Organ Update 42 (10/10/07)
History in Harmony UPDATE #42 Compiled by Boz Oram boz@historyinharmony.com www.historyinharmony.com Welcome to Update Number 42 – and again welcome to all members new and existing on the History in Harmony Update. Please feel free to contact me at the usual address boz@historyinharmony.com and if others would like to join, then let them know and I’ll gladly send out a copy to them. All links and websites have been checked out beforehand. They should all work just at the click of a button. It’s been a rather hectic time just recently, but I’ve finally got around to getting enough information and collating it all in a readable fashion. Grateful thanks to all who have contributed to the Update as it makes my life just that bit easier and hopefully a bit more interesting than reading about “the world according to Boz”. I bought a digital camera recently, and once I understand how to download the pictures onto this computer, then I’ll put some of them onto the History in Harmony website. Yes I know that it’s still under construction, but we’ve been looking at some new and exciting ideas that have been suggested. News from Australia Dear Boz Now talking about the weather as we do in OZ, Melbourne and Victoria as a whole is still in the grip of an ongoing drought, 6years plus and still counting. Our Dams are at 38percent at the moment so we are hoping for spring rains to fill them a bit more before Summer arrives, if not we will be going onto stage 4 restrictions in Melbourne before long, this means that NO WATERING of gardens or anything outside. The Australian Mechanical Organ Society will be holding our National Rally over the Melbourne Cup weekend of the 3rd and 4th of November this year at Corowa the birth place of Federation in Australia. We will have a variety of organs in attendance from small to large so it should be a good rally, members coming from NZ, QLD, NSW VIC, SA, and, NT. Regards Des Lang Secretary A.M.O.S. http://homepage.mac.com/ozorgans/ PS don’t forget that the Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club will be holding its Rally in early March of next year. http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mstec/ In the last edition, I was rambling on about Imperial and metric Measures and pressure and heat…….. From Chris Finn Dear Boz, You will find the relationship between temperature and pressure for steam if you Google "Steam Tables" (with the quotes, for excluding much of the irrelevant stuff), where you will find many references - among them, the symmetric one where you can choose Imperial or Metric units - or copy and paste one of the following links - http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_steam_imp.htm (imperial) http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_steam.htm (metric) Many thanks also for including the details of Celsius' "upside-down" temperature scale. The "right way up" scale was actually the suggestion/work of Linnaeus - see below. I found this out years ago from a letter in Radio Times. These from Googling Celsius + Linnaeus ... (start quote) Celsius, Olaus (1670–1756) Swedish botanist and academic. He was author of Hierobotanicon, a work on the plants mentioned in the Bible. He was the patron and instructor of the Swedish naturalist and physician Carolus Linnaeus. Celsius was born in Uppsala, Sweden, where he was later professor of theology and oriental languages in the university and also provost of the cathedral. Olof Celsius http://www.plantexplorers.com/explorers/biographies/celsius/index.html From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia; a botanist, filologist and clergyman, Celsius was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. He was born in 1670 and died in 1756. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carolus Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants - Hierobotanicos in 1745-47. Olof Celsius's nephew Anders Celsius was an astronomer who invented a temperature scale where 0 represented the boiling point and 100 the freezing point of water. Linnaeus in 1744 reversed the scale to the Celsius scale we use today (previously known as the centigrade scale) end quote As far as I'm concerned, it STILL IS known as the Centigrade scale... I hope you found that interesting, and it may be usable in your next History In Harmony Update. Chris Finn Thanks for that Chris – yes it is of interest and I hope it has appeal for others who read this missive Chris continues…….. PS - I forgot to mention that you could have missed out the 'C' in the paragraph below - Minus 40°C is the same temperature as minus 40°F!! In fact, one good way of converting from C to F or back is to add 40, and then multiply by 5/9 (F to C) or 9/5 (C to F) then subtract 40. Example: 212 F becomes (212 + 40) x 5/9 - 40 °C. which is 252 * 5/9 - 40 or 140 - 40, ie 100°C. Now it's easy to see that - 40 is the same for both, as 5/9 of zero is the same as 9/5 of zero, ie ... zero. More from Chris From the last edition of the Update………. Later in this story of ice, Clarence Birdseye happened to be in the Iceland wastes where he found out about fast freezing by lowering the temperature to –40C. This made the possibility of getting frozen food to places where long lasting food had been previously unavailable. http://www.birdseyefoods.com/corp/about/clarenceBirdseye.asp Are you sure Clarence Birdseye went that cold? A domestic freezer usually runs at 0°F which is about -18°C. In answer, the figure of –40°C was the temperature in those frozen wastes, he realised that such low temperatures were not needed to freeze food as this would of course waste precious energy to get temperatures down to this figure, he did however make many tests to work out the optimum temperature that would preserve the food and not destroy it. ED How do you get those strange symbols in you computer? Lastly, if it is of any use to you, you get the ° (degree) symbol by holding down ALT and typing 248 on the NUMBER keypad on the right (not the numbers on the top row). Lots of useful symbols can be quickly generated this way, including these very handy ones - ALT plus 171 = ½ 243 = ¾ 241 = ± 248 = ° 252 = ³ 268= ♀ 269=♪ 254=■ 172 = ¼ 230 = µ 155 = ø 251 = ¹ 253 = ² 215=╫ 270=♫ 999=τ I am using Outlook Express so the figures might be different for another type of computer. I keep a table saved of what does what in both Excel and Word (copy emailed on request...) Kind regards, Chris F Thanks for that Chris; there is certainly lots that I didn’t know - ☻that one’s 258 and this is plain old number 1☺You can tell boredom’s creeping in now as I’m playing – let’s move onto another subject…. From Nick Lerescu out in the US Hi Boz and Linda Thanks for the plug ref Iasi. We are going over with 16 persons, all MBSI from the USA. In the last edition of the History in Harmony Update, I’d mentioned a reason why traffic traveled on the right hand side of the road – ie the use of Poplar Trees. Nick continues… I wanted to comment on the item below. It seems to be true – I read it in some publication myself. What it’s missing is that Napoleon planted these poplar trees on the right side of the road in order to offer most shade during the afternoon, when the sun was hot. Thus his army marched on the right side of the road and so did his cavalry and the army supply wagons. Thus he created the driving on the right side of the road and once he conquered most of Europe, he was able to implement it on the Continent. Were he to conquer England, you too, would drive today on the right (as opposed to the wrong) side of the road J Yes Nick, but he didn’t, and neither did anyone else for that matter so we continue to travel on the left and we still have our pints, miles and other natural measurements! Cheers Nick Lerescu ADVANTAGE TOURS INT'L INC. 9 E Gate