Category: Event Posts
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‘Drive-it’ Day
Our plan this year was to have an easy day for our first event, and as it happens the sun was with us, after a very stormy night on Saturday. We met at the ‘Kings Head’ at Redlynch near Whiteparish, West Grinstead, Whadden, Alderbury and back via Downton for coffee at 10.30pm. There was a good…
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Technical Evening
The New Forest opened the New Year with an Auto Technical Evening at the Empress of Blandings, Copythorne on 18 January 2018. This pub is the home of the centre, and is able to provide a good sized room above the bar, and this was the venue for the evening. We are fortunate to have…
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2018 Dinner Dance & Prize Giving
Held on the 3rd February at The Hotel Miramar, Bournemouth. Again in 2018 we had reason to celebrate an anniversary, so The ‘New Forest Centre’ had a special cake made for the traditional afternoon teas at ‘The Hotel Miramar’ and marked the year that the Frogeye Sprite was launched at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix on the…
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Jim Finch Presentation – The Connector
Your New Forest Austin Healey Club committee had their first meeting, last night, fresh with ideas and enthusiasm after last months AGM – Jim Finch, Chairman, was presented with his beautifully mounted and engraved con rod award in recognition for all he and Jan do for the centre – here’s to 2018….we will keep you…
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Skittles at The Phoenix
Down in the New Forest, the tradition at this time of year is to have a skittles match, when the dark evenings close in and the cars are likely to be resting after lots of long summer of outings. On the 8th November we abandoned our regular haunt ‘The Potters Heron’ at Hursley for ‘The…
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New Forest Centre 50th Anniversary at Bucklers Hard
50 Healeys and 50 years since the forming of New Forest Centre. Saturday 15th July saw 50 Healeys meet on Bucklers Hard, a historic site on the Beaulieu River just below the National Car Museum. This was the site 200 years ago where Nelson’s war ships were being constructed each one taking some two and…
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