This is possibly a little late but next Saturday - August 13th - sees the biennial West Midlands Group Members day at Water Orton.
There are full details of how to get there, etc. here (http://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/events/13337-NarrowGaugeMidlands) but just a couple of quick things to add to /update the diary entry on the forum (and in 009 News):
"Beltchenfahrt" (HOe) by Angela Baker is no longer able to attend, it's place being taken by "Brandgeight" (009) by Peter Hardy
N-Drive Productions is also unable to attend.
The 009 Society sales stand WILL be attending - somehow this information didn't make it into the diary pages (the person concerned has been reprimanded!)
Also folks attending the exhibition should note that there are weekend closures at Junction 6 of the M6 (also known as the Gravelly Hill interchange or Spaghetti Junction) which means that one can not get on or off the motorway there, but as this is the main route into Birmingham and the exhibition is some distance away at Water Orton then it shouldn't have any effects (unless one's other half is wanting to do some shopping in Birmingham to try to match your spend at the Society sales stand!).
I've just finalised the figures from the exhibition:
We had 126 people through the door, made a modest profit for the group and the catering corps raised
It was an excellent show Julian, well worth the trip from Suffolk.
Catering was very good.
Glad it was successful for the group.
Whilst I was too busy on the day to take any photos (and in advance of Mick Thornton's report in a forthcoming 009 News) I have had permission from one of the West Mids members, Steve Mann, to publish his photos, which can be found on my Flickr pages here (https://flic.kr/s/aHskCLLXMZ).
We got there in the end! Sorry for the delay folks - well it was only a month this time, so I suppose it was almost instant compared with some of my recent delays.
Anyway, despite the efforts of Google to frustrate me, which they have been very successful at actually, I eventually beat them and got the report of this excellent little do uploaded on my blog. Instructions on how to navigate to the new Google Images album that the blog is linked to are given in the blog entry. I hope it works for you as it has been a right pain getting it sorted out!
This notice also posted in NGRM-Online
Mick
Thanks for those Mick.
The new system seems to work well too.