Dr, Glenwood, NJ 07418 -USA atc@warwick.net or www.horologytours.net (do go onto this website – you’ll be amazed at the little gismo that Nick has managed to fit onto it – how on earth does it work?) In fact, Nick should have returned back from the tour by now, so maybe he’ll give a small write up on how it went. Thanks Nick! Funny How Things Happen On my return from Belgium with the organ carried on the old Thames Trader lorry built by Ford, I had a blow-out on one of the rear tyres. Now this wasn’t to be a real problem apart from the fact that I’ve lost a bit of strength over the years and the wheel nuts were a bit tight to undo. Well with a bit of tubing and remembering that the threads go the opposite way to the other side of the vehicle ie right hand and left hand threads – meant that I was to miss the ferry, but at least Luc had had experience of me the previous year and booked an open ticket! This meant that I could catch the next one, so no problem there – just a jolly joyride into Blankenberg and go and see the sights, sounds and have some nosh. We arrived back in the UK, went through Customs and went on our journey home. Well about 20 miles from home at about 3am, I had another blowout; now this one I really didn’t expect as the tyre had never ever been on the road and had lived all of its life out of sight of sunlight and under the truck. With the Belgian experience of travelling at 10 mph down truly awful roads, I got home and decided to call it a day. Two weeks later I had Pewsey Carnival to go to and I was now trying to get some boots to fit onto the wheel rims. I’d got some older tyres from over Banbury way, so all I needed was an inner tube and we’d be back in business. Went to the local tyre place and they just wouldn’t entertain even looking at the old (new) tyre let alone fitting it! Now I was in a quandary – 7.50 x 20 tyres are pretty difficult to get in the UK and Europe, as we stopped using the old standard sizes some 20 years ago. Now this was a bit of a problem as I had tried before to get tyres for the old vehicle, but had failed miserably and bearing in mind that if two tyres were going to blow out then the remainder were liable to do the same thing. I found Tructyre in Winchester and gave them a call. “Yes” was the answer, “we can get 7.50 x 20’s but there will be a three to five week waiting time” “Ah” said I “can I call you tomorrow” “Of course” was the answer. I was in a real quandary - I was trying to work in an old way – force the issue and make things happen, which as we all know just doesn’t work; all that happens is you get tired and emotional, the supplier gets fed up with you and your friends think you are a complete twat! After a bit of discussion with Linda, I came to the conclusion that if I called someone else to take the place of me in the carnival, then the pressure would be off me and I could restore the wheels at my own pace and make them look pretty before the tyres went on. I phoned up and left a message on Graham’s phone to ask him if he could do the job. The pressure was off now and I called Tructire and spoke to Mark saying could he get the tyres and give me a price on them that would be agreeable to both of us. “The wait might be a bit less,” said Mark, “but give me a call tomorrow and I’ll let you know when they’ll arrive”. Heck, things are beginning to look up and all because I let go of the outcome and took the pressure off the organ and me. I started putting the vehicle up on blocks and took the wheels off. What if the truck should fall off the blocks? What? All fairground rides live on blocks when being used so why should it fall over – take the fear out and do it anyway! The wheels came off with the minimum of fuss and later I phoned Mark up and he told me that the tyres could be there the next Thursday. “What? Bloody Fantastic” so I went ahead and cleaned up all of the tyre centres and found a local paint manufacturer HMG in Andover who managed to match up the colours that were already on the vehicle. Wednesday came along and the tyres were there – I took them down in the car and left them to be sorted out by the boys at Tructyre in Winchester. The next day I went down and found them doing the last one. Looking at the rims, it seems that with split rim tyres, the water gets into them and of course rusting takes place so they were having to needle the corrosion off before fitting. I also found out that few split rims are used nowadays, so these awkward tyres were also being used for the newer fitters to get some experience on. With the tyres now fitted, it was time to get them home and fit them to the lorry. Remember, if you do this, don’t put the final coat of paint onto the wheel as the split rims have to be removed and all of the hard work will be wasted. With the tyres back home, I knew that I was going to be able to get to Pewsey, so gave a call to Graham to say that it was ok and I could got to the show. Funnily enough, he hadn’t called me so left another message, this time on his landline answer phone; it was only then that I realised that he had changed his number so he never received the original message! With all of the paint on and help from No 1 son to get them back on, I was able to get to the show without any problem. Were they expensive? Well the answer is if I had had a further blow-out, I wouldn’t have been able to get the truck home which would mean getting a low loader out and would have cost me a lot more than money so relatively speaking, no and now I have peace of mind and know that I can drive off to any venue and not have the risk of another blowout due to the old age of the tyres. For further details re tyres http://www.tructyre.co.uk/homepage.htm and for the Paint that will be matched exactly http://www.hmgpaint.com/welcome/ U tube and a couple of memory joggers Casey Jones Credits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPFBDONZyvc&eurl Casey Jones End Credits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UVCFoovIIk&mode=related&search= Casey Junior (now this one’s fun) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEH_LIXIUkg&mode=related&search= This one was removed from most video storage facilities because the powers that be thought we couldn’t handle a bit of humour…after much searching, I’ve found it.. Prank Call http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t7vRXlZgC4 Following on from the Prank Call… I’m told that in France a couple of weeks ago, a teacher decided to ask the children to bring something old and interesting into school. The next day, all of the class brought something in until one girl opened up her box. The school had to be evacuated instantly! The reason? She’d brought in an unexploded WW2 hand grenade! Back to normal stuff Mt Washington Railway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlFK6U9UurA Mt Washington http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afBOdwb-loQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hK3gTFKUNk&mode=related&search= Here’s another Utube look-alike http://blip.tv/ For still photographs of various events etc, then go to http://www.flickr.com/ and type in your choices to see. Due to circumstances, I’ve found this site that helps you understand the gobbledygook that the legal profession like to blind us with Legal Terms http://www.duhaime.org/diction.htm Driving Miss Daisy (the Steam Engine) Here’s a nice little book that is easily readable, full of photographs and will help us keep our steam engines on the roads for a few more years to come. Driving and Operating Traction Engines By Mike Dyson mailto:mike@mandmdyson.wanadoo.co.uk also available for postage overseas – contact mike for costs etc. Haven Publishing, Nelson’s Lane, Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, CB6 3UH Tel. 01353 740470 H/B, 210 X 297mm, 144pp, 213 colour