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New Members Day – Bursledon Brickworks Museum
Read more: New Members Day – Bursledon Brickworks MuseumSunday 18th May 2025 We thought it would be a good idea to build on the past New Members Days so we laid the foundations for a trip to the Bursledon Brickworks Museum at Swanwick, Southampton. The Museum had booked the start of The Distinguished Gentleman’s Charity Bike ride-out on the same day. This was…
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New Forest Centre tour from Bicester Base
Read more: New Forest Centre tour from Bicester BaseRevcounter August 2025 Late last year 2024, I was thinking about a summer tour for our centre. I had received good reports about the ‘Holt Hotel’, Bicester as the Healey Motorsport group had successfully used it for their prize giving event. After a reccy with Brian Loades and an investigation of the area for places…
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New Forest Centre Laying up Supper XIX
Read more: New Forest Centre Laying up Supper XIXSaturday 30th November 2024 Over the years of knowing Club member Alan Pickford and the great interest he has in “The People’s Mosquito” (TPM), we thought it a good idea to try and feature “The Wooden Wonder” at this year’s Laying up Supper. It soon became obvious that our normal venues would be unsuitable for…
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New Forest Day Out & Picnic
Read more: New Forest Day Out & PicnicAs one of New Forest Centre R.W.W. (reasonable weather weekday) days for 2024, it was decided to meet at Bolderwood, within the New Forest, for an August picnic and a bit of a natter. The ‘early birds’ chose a good forestry spot and set up some chairs and tables which expanded throughout the morning to…
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New Forest Centre – ‘Drive It Day’
Read more: New Forest Centre – ‘Drive It Day’held on the 23rd April 2023 The saying is, spend time on your planning and all will be well, but this event was planned in 2020, and what happens the dreaded Covid hit us all. The sad thing is it is still around, and one couple that booked to come along had to cancel due…
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Foray France IX
Read more: Foray France IXNew Forest Centre in search of the Holy Grail Report by David ToftsPictures by the Crew In days gone by, in BC (Before Covid), we would have been able to arrange our future Foray France before we even set out on the current Foray France, but the great plague changed all that. When the world came…
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Exbury Gardens
Read more: Exbury GardensDespite some light rain dampening proceedings, a total of ten Austin Healeys assembled at the Kimbridge Barn, just north of Romsey, on Wednesday 25th May for the first “Reasonable Weather Weekday” of the year.After a chance to catch up with friends, some of whom we hadn’t seen since 2019, over tea or coffee and, for…
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New Forest Centre RWW visit ‘The Hospital of St Cross’ and ‘Almshouse of Noble Poverty’, Winchester on the 4th September 2019
Read more: New Forest Centre RWW visit ‘The Hospital of St Cross’ and ‘Almshouse of Noble Poverty’, Winchester on the 4th September 2019This establishment was founded just 65 years after the Norman invasion, and was created by a young French monk and nobleman, Henri de Blois, Bishop of Winchester, who was the grandson of William the Conqueror. It remains a Christian almshouse for the elderly http://hospitalofstcross.co.uk/. Founded in the 12th century, the Hospital of St Cross still…
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Clubbing Together
Read more: Clubbing TogetherIn May 2008, ITV produced a short piece on the New Forest Centre of the Austin Healey Club as part of their Clubbing Together series:
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Our Chequered History
Read more: Our Chequered HistoryThe history of the Austin Healey Club – an article produced by Joyce Pearce and first published in the 1986 International Healey Weekend Brochure Introduction No history of note ever made interesting reading by leaving out the disappointments and difficulties. These are just as much part of history as the successes and the fun. Nothing…
