WINTER PROGRAMME 2011 - 2012
Newcastle-u-Lyme, Staffs. ST5 6PF
On the FIRST Wednesday and the THIRD Monday in each month starting at 7.30pm.
OCTOBER
Wednesday 5th. David Hill of
Warrington (last
years 'Titantic'
speaker ) returns with:-
"The Crystal Palace and the Great
Exhibition" (V)
Monday
17th The Taylor Family
Show !!
Rodger's daughter Claire
Gardener on developments on the NSMES Website and
Facebook.
followed by the man himself Rodger, 'Building a
Stanier Black Five in 5” gauge”
A
short pre-talk meeting will take place to accept nominations for the
Society Awards;
Members
asked to give thought to possible candidates. See list of
awards in the membership
section.
NOVEMBER
Wednesday 2nd Bits
& pieces Night.
Please bring small items whose description may help others.
Finished
parts, jigs, small
tooling made.
Voting for
Society Awards – nominated items on display where necessary.
Monday 21st
Auction
Evening. Please bring
along items to sell on 10% or more percentage basis to assist
Society funds.
Please bring what you can
to assist
other members and raise money for Society funds
Motions for
AGM to be submitted.
The
Annual Awards Dinner will
be held on Thursday 24th November.
DECEMBER
Wednesday 7th A Year in the
Workshop with Stuart Daw....with hopefully some helpful
Boxing Day Morning, get away from the turkey and mince-pies---
before Feb. 1st or your membership lapses.
2012
January
Wednesday 4th Paul Durant of
Nantwich "Building a 5" Garden Railway." (V)
Monday 16th
Philip Robinson
Chairman of the Moseley Trust. (Apedale Valley Heritage)
An illustrated
talk on 'What Narrow Gauge Railways did for us' (v)
Frid 20th - Sun 22nd. London
Model Engineering Exhibition at the Alexander palace
February
Wednesday 1st Annual General Meeting.
Monday
21st Geoff Whittaker,Crewe,talk on the construction of his 2" scale Fowler A7 agricultural
engine
March
Wednesday 7th Stew Hart of Crewe,
author of articles in ME etc., 'The Wall Engine
and Others' (V)
Monday 19th Alan Boon from
Middlewich. "Building 10 1/4” gauge
wagons and other rolling stock for
the
Rudyard Lake Railway." (V)
April
Wednesday 4th Our dear old
friend David Bradbury. Illustrated talk on "the Miscellany of Steam." (V)
Monday
16th Ian Hughes of
Eccleshall “Progress in the building of
the 4” scale working of a
Ferguson agricultural tractor.” (V)
Boiler
Testing Wednesdays from 30th March and
Sundays 22nd & 29th
April.
Members are urged to get their boilers tested throughout the year, Weds
in April and May are popular, staggering the load on the boiler
testers. However, Sunday 22nd and Sunday 29th April are still
available for those who cannot do that. Please bring the
boilers
fully prepared to be tested to avoid delays.