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The Fire Services National Museum Trust collection at Weedon is
holding a Community open day on Saturday 16th July 2011.
You are invited to join us in celebrating the forthcoming London Olympics with a special community event presenting a diverse a mix of sports, crafts and performance arts. Over 20 have taken up the challenge from ballet dancers to ramblers, Army bands to school choral groups, bridge players to archery to aikido.
Open from 11.00 am to 5 pm, we intend to display quite a number of our collection of vehicles and memorabilia, also our new display area in building 5 will be open to the public for the first time. There will also be a mix of additional displays from the Northamptonshire Fire & Rescue Service and the Northamptonshire fire preservation group. Unfortunately on the day only the top half of the site will be open to the public, and visitors will not be able to visit building 45 or the casements areas.
Please note due to the large volume of visitors expected there is no parking available on site. There will be some additional areas open for parking in the village, but the main car park will be located in the HGV vehicle testing station at the top of the hill on the A45 junction with Cavalry hill, this is an approx 10 minute walk from the Car Park to the main gate.
This is the largest event we have run on the site and hopefully there will be combined with the other groups over 25 appliances on display in the open areas.
If you cannot make the day, then if any clubs would like to arrange a visit later in the year, then please contact me Pat Murfin to arrange a convenient date. But please remember we won’t be able to get many appliances outside for pictures for you.
OUR ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
It is very pleasing to report that our 2010 Friends Annual General meeting took place at Weedon last August. The meeting held in the ground floor of building 5 drew together a number of friends not seen at an AGM for some many years.
Neil Wallington and Arthur Heart summed up the frustrations of the last 18 months, but the prospects are looking much better with support from the fire service and local councils gaining momentum.
Norman Dickerson Chairman of the FSNMT outlined some of the changes the prospects for opening as part of the run up to the 2012 Olympics.
After the meeting Friends were to be able to go on tours of some of the buildings that the collection is housed in. There was a chance to meet service team members and view the work in progress.
Aubyn once again stepped in with his carering unit to feed the gathered hungry guests.
Please note the Date for the 2011 AGM is Saturday the 4th June
Stop press AGM for 2011 cancelled due to volume of work in hand getting ready for the open day on the 16th July, it will probably be rescheduled for mid September 2011.
