A dry but chilly Sunday evening at the beginning of April found fourteen members from Essex Thameside and two friends from Suffolk – nine cars – queuing in Harwich to board the overnight ferry to the Hook of Holland. For those of us who might remember the Stena line’s ‘cattle […]
Richard Gibby
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April this year marked the centenary of the Royal Air Force and, commemorating the 100th anniversary, the RAF Museum in Hendon has been transformed with the addition of three new galleries and redeveloped grounds. 27 members of our club celebrated by visiting on a beautifully sunny October day; perfect flying […]
On Sunday 29 July, eleven cars from our club went to the Ingatestone Hall Classic Car Show , eleven years after we last attended as a club in July 2007. Ingatestone Hall is a Grade 1 listed 16th century manor house, originally built by Sir William Petrie and still occupied […]
In August I went with two Suffolk Jaguar friends from Thames Valley and Kent to a special show in Surrey, organised by a local property developer in aid of Help the Heroes. Held in the grounds of his farmhouse, about 800-1,000 cars turned up including some very rare machines. Robert […]
Best wishes to all our members for 2016, which looks to be an excellent year with some new shows, our club stand at the Silverstone Classic weekend and 19 cars travelling to Reims this summer. To start off the year, Doug Warren and I decided to attend the New Year’s […]
As mentioned at our Club Night in March, the committee proposes to offer the option of collecting annual membership subscriptions by direct debit. Arrangements have been set up with GoCardless, an online direct debit agency and, subject to confirmation at the club’s AGM, will be launched in May. Why direct […]
January saw the opening of the first ever London Classic Car Show in the Excel Centre in Docklands. Clearly, as the inaugural show, it was never going to be as large as the national Classic Motor Show each November at the NEC, which regularly attracts over 60,000 visitors; nevertheless some 25,200 […]
This year marks a little-known anniversary: 50 years since the 1964 Road Signs Regulations came into effect, on 1 January 1965, and introduced the standard signage system that we still know and love today. The designs have become classics, much copied or imitated around the world, with their now familiar black images […]
Wishing all our members a happy and prosperous year in 2015, as our club goes from strength to strength. A blue plaque like the one above is being ordered, for display at Langdon Hills Golf and Country Club, the venue for our monthly meetings. photo credit: cocoate.com via photopin cc
Every year the Goodwood Revival weekend is the highlight of my September. I’ve attended regularly for eleven years, becoming a club member from 2006. It usually benefits from Indian summer weather – I can only remember two occasions on which it was a washout – and is always a wonderful spectacle, often eventful. This year was no […]
Grace and pace, but not much space for luggage. Nevertheless a Suffolk SS100 is meant to be driven and, this June, I travelled to Spain a second time for a touring holiday with seven other Suffolk SS100’s. Organised and escorted by Classics on the Road, last year’s tour of Rioja and […]
JEC Essex Thameside AGM The club’s Annual General Meeting was held in Langdon Hills Country Golf Clubhouse on Tuesday 6 May. Chairman’s Report Since May last year, we attended the Maldon Car Show, Cressing Temple, Helmingham Festival of Classics and Sports Cars, the September meet at Battlesbridge and our own November […]
Calling all members Following the articles by Neil Shanley and Richard Gibby (plus one back in the September 2007 newsletter from David Sullivan), why not contribute something about you and your car? It need not be a long article and, perhaps, you may not think there is anything particularly special […]
Neil’s recent post Finding the Cat started with a question. Does the cat find you, or do you find the cat? In my case perhaps neither: like Dr Frankenstein, I created a new cat from a dead one. I’ve always been fascinated by cars. My mother insists that, when just 18 months old and […]