SUNDAY 2nd JULY What a day it was! The sun shone all day which brought out the masses. This show had to be the biggest turn out ever. Those members who attended as soon as the park was open at 8am, benefited from missing the later traffic congestion that occurred […]
Car Shows
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This year’s club European trip was to Laon in Northern France for the annual Circuit Historique de Laon, organised by Scenic Car Tours. The trip started for me and Neil & Elaine Wylie on Thursday 1st June as we had decided to travel the day before the official start on […]
Now in its 36th year, the Bromley Pageant of Motoring is probably the UK’s largest one-day car show. It has become an institution and boasts around 3000 vehicles, trade stands, auto jumble, club and one-make stands, car sales, special guests and…Bouncy Castles. It is one event that I have been […]
The annual ‘Jaguar World’ London to Brighton Run was changed this year to a new destination: Eastbourne. Due to various reasons including, so I hear, the increase in fees of 300% by Brighton Council for the privilege of using Madeira Drive in Brighton. The organisers arranged with Eastbourne Council to use […]
The Royal Windsor Jaguar Festival run by the national Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club was the highlight of the year, or decade? There was an excellent turn out of Jaguars and Daimlers with a beautiful backdrop of the castle. There was also a good turn out of our club members, some of […]
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 […]
Since the publication of the first part of my article on this inspiring venue in April, I have received a deluge of requests from two members asking when the next instalment of the museum trip would be published. Wait no longer, because here it comes. But, before we begin, let […]
On Thursday 9 June 2016 a number of members started their trip to Reims a day early by staying at the Holiday Inn in Folkestone, in order to be closer to the Eurotunnel on Friday morning. I worked in the morning but finished at midday. My wife, Jackie, had also […]
Faversham (in Kent) has attracted its fair share of visitors over the centuries. Crucially, it was situated at the head of a navigable creek, offering quick and easy access to Europe, pure spring water and a dry temperate climate well suited for growing crops and grazing cattle. All this lead […]
Some of you may know that Sue and I visit Seattle regularly to catch up with our eldest daughter, who lives out there on the West coast. It’s a great place to be, with an abundance of sights to see and places to go – from the futuristic Space Needle, […]
My tale begins in September 2015 when the Essex Thameside group visited Brands Hatch to watch the JEC racing group compete in a day’s racing. We had a great day, finding ourselves quite literally a fingertip away from the cars, the pits and the drivers. Ideas started to bounce around […]
Aaron is a bright 14 year-old from a school near Albany in upstate New York, USA. He has a passion for Jaguar and contacted us about his after-school project. Here is what he has written about the history of the marque and its cars, from the earliest days to the present. Thank you to […]
On 28 February some of our members and partners treated ourselves to a Sunday lunch at the Fox and Goose on the A414 near Chelmsford. The pub has recently been refurbished including an expansion of the existing space and the addition of The Bake House which serves breakfast, light lunch and […]
Like many an old car, when you are thinking of buying an XJS, you need to consider its inherent faults….and there are a few. If you ignore the misguided comparisons that were made at the time with the much-loved, though long in the tooth, E Type that it superseded – but which, […]
[youtube=http://youtu.be/qafVryU60cQ] Thursday 18th June and just finished fixing window rubbers and chrome bonnet strips to Bob’s E-type. Time to meet the others at the Holiday Inn in Folkestone. Bob would follow on later when he had installed the interior. The sun was alone in a cloudless sky, so it was […]
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 […]
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 […]
The biggest indoor classic car show in the United Kingdom kicked off in fine style on 14 November, with more than 250 club stands and 1700 classics wowing visitors. The show theme was Movie and TV cars and there were a lot of stands depicting this theme. On show was […]
It’s Saturday 27 September and the forecast is for a warm dry weekend; it certainly looks promising as we erect the club gazebo for the last show of the season. The promise is honoured on the Sunday as we arrive at the show in glorious sunshine, a last hurrah and […]
On Saturday 4 October, The Hare in Roxwell Road, Chelmsford, held its last ‘Breakfast Meet’ of the year. A number of members attended to this special event as Channel 4 were recording for a forthcoming programme due out in March 2015, or so we are told. The programme was recorded […]
As you all should be aware, from April to October, The Hare Public House in Roxwell Road, Chelmsford, have a monthly “Breakfast Meet” on the first Saturday of every month. The landlord opens the pub at 09:00am for breakfast and provides free coffee and danish pastries for those that do […]
12 members of Essex Thameside Region attended the Kent Regional Day at Chiddingstone Castle in the Wealds of Kent on Sunday 17th August. In the early 19th century Henry Streatfeild (1757-1829), son of Henry Streatfeild (1706-1762) and Lady Anne Sidney, commissioned William Atkinson to rebuild the house in the Gothic […]
The National club’s anniversary event took place at Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire on Sunday 22 June. What a day! Previous events held in the north of the country haven’t been that dry in the past few years. However, for once, the event was held in brilliant conditions and warm sunshine. The […]