and 8 b/w illustrations, £25 + £3.50 P&P - ISBN 978-0-9556147-0-5 Driving and Operating Traction Engines has 220 excellent photographs many of which are annotated explaining how the engines work with masses of information about driving the engines. There are chapters about different types of traction engines. The agricultural engine is described with information about all the major parts starting with the boiler and moving on to highlight the differences between single cylinder engines, compounds and the unusual variations of single crank compounds and expansion engines. Each aspect of the agricultural engine is illustrated with unusual photographs showing everything from close-ups of every major part from mud-hole doors to safety valves. Not only is there information about how they work but also how the engine is driven on the road and used to drive machinery such as thrashing machines. Ploughing engines, road locomotives, steam tractors, steamrollers and miniature engines are dealt with in a similar way with the emphasis always on driving the engine. It is good to see the inclusion of miniatures as there are new ones appearing all the time. Each of these chapters has large annotated photographs of the footplate and motion of each type of engine so the reader can easily compare and gain an understanding of how they are driven. Chapters about boiler management start with the relationship of water and steam beginning with the pressure gauge and ending with what has to be done should disaster strike if there is a leakage of steam from either a mud-hole door joint or the filler plug. The photograph of a dismantled injector certainly makes it easier to understand how it works. The importance of the flow of air through the fire is explained and how clinker can so easily upset the process of combustion. Further chapters about lubrication cover all the usual methods of oiling but also included is an interesting explanation on what to do should a bearing overheat. Driving at rallies is described with a lot of useful information on the thorny topic of competency and how driving experience can be obtained. So often what should happen to an engine at the end of a day’s steaming is neglected but here there are many useful hints on how the engine should be left. Driving on the road includes all the problems of trying to manoeuvre a traction engine through modern traffic. Ascending hills is usually a spectacular sight but descending a hill can be fraught with all sorts of problems and these are all mentioned. The final chapters feature the less glamorous side of operating a traction engine with details on washing out the boiler and preparing the engine for winter hibernation. Boiler inspections are featured including the hydraulic test. Maintenance is not dealt with in great detail. However, it does include useful topics such as renewing gaskets, packing glands, re-leading fusible plugs, adjusting bearings, re-fitting broken gauge glasses, expanding leaking boiler tubes, etc. The detailed photographs of the various stages of the valve gear inside the valve chest once again make it possible to understand how adjustments can be made to the timing. The photographs of inside the valve chest make it clear how it works which proves the point that ‘a good picture is worth a thousand words’. Mike Dyson is no armchair enthusiast as he has owned an engine for over twenty years and drives his engine regularly on the road. He does not have an engineering background but he has learnt a lot over the years. Technical terms are avoided as far as possible and where they are used they are described carefully. Throughout the book there are amusing anecdotes to illustrate how an engine should or should not be handled with many based on personal experiences. If you are a traction engine enthusiast and want to know what it is like to be on the footplate driving an engine this is an ideal book for you. It is written in a very readable style for anyone interested in traction engines both full size and models, particularly those who would like to know more about how they work and how they are driven but it also has much to interest the experienced enthusiast. I have to say that with modern ways of thinking, then this book has come out just in the nick of time. From CCP Hi Boz, Here is a nice link to UTube. All about mechanical organs. http://www.youtube.com/JorisJan94 This Utube thingy is really great and for all of you who don’t have broadband, you really are missing out on a phenomenal explosion of footage. Musical Museum Brentford I notice that the Musical Museum in Brentford has moved from its old premises to a more suitable place, just around the back of the old museum. I would think that with the enthusiasm that the old place used to have, this has now been totally unleashed and most of the exhibits can now be seen fully in an appropriate setting. For more information, please go to http://www.musicalmuseum.co.uk/ The Compton Theatre organ in Haarlem is almost ready. Just to let you all know, the Compton Theatre Organ is now ready and being played quite successfully, however the first official concert will be on 3 November 2007. They made a nice website for it as well. See http://www.comptonhaarlem.nl/engels/index.htm For those who don’t know, but most of the theatre organs in the Netherlands were destroyed and this is one of not many operating in the country. The Foundation at the Haarlem Kunkels collection has incorporated the instrument in their new building. Cornelis Ruijgvoorn tells me that on Saturday (6th October), they are having a try out of the instrument for its inaugural concert. Should be interesting. Lest we Forget John Hobbs 1933-2007 An appreciation by Vintage Spirit editor Brian Gooding A shock went through the preservation movement in mid-September when the news broke that John Hobbs had died suddenly at the age of 74. Although John was a regular letter writer to this magazine and an occasional contributor, albeit under a nom-de-plume, he was instrumental in getting the current preservation magazines off the ground. John was a prolific contributor to Old Glory, having been involved with me at the rebirth of that magazine back in 1989 following its launch and cancellation after one issue in 1988. John was a regional director for Lloyds Bank and had written to the previous publishers in glowing terms about the magazine’s potential. Having negotiated to take over the magazine, rather despondent having been turned down for a start up loan by my own bankers of almost 20 years, I came across John’s letter in a file I had been given. It was the phrase “as a bank manager. . . “ that caught my eye, so a letter was sent off to John immediately. Within 48 hours, not only had he been on the phone promising help, but the business manager local to me had been on to organise a meeting. They say great oaks from little acorns grow, but sometimes they need help; John was that help and the rest is history. Although I now edit Vintage Spirit in competition with Old Glory, John and I had become good friends and letters and phone calls were regular over the ensuing 18 years and I was always made very welcome when I dropped in, sometimes unannounced, on John and Thelma at their home then in Tavistock. Over the years, John shared his amazing knowledge on a wide variety of subjects and I well remember travelling to Coventry Airport to meet him when we decided to jointly visit Air Atlantique to look at their fascinating fleet of classic aircraft. His father was manager of the River Dart Steamboat Company and John proudly showed me a paddlebox cover he had from one of the Castles that plied the river, a sister to the preserved and very active Kingswear Castle, now on the Medway in Kent. John had a collection of classic cars, Austin mainly, and a huge collection of Toby