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11th June
Steam Museum Run
Photos & Report courtesy: Peter Mitchell
Sunday 11th June the Puddleducks had a run to Hollycombe steam museum in Liphook. ( http://www.hollycombe.co.uk/ ), where there is a narrow gauge steam railway, steam powered fairground with a number of unique rides and other exhibits around the site. The cost of admission as a car club is £10 per person over the age of 3, usual cost is £16 for adults, £14 for senior citizens and £12 for children aged 3 to 15. There is a cafe on site which sells hot food and sandwiches, but there is plenty of room for picnicking.
We met at Morrisons in Horndean at 10:45 to drive there. Our route: up the A3 to start with, then taking the old A3 (now the A272 and onto the B2070) to Liphook.
Two other car clubs visited, The Riley and Mazda clubs, so the car park was interesting.
We met at Morrisons in Horndean at 10:45 to drive there. Our route: up the A3 to start with, then taking the old A3 (now the A272 and onto the B2070) to Liphook.
Two other car clubs visited, The Riley and Mazda clubs, so the car park was interesting.
Photos courtesy: Peter Mitchell
Peter Mitchell's Report:-
It is some years since we last visited Hollycombe and I have never walked around the extensive grounds themselves so we took advantage of Sean's organisation and duly turned up at Sainsbury’s on June 11th.
Due to happenings elsewhere in the 2cv and personal world only two 2cvs attended plus Sean and family in their Berlingo – the alternator bolt nut having decide to part company with its thread on their 2cv. Colin in his Mehari plus his daughter and grandson joined us up the road and Alison came with us so we managed to muster twelve people.
Malcolm and his wife are ‘re-painting’ their 2cv with a pseudo-rust finish in the form of a 30m roll of hot-air gun applied stuff they got from China. It isn’t that easy to get right but the parts they have done so far look pretty good.
We had a coffee and than a ride on the ‘big’ steam train which has some amazing views over the countryside, then back to the cars for a lazy lunch.
After that people went their own ways to try out the various steam rides whilst Gillian and I walked around the grounds, chatting to the guy trying to find the annoying ‘knock’ in the beam engine and looking at the quirky items dotted around the grounds.
Alison went on a mission to try out all the rides. They look quite innocuous but are actually a lot more ‘vicious’ than they appear. Note the angles some of them get to – especially the only single steamboat ride in the world. It is quite short so the angles it gets to generates a lot of ‘g’ force. The ‘Razzle-Dazzle’ also goes gently around like a roundabout, with its steam engine chuffing away, slowly speeding up, until the operator announces that it is time to hang on, when it tilts way down at one side then reverses the tilt. Modern rides may be scary but they look that way, these take you by surprise.
We finished off at the cinema with an excellent and informative talk about the museum and then a good old Charlie Chaplin film.
The museum is staffed by volunteers and they are always on the lookout for additional help. You don’t have to be able to drive a steam powered machine, gardeners, painters, general helpers are just as important so look them up if you fancy a change.
Another excellent 2cv day out. Join us next month with the Bath Tub Club at the only Hovercraft museum in the world and the following day at the Lavender Fields near Selborne.
It is some years since we last visited Hollycombe and I have never walked around the extensive grounds themselves so we took advantage of Sean's organisation and duly turned up at Sainsbury’s on June 11th.
Due to happenings elsewhere in the 2cv and personal world only two 2cvs attended plus Sean and family in their Berlingo – the alternator bolt nut having decide to part company with its thread on their 2cv. Colin in his Mehari plus his daughter and grandson joined us up the road and Alison came with us so we managed to muster twelve people.
Malcolm and his wife are ‘re-painting’ their 2cv with a pseudo-rust finish in the form of a 30m roll of hot-air gun applied stuff they got from China. It isn’t that easy to get right but the parts they have done so far look pretty good.
We had a coffee and than a ride on the ‘big’ steam train which has some amazing views over the countryside, then back to the cars for a lazy lunch.
After that people went their own ways to try out the various steam rides whilst Gillian and I walked around the grounds, chatting to the guy trying to find the annoying ‘knock’ in the beam engine and looking at the quirky items dotted around the grounds.
Alison went on a mission to try out all the rides. They look quite innocuous but are actually a lot more ‘vicious’ than they appear. Note the angles some of them get to – especially the only single steamboat ride in the world. It is quite short so the angles it gets to generates a lot of ‘g’ force. The ‘Razzle-Dazzle’ also goes gently around like a roundabout, with its steam engine chuffing away, slowly speeding up, until the operator announces that it is time to hang on, when it tilts way down at one side then reverses the tilt. Modern rides may be scary but they look that way, these take you by surprise.
We finished off at the cinema with an excellent and informative talk about the museum and then a good old Charlie Chaplin film.
The museum is staffed by volunteers and they are always on the lookout for additional help. You don’t have to be able to drive a steam powered machine, gardeners, painters, general helpers are just as important so look them up if you fancy a change.
Another excellent 2cv day out. Join us next month with the Bath Tub Club at the only Hovercraft museum in the world and the following day at the Lavender Fields near Selborne.