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The Rover Plus Club Show 2008 at
the Morganian Rugby Club Bridgwater
We raised £800 for Macmillan Nurses
during the club show this year.
The presentation of the cheque to
Macmillan Nurses will be on Saturday
13th September at 2pm at the
Morganian Rugby Club Bridgwater.
We were on the show field from the Wednesday
prior to the show weekend marking out the areas
for the camping and exhibitors and putting out
direction signs to the show all around the area.
The Stall holders and those that were camping started
arriving on the Thursday. On the Friday evening we
spent a few enjoyable hours in the club house having
a few glasses of lemonade and enjoying the music,
provided by Paul and the Blue Ridge Runners.
It started raining at 6pm and continued late into
the night. On the Saturday morning it was damp but the
field is very well drained, We had a very good turnout of
classics on the Saturday and even more on the Sunday when
by then the field had dried out. The Saturday night Disco
was well supported when a few more glasses of lemonade
were consumed. There is no truth in the rumour that the
lemonade that Rita was drinking was a little stronger than
normal. See pictures from the show in Gallery.
Thanks to all who attended the show.
And the brilliant news is we raised £800 for
Macmillan Nurses,
The cheque presentation to Macmillan Nurses has been
arranged for 2pm on Saturday 13th September at
the at The Morganian Club Bridgwater.
Paignton
We just managed to squeeze in all the club
vehicles onto our club stand in a central
position in the showground, we had the
new club banner on display, (see pictures
in Gallery) The sun was out with just enough
sea breeze to make it comfortably, the nice
weather brought lots of people out mingling
amongst the vehicles, we again had lots of
interest in the vehicles we had on display.
(Thanks to Jim & Family for making us welcome
and providing a spot for Ted to park the trailer.)
Portland
At Portland we again this year set up a joint
club stand with our friends from:
The Bournemouth & Poole Preservation Club Ltd.
Link: http://www.bppcltd.co.uk/
With vehicles from both clubs completely filling
the club stand, we think we had the most varied
selection at the show, ranging from the old to the
unusual. The weather was dry over the weekend,
but being right out at the end of Portland Bill it
is always slightly breezy.
The site is being developed into a large Hotel complex.
The owner has said he welcomes the show to return again
next year.
Powderham Castle
On the Saturday despite the wet conditions
we had 6 of the club vehicles on display.
It rained most of Saturday afternoon and
through the night, we went again to the
Smugglers Inn in nearby Holcombe for an
evening meal, the meal was brilliant.
http://www.eatoutdevon.com/devon-restaurant/details-restaurant.php?pv=1406
The decision was taken early on the Sunday
morning to cancel the event, all efforts were
then made to assist the vehicles already in the
showground to get out onto the hard surface.
South Molton
We enjoyed the weekend at the South Molton
Vintage Rally, some of us camping over until
the Monday morning.
We had vehicles in our club display ranging
from 1932 until 1991. ( see photos in Gallery)
We enjoyed the Saturday meal in The Old Coaching
Inn in S. Molton on Saturday evening so much that
we went there again on the Sunday evening.
Overall a brilliant weekend despite Terry waiting for
several hours on the A361 for the AA to sort out a
tyre problem with his 1960's caravan.