Jugs; he was incredibly knowledgeable on a wide range of subjects which he researched avidly, particularly after his retirement in 1990. Although his career was in banking, he spent his student summers as a conductor on buses in south Devon and from here developed a love of buses; perhaps this engendered his love of all forms of transport. John’s funeral was held at Taunton Deane Crematorium on 14th September and John Atkinson’s Burrell Gold Medal Tractor fittingly led in the procession, with John driving and John Wakeham steering; Peter Cooper led the procession. Although a sad occasion, with standing room only, the family was determined that this was to be a celebration of John’s life and indeed it was. Tributes were paid by son-in-law Neil Swain and Old Glory’s Colin Tyson, both of which gave those present a detailed insight into the life of a man who had been far from idle during his life. Many could have passed John in the street and not known who he was, but his impact on the preservation world as a whole was great. Born in Bridgwater, John was the eldest of three, brother Tony and sister Anne. John met his wife, Thelma, when he was 17 and they celebrated their Golden Wedding earlier this year. They have a son, Nick (married to Carolyn with two sons) and two daughters, Jo (married to Nick with three sons and a daughter) and Amanda (married to Andy with two sons and a daughter). You are all in our thoughts. My thanks to Jo for her help with some of the family details; she describes herself as “a very proud daughter”. And she has real reason to be. John helped me to have almost 20 years of real pleasure at the sharp end of heritage publishing, which I have thoroughly enjoyed, and I cherish his support and advice freely given. John, you were a true friend; I will miss you too. Brian Gooding As a postscript, I would like to say that without John, I doubt that the preservation movement would have had such a healthy supply of magazines and information to digest. On more than one occasion, John had helped me out when I was in a fix – such was the generosity of the man. Our heartfelt thanks and thoughts go to his friends and family. www.vintagespirit.co.uk Len Prior It seems as if it were only yesterday that I was last working with him at the Child Beale Wildlife Park. I’d been approached to lay the track and then run the 7¼” gauge railway for Public use. Well, as the track got longer and finally joined up and made a circuit, it got to a point where I needed someone to whom I could rely upon. In came Bob who had been the brains in making much of the ancillary stuff actually work like water towers etc. Well Bob’s father Len fitted the bill. In fact we hit it off straight away and Len became more of a surrogate father than anything else, but also helped me with all of the paperwork, administration as well as driving and being a great person with whom I could converse about all manner of things. Highly skilled, yet totally modest and a great sense of humour. We send out thoughts and condolences to his friends and family. The cremation is 12.30 at Caversham on Wednesday 10th From Derek Rayner UK I understand from my contact at Lincolnshire Archives that there may be some money forthcoming so that they can catalogue the presently unlisted part of the records of the firms of Aveling & Porter, Aveling-Barford and Barford & Perkins , presently kept under their 'Aveling-Barford Collection'. http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/archives/googleResults.asp?client=LCC&site=Councillors%7CEvents%7CLibraries%7COrganisations%7CPages%7CPlacesOfWorship%7CSchools%7CTherapists%7CVenues%7CParishes&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&output=xml_no_dtd&filter=0&getfields=description&num=10&q=Aveling&btnG=GO I have been asked if I can elicit support from interested members of the traction engine and road roller fraternity (in the widest sense of the words) who might benefit from the use of such archives in the future and the ability to access them in a better way than at present. We have been asked to write to Lincolnshire Archives expressing our support for such a bid for funding to enable the proposed cataloguing exercise to proceed if their bid is successful. Letters should be addressed to Nick Kingsley ("Dear Mr Kingsley,"), but it would be appreciated if people could address the envelope to the name and address below, so that they can collected together for forwarding en masse to the eventual recipient. Adrian Wilkinson Lincolnshire Archives St Rumbold Street Lincoln LN2 5AB. Can you please pass this on to others who may be able to help? Thanking you, Derek A Rayner Train breaks Record Not that difficult to break this record I hasten to add, as the railway network from the Channel Tunnel in the UK to London was awful and the high speed Channel Tunnel train had to negotiate local trains on the same line! Now, due to a very important piece of investment, we currently have a railway line that can get a person from central Paris to London St Pancras in just two hours (4th September 2007). This rather rubbed salt into the wound of the average rail traveller bearing in mind that the London Underground staff were on strike on the same day and a short journey of a mere10 miles was taking well over the record 2 hours! http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=508&id=1076592003 Which brings me neatly onto going overseas The season is now in the final ebbs of get-togethers in the UK, so for those of you who are pining for something to do during the long hours of darkness, then all hope is not lost. November 9th 2007 Four Days Holland France Interested in Mechanical Music? Well the Mechanical Organ Owner’s Society (MOOS) is doing its annual jaunt overseas – this year to Holland and France and is popping into various collections that mostly aren’t open to the Public. If you want to join up and meet other like minded people, then please get in touch with Mark Jefford on mark@nle.demon.co.uk who will furnish you with a booking form. Be quick though as it is booking up fast. Again the places have been sourced out by our intrepid traveller Peter Craig who will also be on the tour to tell you what you will be seeing and give a potted history about the instruments. January 11th Five Days Sinsheim If you miss getting onto the MOOS trip, then there is the Annual Model Engineering Exhibition down in Sinsheim in Southern Germany. World famous for having steam locomotives driving around inside vast exhibition halls on a 5+-kilometre track, it is also full of stalls selling wares that you might find that elusive part or person who can help you start or maybe finish a job that you might be doing. Trains, road steam, boats and everything in between too. It doesn’t stop there either, the tour is designed to keep people occupied if they want as well and there are plenty of excursions to various collections in a reasonable radius from the exhibition. I would point out that apart from the excursions, the twin transport museums of Sinsheim and Speyer are also on the trip. In my mind, they are possibly the most accessible and comprehensive places to visit if you want to see how a museum ought to look like. Further information, then please contact Martin Cook on martinelizabeth.cook@btinternet.com Join the tour by train, coach or fly. June 2008 Waldkirch Another Organ one and this time in the Black Forest. Yes the famous Waldkirch Organ Gathering is back again after its three year break and the theme this year is Paris in Waldkirch, so Paris is being incorporated onto the long tour. Many of the French builders also had an outpost in this organ building area – hence the name “Black Forest Gavioli” etc, and the German contingent want to bring this to the fore. Well all I have to say, is with this in mind, the Waldkirch tour is