Hassocks Gas-Up – 27th October 2019
By Ian Sampson This event has been running for many years organised by John Peters. We had a number of engines running and a few stalls selling, at 10 am a good number of us dived into the restaurant for breakfast! After our fill, it was time to fire up […]
Read more »Chairman’s Report – December 2019
By Steve Rowland Chairman I shall start this issue with the SEAMS AGM held at Faygate on the 21st November 2019. Firstly I wish to thank everybody who attended, we had another good turn out of people this year, 21 in total but that did include committee members only 6 […]
Read more »Weald and Downland Autumn Show Oct 5/6th 2019
By Richard Amos With the weather forecast looking wet, I decided against taking the caravan travelling down each day instead. The site can get pretty boggy if wet and we had significant rain in the week leading up to the weekend. As it turned out, both days were relatively dry […]
Read more »Pulborough Harvest Fair 28th September 2019
By Ian Sampson Due to a certain show being cancelled due to weather conditions, I managed to book into this show. It was a very good show and a nice line of engines, a lot of stalls selling all sorts of things plus charity stalls and food outlets. A small […]
Read more »Le Moteur est dans le Pre, Giverny Sept 7/8th 2019
By Richard Amos Once again, Jon Foster and I made our annual trip to the Giverny show in France in Jon’s Discovery and my trailer carrying Jon’s Blackstone ‘Blister’ engine and my 4.5hp Fuller and Johnson. Somewhere in the back was Jon’s Henrici hot air engine. Having taken the overnight […]
Read more »Harvesting, West Stoke. 7/8th September 2019
By Ian Sampson This is a very laid back show, I have been going for years. This year the show had been brought together better rather than being spread out, the engine pen was larger and 12 engines booked in but only four turned up! Sunday was not much better, […]
Read more »Balls Cross Charity Rally Aug 31/Sept 1st 2019
By Mark Tewkesbury With the Bank Holiday falling early this year, Tony Haydon’s event moved a week forward and meant it did not clash with ‘Harvesting’. Having bought a bargain basement Bamford a few weeks before, this was hurriedly prepared to take along. It was a mixed day, typical of […]
Read more »Saddles & Steam – Singleton 17/18th Aug 2019
By Brian Charman My weekend started on the Thursday when I spent a few hours measuring and marking out our exhibit area. The weather was good with warm sunshine and the forecast for the following three days was looking promising with some rain showers! On Friday, exhibitors who were camping […]
Read more »Chairman’s Report Nov/Dec 2019
By Steve Rowland – S.E.A.M.S. Chairman Dear Members On October the 17th SEAMS held its first Winter meeting of the season at Faygate Village Hall. We had about 15 members, that included John Peters, Richard Amos and Jon Foster, who provided us a look back to past rallies and events. […]
Read more »Amberley Stationary Engines Day – 9th June 2019
by Sean Murrell Due to re-shuffling and communication issues among the event organisers inside Amberley Museum, what is normally April’s season opener event for many was pushed back into June. This lead to entries being lower than previous years, (or at least last year, I have to take peoples’ word […]
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