY
High Wycombe & District Club American section meets fortnightly on Mondays. Vernon Stone Tel. 01628 627537
WHITE HORSE
Ted Smale Tel. 01865 730455
John Hey’s column, aimed at providing members with useful contact information and keeping everyone in touch with what’s going on around the Region.
Region Publicity Officer...
JOHN HEY, 69 Stonebridge Drive, EAST LEAKE, Leicestershire LE12 6JW.
Tel/Fax 01509 852803
E-mail: Jheytrains@aol.com
On the right is a list of contacts and regular meeting dates - all are subject to change without notice, so please call the appropriate number to confirm.
Will all Division leaders please keep me informed of forthcoming meets so that ROUNDHOUSE can publicise them.
The Minutes
of the Annual General Meeting of the British Region, NMRA
Held at the Moat House Hotel, Peterborough on 22nd. October 1999.
President Mike Spray opened the meeting at 9.00 p.m.
In attendance were...
Mike Spray (President), Geoff Meek (Vice President), Paul Atkinson (Past President), Len Firth (Treasurer), Steve Park (Secretary) and Vernon Stone, John Firth, Bill Hamilton- Turner, Graham Jessopp, J.M.Ingham, David G. Newton, Jim McCulloch, Les Herriot, Gordon Nelhams, Joe Halsall, Ron Taylor, J.E. Roberts, Peter Smith, Rod Coombs, Richard Hodder, Stephen Carpenter, Ken O’Shea, Bill Eaglesham, H. George McGhee, Walter I.O. Moffat, Ian Wilson, John Sammans, Tom Winlow, Jym Phillips, Ken Crew, Derek Milby, Ken Bradshaw, Les Keuneke, John Hey, Jason Dickie, Robin Swan, Richard Wearing, Jon Jewitt, Ted Smale, Bob Taylor, Richard Smith, Vernor Bates, Derek Frow, Ian Forsyth, Mike Warren, Russ Cook, John Spratley, David Collins, Bill Hutchings, Charles Hendy, Mike Rimes, Vanessa Howells, Tom Watson, Norman Davies, Chris White, Alan Cross.
1. Apologies for Absence were received from Norman Carey, Martin Boyask, Rod Welch, Ellis James-Robertson, Tony Dunbar, Rai Fenton (for the first part of the meeting), Maurice Sims, Paul Doggett, Alan Day- Winter, Rod Pickering, Doug. Stephens, Lindsay Beare, Frank Weston, Keith Webb,Carol Webb, Nigel Hodgson.
2. Minutes of the Previous Meeting, the Half Yearly Business Meeting at Egham on March 22nd had been published in Roundhouse and copies were available in the meeting room. Proposed by Geoff Meek, seconded by John Firth, these were accepted as an accurate record of that meeting.
3. There were no matters arising from these minutes.
4. President Mike Spray thanked the organisers of the convention for arranging this weekend for us. He then reported on recent changes. Ted Smale had relinquished the Supplies Agency to |Barry Bennett, John Wright had superseded Peter Thompson as Webmaster, Paul Doggett had taken charge of the Member Aid Department. Keith Webb had resigned as Assistant Publicity Officer (South). He thanked all these members for their work. No replacement had been forthcoming for Keith Webb and the Directors were considering re-structuring the Publicity Department. Derek Milby had arranged for a promotional video to be shown at the Dapol premises. He was particularly pleased to welcome Geoff Meek and Len Firth who had both now recovered from recent illnesses.
5. Treasurer Len Firth reported on the Accounts for the last year, which had been published in Roundhouse. In general, running expenses, including publishing
Division News...
Eastern Division
Mike Arnold has organised an informal first meeting for the Thameside Sub. of the Eastern Division. (Letters have al- ready been dispatched to local mem- bers). He has booked a small bar in the CricketersPub,LondonRd.,(A13) West- cliffe on Sea, Essex for Saturday April 8th. This is mainly a discussion to find out what members would like from their area organisation but also you can bring models for sale, photos of US holidays to show etc etc.
Please let Mike know if you can attend. 01702-584081. Bear in mind that though the NMRA has exclusive use of the bar, it is in a public place.
Southern Seaboard
Our “Open Day” at Three Bridges (map below) on 13th May is now confirmed; as well as the Grand Junction and Silver City we hope to have two small visiting switching layouts, and sales stands from Terry Page and John Bloom.
The idea is to make it just NMRA mem- bers and their guests (especially poten- tial members) partly because of insurance and mainly because of the hall capacity. This is not a formal Divisional meet in the true NMRA sense of the word but it would be nice to try to get those members who we know are out there but don’t come along to Fridays, and some of our more experienced neighbours. If we get good support then we will try some- thing bigger next year.
Contact Peter Wilson on 01892 750122
Seaboard Southern Meet
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