a real cracker and for those of you, who want to know more, then please let me know and I’ll send you out an itinerary and booking form. tours@historyinharmony.com for the “Paris in Waldkirch, Waldkirch to Paris Trip” Remember that you can fly, go by train or coach and there will be the usual long tour or for those who just want to be there for the show itself, there is the short tour possibly escorted by one of our lovely girls! Want some Steamy Stuff? Dordt in Stoom May 2008 Dordrecht in Stoom is the answer. Well known as a lovely medieval town, every two years the sounds of steam boats, traction engines, cars, bikes, Steam Trains, thrashing, shanty singers, bars and goodness only knows what ever else is there. The show is based around the confluence of possibly the most busiest canal network in Europe and somehow they manage to get steamboats to operate in this melange of shipping! It really has to be seen to be believed. Any excursions? Of course there – you wouldn’t expect any less, so but let me know and I’ll send you out an itinerary and booking form. Fly, coach or train, it is up to you. Hope these whet your whistle, if anything else comes along, I’ll let you know. Now for a bit of fun over in Belgium Geraardsbergen 2007. http://www.hooghuysfestival.be Yes due to an oversight and memory loss from the organising committee of last year, Sharahazad was invited back to the festival again! It was a great journey, but due to last year’s Police involvement with my return and the thought of meeting the same Copper again, on this occasion, we took to the smaller roads. Unfortunately for the Flemish part of Belgium, so much traffic passes through the country, that the road menders are on a continual repairing mission to keep the traffic flowing which means that the other roads just don’t get the attention that they justly deserve – this left me to travel along some of the lesser roads at a mere 10 to 15mph so that the organ wouldn’t be shaken to bits. We arrived in the town and were welcomed back into the fold again with open arms on the Thursday night –we then got reacquainted with the Flemish hospitality again and I think it was about 2am when we finally got into bed. The next day was a check through the organ to make sure that all was well. Strangely enough, I had this thought that as the organ had been built in Belgium, then why should it not be hardened to Belgian roads and true to form, the instrument was perfect – nothing broken and definitely not out of tune which firstly continues to show me that the engineering and musicianship of Mr Louis Hooghuys was excellent and that the tuning and maintenance that Paul McCarthy does for me, is up to the same standard. http://www.hooghuys.com/english/theorgans/fairorgans.htm That evening was the speeches and if I was called upon to do the same I had got my first sentence Maar ik ben wel wakker (no matter what you may think, at least I am still awake) to start of with before I got stuck into rambling on about something or other. Fortunately for all concerned I didn’t have to speak as that may have gone down like a lead balloon and maybe caused the start of an intergalactic warfare between Belgium and myself. The next day was a gathering of many of the Organ Speelers so a dinner and get- together took place, to later adjourn to the office opposite the church and up the hill from the original http://www.belgiumview.com/belgiumview/tl3/view0004235.php4 Mannekin Pis – another 2am finish. The day of the show was again a momentous occasion with us meeting old friends from last year and the making of new ones this time. It was also rather special for me as the organ this time, was back outside the old workshop where it had been conceived and built a full century ago and on this occasion, was playing into the building’s façade – yes 100 years ago this instrument was wheeled out into the sunshine on the 8th February 1907 and here it was again a century later hopefully playing as good as it came out of the factory. The pride that exuded out of all of us was pretty powerful, so much so that the building next door is a local bank and they were having a get together for all of their customers and at one point, the bank owner telephoned their son to get his backside over from the other side of the country and come and listen to the organ. Rarely do I ever put the whole of the façade up, as I like to keep the sun off the front, however I was facing the right way and could put it all up. We had a shower but nothing too bad and the whole town was heaving again to the sounds of mechanical organs with a whole host of the family Hooghuys making themselves known to us as well as former family owners of the organ and hopefully I will get a photograph of the organ actually in the original ride. I’m told that this is possibly the only one ever taken of it so can’t wait – its taken 40 years to see this picture. Luc Bal, the organiser who some of you know, also had a line drawing of the organ and truck commissioned and we were able to get people to sign it and it is now a memento of a great birthday celebration and soon to be framed and hung in a good place. Many notable faces from the Continent were there supporting the show and the organs – far too many to mention, however it was good to see talk and enjoy each other’s company once again. The organ played perfectly all day and from what I saw, the town was back to the “walking on heads” amount of people enjoying the organs and town again. With the shops open and doing a fantastic trade, all I could do was admire all of the organisation that went into staging the whole event and making all of the public who came into town excited and wanting more. The town has many events throughout the year, but this is one of the biggest and totally devoid of any politics, which is a novelty in the preservation world. Talking of novelties…. a new society is in the embryo stages of starting in Belgium and bearing in mind that Decap Antwerp http://decap-gebr-antwerp.com/ and Decap Herentals http://www.decap-herentals.be/company.htm are still out there building all types of organs as well as the Jonny Verbeeck factory http://www.j-verbeeck.com/engels/homeengl.htm refurbishing and restoring instruments to mention but a few, then this is very fitting that this country should start their own! Again, I didn’t have the time to really go out and see that much of the festival, as I wanted to meet as many people as I could, however Rudy Nijs, who sponsored Sharahazad on behalf of the Haarlem Organ Foundation http://www.draaiorgelmuseum.org/engels.htm also had fun at the keyframe of the organ, plus a couple of others. 7 o’clock came and it was time to close up and put the organ back into the sanctuary of the music conservatoire and then go and finally meet up with our fellow organ grinders before going home. Luc did a nice speech regarding my escapades last year of breaking down and sending International Rescue to my aid as well as getting done for speeding, much to the amusement of the assembled boys and girls. We had a final meeting at the office opposite the mighty Church and went to a long overdue night’s sleep. The next day, we set off in good time http://www.transeuropaferries.co.uk/ for the ferry to Ramsgate along the minor roads, however this time we took the more major route and the roads were significantly improved compared to the outward journey, however true to form, the organ didn’t want to go home and we had a blowout on one of the rear tyres just before Bruges. Fortunately we were not on the motorway so were able to change the wheel without interference from any prying Plod on a small triangle of unused road. We set off and arrived in Oostende but even though we had ¼ hour to spare, we couldn’t get onto the ferry, so decided to trundle off to Blankenburg and do a bit