Events and visits which will appeal to everyone with an interest in Telecommunications Heritage. Please try to attend and help to keep alive the wonderful atmosphere of bygone days.

The THG has a recorded information line to keep you up to date about events. It will give general information about what's coming up over the next few months and will be updated shortly before each event to give any last minute changes. The recorded messages will be kept as short as possible.

THG Events Line:  See Journal No. 62 for details of new phone number.

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If you would like to contribute to a THG event by giving a short talk, demonstration or show a video, film or slides, please contact Simon Chappell. Your contribution can be from ten to thirty minutes in length. Please remember to state what type of audio visual equipment, if any, you will need us to provide.

See www.nvcf.org.uk/dates.htm for more details.

Organised via the British Vintage Wireless Society.

See Avoncroft Museum website for location.

The hall will open at 09:00 for those who have taken a table and are setting up. The swapmeet will open to THG members at 10:00 and close at 13:00. There are 13 tables available to be booked. We must vacate the hall by 14:00.

...followed by a visit to 'The Telephone Museum' within Milton Keynes Museum in the afternoon, which is just a couple of miles from the Community Centre.

The director of the Milton Keynes Museum, Bill Griffiths, has very kindly agreed to waive the Museum's usual fee on 27th October 2007 so that THG members can visit without incurring any admission charge. I think that is a marvellous and kind gesture from him and I hope that everybody in the group appreciates this.

At the Museum there will be a chance to get refreshments in the "Granary Tea Room". Further information about the Milton Keynes Museum, which will be open until 16:30, can be found at www.mkmuseum.org.uk .

Full details about The Telephone Museum can be found at www.mkheritage.co.uk/ttm

Ron Sewell will be holding another of his famous workshops in the afternoon.

Events organised by Laurence Rudolf.

If you would like to come along (there are places for about twenty people) please contact Simon Chappell as soon as possible. Places will be allocated on a "first come, first served" basis.

This is just a short letter, to invite you to the 2007 "Great Eastern Classic Vehicle Rally". This will be the 31st Great Eastern Rally and will be held on Sunday 22nd July 2007, at Ingatestone Hall, Hall Lane (a continuation of Station Road), Ingatestone (Near Brentwood), Essex. As usual, the rally will open at 10.00 am and end at about 5.00 p.m.

Entry to the rally will be free of charge as usual, but we will hold a raffle to recoup some of the organising costs. If you can find anything to donate as a raffle prize, it would be most welcome. Your free admission is to the rally field and to attend the rally. If you should wish to visit the Elizabethan Manor House, there is an admission charge, but those attending the rally may be eligible to receive a discount.

The rally is a "turn upon the day" event. There is no need for vehicle owners to pre-book. We will be able to accommodate you. Autojumblers should book. We do not charge anyone to attend.

Please note that the house, the toilets and the tea room do not open until 12.00 noon. If you are planning to bring anyone who may need to use the toilets frequently, please do not arrive too early.

I do hope you can come to the rally. If you want to bring your own friends along, then please do so. Ingatestone Hall is an interesting place to go, even when the rally is not there.

If you bring a classic vehicle, please park it sensibly in the next available space on the rally field, then visit the control tent and sign in the attendance book. Signing yourself in should ensure that you receive a written notification of the rally next year and we also use information from the book for prizegiving.

If you come in a modern vehicle, please park it in the Hall's car park and walk to the rally from the car park. Directions to the rally will be fully signposted on the day.

Yours sincerely, Adrian Hanwell.

D. & L. O. C. Essex Branch Secretary.

Source: www.ukvillages.co.uk/ukvillages.nsf/villages/England/Fryerning-Essex

See www.porthcurno.org.uk/ and www.connected-earth.com/Daysout/PorthcurnoTelegraphMuseum/index.htm and

www.goonhilly.bt.com/plan_your_visit/plan_your_visit.html

See Avoncroft Museum website for location.

After the swapmeet, there will be a 'telecoms workshop' given by Ron Sewell.

See www.nvcf.org.uk/dates.htm for more details.

Organised via the British Vintage Wireless Society.

At the Milton Keynes Museum there will be a chance to get refreshments in the "Granary Tea Room". Further information about the Milton Keynes Museum can be found at www.mkmuseum.org.uk and the Museum will be open to 4.30 pm.

Full details about The Telephone Museum can be found at www.mkheritage.co.uk/ttm

See the THG kiosk pages or visit their website at www.unicornkiosks.com

The Warwickshire Exhibition Centre, The Fosse, Fosse Way, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV31 1XN

See www.nvcf.org.uk/move.htm for more details.

Organised via the British Vintage Wireless Society.

10.30am to 4pm - £5 (under-14s FREE)

Early Entry (from approx. 9.00am) - £20

All tickets "on the door"

FREE CAR PARKING

Of the 2005 event, Angela Gill, Director of Avoncroft wrote..

"...unfortunately, I was unable to attend on the day but have received a number of excellent reports from visitors, staff and volunteers at the museum. Thank you so much for supporting us again this year and bringing your families and friends who not only visited your event, but also paid as visitors to look around the museum. As a charity such support is invaluable. I look forward to hearing from you soon to organise next year's event."

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