The International Meccano Model Show 2014 (Skegex)
By Marion Cotterill • Published on Friday 21 February 2014, 9:42pm
4th – 6th July 2014
Organised by the North Midlands Meccano Guild
Our 33rd annual exhibition will again follow the well established pattern.
‘Setting up’ will be from 12 noon on Thursday 3rd July 2014.
Those requiring large model space please contact Geoff Brown direct on 01522 790 422 or gfnbrown@btinternet.com
We hope to have all our regular traders present and perhaps some new ones. Prize voting will conclude at 3:00pm on Sunday 6th July, with prizes being awarded to the first five winners on the basis of modellers votes, presented around 4:00pm.
Our normal range of Meccano related raffle prizes will be offered and the draw will be made at 4:30pm on Sunday 6th July.
There will be a ‘social evening’ at the New Park Club at 7:30pm on Saturday 5th July with buffet refreshments provided at 8:00pm.
On Friday 4th July there will be a dinner with wine and coffee at The Vine Hotel (The Imperial is now closed), Drummond Road. The cost will be £20 each. Please make cheques payable to North Midlands Meccano Guild and send them to Marion Cotterill, 37 Park Avenue, Skegness, Lincs, PE25 2TF, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope for a reply. Menu choices must be with me by 21st June 2014 (see below). Meccano friends from abroad can again reserve tickets with Marion and collect on arrival at Skegex.
East Lindsey District Council is the landlord and again imposing certain conditions:
- Car park passes will not be available for 2014 (not my decision, but car park operators).
- Restrictions on entry and exit via back door, to be used only for unloading and loading models and sales.
- Exhibitor badges must be worn at all times for entry and Exhibitor passes will be available for spouses and partners.
All enquiries to Marion Cotterill, 37 Park Avenue, Skegness, Lincs, PE25 2TF
m.cotterill44@talktalk.net or 07749 303 161
Dinner at The Vine Hotel
Menu options
Starter 1 - Roast Tomato Soup, Garlic Herb Croutons
Starter 2 - Chicken Liver Pate, Brioche
Main 1 - Roast Shoulder of Pork, Shallot and Cider Gravy, Duck Fat Roast Potatoes, Garden Veg
Main 2 - Blue Cheese and Spinach Pasta
Main 3 - Chicken Breast Wrapped in Parma Ham, Served with Contadino. Italian Stew of Fennel and Chilli Sausage, Lentil, Chestnut, Mushroom Garlic and Tomato
Dessert 1 - Selection of Ice Cream
Dessert 2 - Chocolate Truffle Cake, Raspberries and Raspberry Sorbet
If you want to get ahead, get a hat!
By Pete Wood • Published on Monday 3 February 2014, 4:52pm
Hi folks,
just a little detective work here, after the meeting on Saturday, we found a hat left on the sidewall. We thought we'd worked out who it belonged to but sadly we were wrong!
If it was either you who went home with a chilly bonce, or if you know who it might have been, please get in touch.
If I get too many claims for it, I'll hang on to it til next February and put it in the auction!! :-D
Many thanks, and best wishes
Pete
Meccanuity 2014
By Pete Wood • Published on Friday 3 January 2014, 9:13am
The following message comes from Roger Thorpe, Secretary of Telford and Ironbridge Meccano Society. You can download the poster and newsletter from our Library…
Dear Meccano friends,
Attached below you will find a poster and newsletter predominantly concerning our annual exhibition in May. All are welcome to attend. If you would like to join us for the whole event or just one day then please send (by post or email) a copy of the table space booking form back to me so that I can allocate space.
All at the Telford and Ironbridge Meccano Society wish you a healthy and Meccano-filled New Year.
Newsletter editors are welcome to to use any of the attached material in their publications.
With kindest regards and many thanks,
Roger Thorpe
Secretary, Telford and Ironbridge Meccano Society
London Meccano Club Events Guide
By Tim Surtell • Published on Thursday 19 December 2013, 7:38pm
The 2014 edition of the London Meccano Club Events Guide is now out and includes the meeting dates for all six of London's Meccano clubs and societies!