of sightseeing and have a bit of lunch. A strange looking soup and a Mediterranean Salad that had two lumps if cheese wrapped up in bacon looking more like a film starlets breast implants wasn’t too inspiring, however it tasted fine and filled the hole. We got back to the ferry port and went through Customs – the officers were on high alert due to our political people having games at our expense, however thank goodness for the security people. They were pleased to see one of the organs that had been in the TV from the festival in Geraardsbergen and let us through. The journey across the sea was uneventful (for me) as I slept most of the way to arrive in Ramsgate and got through the Customs thorough checking again. I do take my hat off to these people for doing quite a thankless task on both sides of the Channel. We got on the road again and set off towards home. The old Ford was flying on our level and bump free main roads for us to get to just past Basingstoke, when horror of all horrors, the tyre that I put on earlier did a spectacular bang. Fortunately at that time of night, there is little traffic so we carried on with a flat tyre and the other one supporting all of the weight of the vehicle at a steady 15mph, which brought back memories of doing the same speed when arriving into Geraardsbergen! As the old saying goes “Never a dull moment” I am now in the process of getting hold of some 7.50X20 tyres that seem to not exist in the UK anymore, however are used extensively in Asia and Australia, so am having to wait for three weeks for some new ones to be shipped over. What a palaver, however since I wrote this, I’ve got new tyres and they are slowly being painted when I have the time. Thanks to all concerned out in Geraardsbergen, the ferry company and grateful thanks to the lack of Police on my journey out there and back, asking the usual damn fool, stupid questions! Me on my Soapbox Do you remember when so called Global Warming or the newer and trendier Climate Change title didn’t cut much ice throughout the world because no politician could make money out of it? Well it seems that the tables have been turned because I see that our wonderfully uncorrupted administrators of law and order in this country (sic) have just managed to screw out of the population £29 BILLION in so-called green taxes. (Yes 29 Billion pounds Sterling!) Remember that the previous Chancellor (now our unelected leader) also loaded up our aircraft taxes and still hasn’t used the money raised for any GREEN issues (whatever they might be). Now if this small little country can screw so much out of us the population of the Untied (formerly United) Kingdom, then have a look in your own back yard folks! Yes Ladies and Gentlemen, Global Warming only started when they found a load of sheep and media to spread the news and make money. Remember that we ALL recycled our bits and pieces until the mid 60’s and then when our leaders dropped import duties on foreign goods and undercut all of our own manufacturing industry’s prices, recycling completely went out of the window – I leave the rest to your own conclusion. It gets even better - I see that the BBC (I could have said “well respected” there, but feel that statement is now well open to debate especially on phone ins) in its climate change series of programmes is hiring a private cinema to show American Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth http://www.climatecrisis.net/ *** to 500 civil servants. Unfortunately in all propaganda (and remember that we have past knowledge of this form of truth bending, from two world wars) this is only one side to the story. The BBC, still sponsored by the UK government and us via taxes, seemed unable to screen the other side to the story with Martin Durkin’s The Great Global Swindle. http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/ Ah well… you can fool all of the people some of the time etc…. *** Just a thought – when I went to find both titles on the Internet, The Inconvenient Truth jammed up my machine – I wonder what that means? Now here’s a bit of a Universe Footprint – that is if you want to believe all of the hype.. Sputnik Just 20 years after the Hindenburg went up in flames, the Russian space boffins launched Sputnik (or fellow traveller) on 4th October 1957. The small metal satellite weighing about 100lbs orbited the world every 90 minutes and sent out a continuous short wave bleep-bleep-bleep signal, that could be also picked up on you own common or garden valve radio that took a mere 15 minutes to warm up so that you could receive the “This is the BBC British Home Service, broadcasting on the light radio waves…blah-blah-beep-bleep-beep” http://www.zarya.info/Diaries/Sputnik/Sputnik.php It could not be seen during the daylight hours with the naked eye, however on a clear dark night, it could be seen as a small silver dot traversing across the blackened sky -this was in fact the rocket’s silver coated body reflecting the light. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sputnik/ Amazingly, at the time we were still running steam locomotives on the railways, steam rollers were still being used to make and surface roads with the tri tandem steam Robey being used to help make our first motorway, jet engines were still in their infancy and not regularly being used for passenger flights, mobile phones were a thing of dreams and governments were making rash decisions, so no change there. A bit of background History Even though the Russians were the first to send a satellite into space, the real start and father of the space race was a German Wernher von Braun who had a dream of space flight. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAbraun.htm In order to facilitate this, in 1937 he joined the Nazi Party to get the necessary funding. Three years later he accepted an invitation to join the SS – this he did and I guess this also increased the funding for the rocket project that ultimately produced the sophisticated V-2 rocket http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3634212.stm that did so much damage to London and throughout so much of the British Isles. In fact one exploded just a couple of miles from where I live; the bomb landed in a cow pasture and only managed to blow up a few cowpats instead of the intended banknote factory two miles in the other direction. Not bad really when you think about it from a launch pad in Europe to within three or four miles. It is only now that satellite navigation can pinpoint a target to within four metres – oh the things that come out of necessity. In 1945 after WW2 in the Harz Mountains in Germany, Private John Galione found a place piled high with dead bodies looking like skeletons with skin wrapped around them…….. at the same time, a tunnel into the mountain; he’d actually found Mittlewerk, the giant subterranean V-2 factory. http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Air_Power/Missiles/AP29.htm It turned out the dead were the slave labourers that were needed to do all of the work in the myriad of tunnels into the mountain. The American HQ also realised that the information in these tunnels was needed to go into space and had to be removed, and fast as this area to soon to be part of the Soviet Occupation Zone. Some 1 million square feet of caverns connecting the factory’s two miles of assembly lines was cleaned out and during the clean up operation, they also hit the jackpot with piles of component parts and several intact V-2 rockets. By the time the Russian army had arrived on July 14th, Mittelwerk was virtually empty of all hardware. Of course, not everything could be removed in the time and places like woodpiles, attics, sheds and other unlikely places left quite a few clues as to what had been going on as well as how to build a V-2 rocket. The bit that was