Brighton and Hove Engineerium
To stave off the boredom of cold January days, I paid a visit to the open day at the Goldstone Pumping station (formerly the Brighton and Hove Engineerium) in Neville Road, Hove. Many of you will recall the Engineerium contents were due to be sold off on site by Bonhams […]
Read more »Health and Safety Reminder
We are actively checking at our events to see if non members attending have the appropriate insurance cover (currently £5 million), and taking a closer look at all the exhibits to make sure they are safe to run. SEAMS members ar very good at this and have some excellent displays […]
Read more »Blatchington Windmill Club Nights
The club nights held at the new venue (Blatchington Windmill) every other month are gaining in popularity. I have heard several positive comments and for those that haven’t attended any of our club nights either at Warnham or Blatchington Windmill, please do try and attend at least one and see […]
Read more »Gas-Up at Hurst Farm 30th December 2012
Paul invited SEAMS to hold our end of year gas-up at Hurst Farm. I’m always pleased to hear those words as I know we at SEAMS are in for a really good day out. I am not sure why Paul volunteers to hold the gas-up at his farm, as it […]
Read more »To Paint or Not to Paint
A subject thst often comes up these days is whether to paint or not! If you have an engine or some other item be it a mill or pump, the first question may be `do I just mechanically restore and give it the oily rag treatment’, or `do I paint […]
Read more »First Official Event of 2013
The first official event of 2013 will be the Gas-Up and Bring and Buyat the Southdown garden Centre at Hassocks on March 17th. For those that have not been before, this is becominga very popular and interesting event whether you want to buy or sell, exhibit an engine or collection […]
Read more »The Last Event of 2012
The last event of 2012 was held at my place (Hurst Farm) on the 30th December and was well attended by club members and visitors who were interested to find out what was going on. There were not many engines this year but we did manage to run of the […]
Read more »New Subscription Charges
As those of you who attended the AGM will know it has been necessary to increase our subscription to £18.00. This is because the NFU have increased the premium to insure an event from £10.00 to £60.00, this means that our insurance costs have gone up from £335.00 to £980.00!! […]
Read more »Hassocks November Gas-up and Bring and Buy
When I woke up and saw the weather, I thought that no one would show up so I set off in trepidation wondering what was to be was to be. The roads were flooded, the wind was cold and the rain just kept coming, but upon arrival Peter was already […]
Read more »25/6/7th August Rudgwick Steam and Country Show
This show has always been one of my favourites. I arrived early morning on the Thursday before the show to set up the caravan and look at the area we have to make sure we can get all the members in. It was not to long later that morning that […]
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