Download the printable guide to find out what Meccano events are happening near you next year…
londonmeccanoclub.org.uk/london-meccano-club-events-guide.pdf
The printable guide hasn't space to show every event, so make sure you take a look at the interactive map and guide on the website at londonmeccanoclub.org.uk or follow London Meccano Club on social media:
Seasons Greetings to you all!
By Pete Wood • Published on Monday 9 December 2013, 8:17pm
I would just like to say "Happy Christmas" to all Guild members and their families!
Whatever your faith, following or beliefs, the message is the same — be good to each other, live "longly", healthily and happily, and spare a thought for those less fortunate than ourselves.
Enjoy the season thus…
…and apart from all this, make lots of Meccano models!
May all of your presents be full of holes!
Best wishes,
Pete (and Alfie)
New website RSS feeds
By Tim Surtell • Published on Thursday 21 November 2013, 12:47pm
You can now subscribe to our RSS feeds to receive notifications whenever our website is updated. Just point your RSS reader at one or more of the following URLs:
We've also routed the Gallery feed to the London Meccano Club Facebook and Twitter accounts, so if you prefer to stay in touch that way (and get updates from London's other Meccano clubs too!) find us on Facebook at facebook.com/LondonMeccanoClub or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/MeccanoClub.
Konkoly Supermodels
By Tim Surtell • Published on Friday 8 November 2013, 10:35am
Nick Rodgers, along with some of our other members, has started a new project to build and photograph a selection of models designed by one of the world's most famous Meccano model builders, Andreas Konkoly (1918–2003).
You can now view the first 40 models online in our Gallery, and there'll be more to follow soon.
If you haven't already, subscribe to 'Gallery media' and you'll be notified when new models are added to our Gallery. (If you're reading this in an e-mail, click the link at the foot of this e-mail to manage your subscriptions.)
A bridge too far?
By Pete Wood • Published on Wednesday 2 October 2013, 2:42pm
Greetings one and all,
I have received a plea for help via one of our esteemed members, for a bridge model to be used in a TV advert. If anyone is willing and able to assist at all, the contact details can be found below.
The letter reads as follows:
My name is Ashling Johnson and I'm a set designer for TV commercials. I am currently working on a Unilever ad and in one of our shots we need a Meccano bridge (not too big) something that would be able to fit on a kitchen table about 2/3 feet high by 3/4 feet in length. I'm not sure if you can help me but this is quite specialist obviously and I've been trawling the internet to find something we can use that an existing person may have made or we buy up some old stock and buy it and make it and then donate it back to whomever would be interested.
Perhaps you can help.
Ashling Johnson
If anyone is able to help in any way, please contact either Andrew Luckham at flangebracket50@yahoo.co.uk or Ashling Johnson, at ashlingart@mac.com
Many thanks,
Pete Wood
Request for correspondence
By Pete Wood • Published on Monday 9 September 2013, 5:41pm
Hi all,
I received this letter from a student who's doing a Masters degree in History, with Meccano being the main theme. Please read and respond if you are able to assist him in any way...
Dear Mr Wood
I am a postgraduate student currently reading for my Masters degree in History of Design at the Royal College of Art in London. My dissertation is concerned with the design of boyhood in the mid twentieth century and I am using Meccano and Meccano Magazine as my central case study. I am contacting you to enquire whether any of the members of the Runnymede Meccano Guild would be interested in sharing their personal experiences of Meccano and any recollections that they might have of Meccano Magazine. I am particularly interested in hearing from those who were constructing with Meccano in the 1940s or 1950s and those who read or subscribed to Meccano Magazine in those decades. any of your members would be interested in talking to me or corresponding with me please let me know.
I am happy to communicate via email, regular mail, in person or over the phone - whichever is more convenient.
Yours sincerely
Nick Petters
Nicholas Petters
MA History of Design
Royal College of Art / Victoria & Albert Museum
nicholas.petters@network.rca.ac.uk
New website gallery
By Tim Surtell • Published on Thursday 11 July 2013, 1:58pm
The Runnymede Meccano Guild now has a website gallery where you will find photos and videos from our meetings and also, as time goes by, more in-depth information on specific models written by our members:
https://runnymedemeccanoguild.org.uk/gallery
If you are a guild member, you can now log into our website and add your models to the gallery – all you need to do is request access from Tim Surtell at tim.surtell@runnymedemeccanoguild.org.uk