missing for the Soviets though were the many scientists that went to the US as part of the Space Programme, enticed by plenty of funding and financial rewards. Even though these scientists had caused so much destruction, it was imperative to have them, so upon immigration to the US many did not have to go through passport or customs control, such was the shame and in the case of von Braun, his military files remained classified until 1982, a full seven years after his death. On reflection, things are different nowadays, but I would think that then the stigma would have been so much different and quite a cross to bare. Funny how it seems to always happen, but one person in one country always seems to be counteracted by another in another country and this was to be no exception. Stalin enslaved many people, just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and one of these was an engineer Sergei Korolev, http://www.russianspaceweb.com/korolev.html however due to Hitler’s advance into Russia during WW2, all engineers were released. Strange how one country should start something off in two differing countries at roughly the same time – is that co creation? Anyway Sergei Korolov was to become the chief designer at N11-88, http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/icbm/930600-cruise.htm the USSR’s top-secret research facility. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sputnik/korolev.html In 1956, Nicolai Khrushchev met Korolov and they spoke about a strategic imbalance of nuclear weapons between the USSR and the USA – it was here that the R-7 rocket, that could travel 5,000 miles at over 24,000 feet per second and Khrushchev gave the go ahead to put nuclear warheads on the nose and test them. Fortunately, for the rest of us, the boffins actually used dummy ones otherwise we’d all be toast by now! A launch date of January 1957 had to be rescheduled a number of times as inaccuracies reared their heads until out in the Kazakhstan Desert, an R-7 was finally launched; 98 seconds later it exploded into a multitude of small pieces; the next one failed to get itself off the launch pad – serious problems and setbacks, however to succeed in this life, failure is necessary to find out the faults. http://www.russianspaceweb.com/r7.html On August 31st, an R-7 powered out of the Earth’s Atmosphere, travelling all the way to the Bering Sea, right to its target – finally after so much hardship for so many, the Earth’s Atmosphere had been violated. Even though the R-7 had gone out into the atmosphere, it still wasn’t much of an achievement, however, while Khrushchev had noticed a satellite lurking in the corner of the shed with four aerials sticking out of it – he realised that if this small but effective device could actually be launched into the atmosphere, it would have enormous political potential and dent the ego of the opposition without any need for war. On Friday October 4th, 1957 at 22.20hrs, the R-7 launch button was depressed allowing the nitrogen to ignite and start the most amazing journey into space exploration. Shortly after launch, the signal was received from Sputnik – the result was a phenomenal success with the satellite successfully being released from the nose cone and the mother rocket being jettisoned. A few dented ego’s later and the whole episode was classed as a propaganda circus, however the Media cottoned onto it straight away. The Space Race had started – new journeys of discovery and a whole new exciting vast area to be explored (but do forget about your carbon footprint!). http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal114/gal114.htm The American reply from the German and American scientists was the launch of Vanguard – it took off a few feet and then burst into flames, returning back from whence it came as a piled-up crumpled, chaotic heap of scrap. A couple more attempts later, however it was to be the 31st January 1958 when Juno, the American reply gracefully lifted itself into the skies and gave them their own satellite. The space race had finally taken off and strangely enough with loads of British technology helped it on its way but as I’ve already written about that one in a previous edition of the Update, you’ll have to search the records for that one. Partying in Berkshire Nick Barker had a great idea – “lets have a party and anyone who had a toy to bring along was welcome”. Possibly not his real words, but they’ll do. All I can say is that there were plenty of people with really nice toys driving them all over the local counties near to the Berkshire/Wiltshire border where Nick and Erica live. What a breath of fresh air it was too - a road run into the local town of Hungerford and meeting up on the Hungerford Common http://www.hungerford.uk.net/ and having a hearty lunch and then a run back to the farm. I must admit that I had wanted to go too with the organ, but due to two blowouts on the tyres on the recent return from Belgium, I just couldn’t get the damn thing there without wheels, however as Nick said “It really doesn’t matter about the organ, it’s you we really want”. Rather splendid arrays of steamers were there. In the steamy department, two Burrell tractors, a Foster, a Burrell Show engine, two agricultural engines Marshall and Hornsby, a Tasker, a Garrett and finally to top it all off a Marenghi Fair organ to lighten up the proceedings plus motorcycles, tractors, tree felling equipment and lots of other stuff. Funnily enough, the party brought back memories of the many parties that took place in the 60’s where people just came along to have a bit of fun and meet each other. The party also had a great local music band playing into the early hours of the morning. The next day a short road run along a nice bit of undulating landscape making friends with plenty of the local inhabitants took place and all in the beautiful late autumn sunshine. You just can’t beat it can you! They said it couldn’t be done It’s not often that you hear of an amazing turn of speed, especially in the Preservation Movement – the Howard Brothers were one such example when they totally rebuilt their Fowler Show Engine Renown is a ridiculously short time (see Jumper Books ad elsewhere in this Update), however you will have heard me ramble on about the famous Carter’s Steam Fair. At the end of August, the Tidman centre engine that drives the Gallopers (Carousel) had a slight weep in the firebox and rather than patch it up, it was decided to take it out of service and put a new box into it. The Howard Brothers took their own Gallopers to join the Carter’s fairground while the fair’s own machine was out of service. Jimmer Marsh took the engine off the ride and then took it to pieces. The engine was then taken to David Bicknell’s Boiler Works near to Liphook in Hampshire, the old box taken out and a new one put in. The boiler was then tested and the engine put back together and the whole lot was working again in just over five weeks and earning its keep! Is that a record? I do know that in the days of commercial steam, there was a place, if memory serves me correctly in London somewhere, where they would take in a Foden lorry, rebuild the engine, boilers or whatever else needed to be done with the minimum of time, and the vehicle would be out back at work earning its keep. Pewsey Carnival http://www.pewsey-uk.co.uk/ The next weekend, after getting my new tyres brought in especially from Shanghai were retrieved from Tructyre in Winchester for the lorry and quickly painted and then fitted and later on that day, I took the old vehicle off to Pewsey Carnival for its regular feature in the centre of the town. Again, all of the locals were saying how pleased that the organ was back again in pride of place in the town and with plenty of floats passing by the organ, there was one person who asked if I had the music from Operation Amsterdam. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053140/ Well folks, I still haven’t heard or seen the movie, so don’t know what the music actually sounds like, but if anyone can do me a tape, I’d be grateful and then maybe I can mark it out for the organ and see if I can do it justice. http://www.britishpictures.com/photos2/photo121.htm Duff Roads I’ve spoken about the roads in this country and saying that really with over 2,000 years of road construction, we really ought to be able to make something better. Well as many of you know I went to Belgium and found out about their roads. Well over there, the good roads are really excellent, but the bad roads are equally the opposite, but at least you do know where you stand. Here, you might get a decent road and then all of a sudden there is either a pothole that can’t be missed or a badly laid trench that has been filled in with no eye to continuity. Yes it’s all about money, but if the councils actually made the roads correctly, then I am sure that their costs of maintenance would decrease accordingly. Crofton Beam Engines Bi Centennial Not far from Nick’s Party is the oldest working beam engine in its original location at Crofton, nearby to Great Bedwyn. Now back in 1807, the building for the beam engines was completed and as a way of saying “thank you” to firstly the volunteers for making the Crofton engines live and breath again and another “thank you” to Nick for having the party a couple of weeks previously, I took the organ over to the show to give a bit of light musical relief. Now the area isn’t to large so with four full-sized steamers, plus motorcycles, cars, models and a whole host of other paraphernalia, we managed to get the organ sited at the front of the building so that it faced out towards the Kennett & Avon canal for which the beam engines were originally built. Normally people see the smoke gently wafting from the rebuilt chimney and make a gentle wander up from the canal, but on this occasion, they could see that there was plenty going on. All I can say is that the restaurant staff were quite overwhelmed with the business being made and were unable to have any breaks in the day at all, so I guess that they made a nice financial killing, which all helps to keep an icon of two centuries ago living and breathing. Talking of two centuries, I felt it necessary to take something of 100 years ago to show differences in manufacture and of course I am ¼ of the age of Crofton Beam engines. Nice to see a geometric curve of 50! Yes my mind works in very strange ways. http://www.croftonbeamengines.org/intro.html or email eqcr59103@CroftonBeamEngines.org Gobbledygook Now here’s a word that looks just as it sounds – total rubbish and guess what, the word can actually be pinpointed right to its origin. On March 30th 1944, Maury Maverick was a congressman serving as Chairman on the United States Smaller War Plants Corporation wrote a memo to all his staff banning what he called gobbledygook language and went on the say that “anyone using the words activation or implementation would be shot” Later when the word was used by other people, Maverick explained that the word was based on the sounds that turkeys used which was always “gobbledy gobbling and then strutting around with ludicrous pomposity. At the end of his gobble, there was always a sort of gook”. Well all I can say is that 63 years later, nothing seems to have changed! Looking in the Thesaurus it comes up with nonsense, waffle, jargon, gibberish, mumbo jumbo and drivel. I couldn’t agree more especially as I sometimes look at what has been written here and think the same way. Old Mill Inn Not far from the Fawley Fuel Refinery is a lovely old pub where for a few years now there is an end of season get-together run basically by Ian Pooley and Mark Wilson. They seem to get plenty of people with their bits and pieces together to have a great road run and social natter. It is based within the confines of the beautiful New Forest and there is a statutory road run that gets into the highways and byways of the county of Hampshire and also travels along the shoreline of the South Coast. Again it is a lovely fun day out and in the evening there is a line up of the engines (how they are going to fit them all in as I am advised me that there could be up to 40 full sized steamers in attendance!) plus a firework show and goodness only knows whatever else going on. If you are bored and got nothing to do or maybe just want to meet up with a bunch of funsters, then there are plenty of boarding houses nearby so you can stay the night and enjoy the frivolities. For more information please read on… Holbury End of Season Get Together 19th to 21st October Mark asked me to send you some info. Included below is the information sent out about the event together with a list of engines as of now and a brief programme of events. Any queries call me on 07831 351418. Exhibitors So Far Engine Name Type David Foden 6” Lorry Monty Fowler A4 Traction Engine Earl Beatty Burrell Scenic Showman Britannia Marshall Road Locomotive May Queen 5 Tonne Showman’s Burrell Tractor King George VI Showman’s Road Locomotive Volunteer Fowler A8 Agricultural Nellie Wallis and Stevens 7NHP Louis Portable Samantha Foden Lorry Little Olga 3 Tonne Wallis and Steevens Tractor Reeder Express Wallis and Stevens 7NHP General Purpose Titian Burrell 6” Traction Engine Little Lucy Aveling and Porter Steam Tractor Ivor Burrell 4” Agricultural Tractor Engine Trixy 3” Fowler Agricultural Lofty 3” Fowler Road Loco - Fowler Charlie B Burrell Agricultural 6NHP Teddy 7” Fowler Steam Wagon Ex Mayor Showman’s Scenic Burrell Stella Aveling and Porter 3” Traction Engine General Wolfe Ransomes, Simms and Jefferies His Grace Foster Wellington Tractor Island Chief Foden ‘D’ Type Tractor Earl Kitchener Burrell Showman’s Engine Unnamed 4” Fowler Showman Princess Victoria 5 Tonne Showman Sir Lionel Foden Tanker Katherine 3” Mclaren Showman HMS Sultan Sentinel Steam Bus The Old Mill Steam Event 2007 Over the weekend of October 19th to 21st we are holding our 6th annual steam event in aid of CLIC (Cancer and Leukaemia in Children) at The Old Mill Inn, Lime Kiln Lane, Holbury, Southampton, SO45 2HE. The event will feature over 30 working steam engines ranging from full sized engines (some weighing up to 25 tons) down to 3-inch scale models, fairground organs, children’s entertainment and live music. The highlight of the weekend is a Road Run through the New Forest, featuring about half of the engines, taking in Hill Top Exbury, Lepe, and Gang Warily, with the engines pulling trailers full of people, accompanied by a fairground organ. The Road Run departs from The Old Mill at 10:00am and returns at about 4:00pm with a barbeque lunch on the way. Old clothes are recommended. Admission to the event is free to the public. Tickets for the Road Run are available from The Old Mill at £5.00 (adult) £2.50 (child under 14) or £10.00 (family ticket – 2 adults & 2 children under 14). All proceeds from the event go to CLIC. Over the past 5 years we have raised over £10,000. Any coverage that you can give us would be greatly appreciated as the entire event is funded by sponsorship and all the exhibitors donate their services. If you require any further information or should you wish to cover the event please contact Ian Pooley on 07831 351418 or alternatively e-mail info@esl-technical-services.co.uk. Ian Pooley - Chairman The Old Mill Steam Event Programme of activities Friday Afternoon - Arrivals Evening - Live Music - Lady Winwoods Maggot 9.00 pm Saturday Daytime - Road Run - 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Daytime - Live Music - Fiesta (Steel Band) 4.00 pm - 6.00 pm Evening - Fireworks - 8.00 pm Evening - Live Music - Awesome Foursome 9.00