New Year Dinner 

A very enjoyable New Year Dinner was held at the Ferncroft Masonic Hall on Saturday 14th January. 40 guests attended and were provided with a 4 course meal produced by the “in house” chef and entertained by Alan Chitty, a magician.

Alan performed close up table magic between courses and finished off the evening with a further 40 minute show. It is hoped that this function, which was a first for 1020, will become an annual event - We must thank Roger Leach for booking the hall and making many of the arrangements for us. 

A Very Happy New Year to all our members!

Duncan and Fizz Gee arriving at CCOTP on New Year’s Day

On New Year’s Day, many 1020 members gathered on Bournemouth promenade, with many other local car clubs, for the traditional meeting of classic car enthusiasts.

This year, two of our members, Duncan and Fizz Gee, officially completed their marathon Round Britain Coastal Trip by returning to their original starting point. They spent 7 years, covering 12,200 miles in total, splitting the journey into 1 month segments each year, to travel a section of the coast, except for the Scottish section which took them nearly 3 months.

Nigel Knowles, Regional Secretary of Home Counties South (Region 10) arrived just in time to wave the chequered flag over the much travelled car, with hood down, just before the rain started. The wet weather did not deter the huge turnout of vehicles from attending this very popular event.

Club night 2nd January

Our club night, the following evening, was well attended for a Bank Holiday meeting. Our membership secretary, Janet Riley, was kept busy with membership renewals before a film covering the development of the MG from the “A” to the “SV” was shown.