NORFOLK & SUFFOLK

ICENI BRANCH

NEWSLETTER

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Our next indoor meeting will be on 21st February at Scole Community Centre, Ransome Avenue, Scole near Diss, starting at 2-30pm. The events planned for this year will be discussed and then the meeting will be followed by refreshments and hopefully a quiz.

The next meeting at Scole will be on 21st March. More details will be in the next Newsletter.

There is still time to join us at The Greyhound, Ixworth near Bury St Edmunds for our New Year meal. The time is 12-30pm for 1pm. We have nearly filled the spaces available, but if you can come, please let Tricia know as soon as possible. You can choose between beef or chicken, which is served with four vegetables, Yorkshire pudding and gravy. The price is £6-50. The desserts can be ordered on the day. Cold desserts are £3-50 or hot desserts are £4-00 which include apple crumble, sticking toffee pudding, spotted dick or bread and butter pudding, served with custard or cream.

Don’t forget to bring presents wrapped up for our belated Secret Santa. Please bring two if you are coming as a couple. That way everybody will receive at present. Brian Lloyd will be presenting the trophy to the person he has chosen to be ’Member of the Year’.

The Restoration Show that was cancelled last year will now be held again as usual at the Norfolk Showground. At the bowling meeting members present decided to have a Branch stand there again. So we organised for a pick-up prior to restoration and an already restored saloon to be displayed. We will have our usual regalia for sale and as it is our 30th Anniversary, a special cake is being made for us to give away to visiting members.

Also at the Restoration Show will be an auction of classic vehicles, automobilia and cherished number plates. There will be car and bike autojumble and club and trade stands. The event starts at 9-30 am and the admission if £5-00 per person. This is an indoor event with some outdoor stalls. Come along and take a look if you haven’t been before, we always have an enjoyable day.

More details in the next Newsletter but should be around the North Norfolk area.

To celebrate our 30th Anniversary of the Branch we are holding an event at Tricia and Jimmy Loades’ at Boundary Farm, Langley along the same lines as the Technical Weekend two years ago.

This time though it will be just the one day on the Sunday and we are having an outdoor autojumble and stalls, another road run and hopefully other attractions. We are in the planning stage at the present and if you have any suggestions, let Tricia know. More details will be in the next Newsletter.

This year our Branch rally will be held at Banham Zoo. As well as all the attractions of the animals, there is a giant car boot sale in the morning. Again more details next Newsletter.

We are to start near King’s Lynn with a guided tour and talk by a gamekeeper, then on to a working mill. We have an evening meal and party at Stowmarket and accommodation will be available. Sunday would be a visit to the Suffolk Punch horses and Martin will be holding his usual tests and questions along the way. More details as and when available. The Essex Branch should be joining us along the way as they also celebrate their 30th this year.

We have been invited to attend this car show and we have said we will attend with a stand. It is at the Wellesley Recreation Ground, Great Yarmouth and the entry fee is £5-00 per car. Donations from the rally are made to Macmillian Nurses. There will be a raffle and stalls. If you are interested in attending, please let Tricia know.

Every year we are invited to this event and as yet have not attended. So as Minor Matters is printed by the Lavenham Press and we haven’t been before, we thought we would have a stand here to promote our 30th Anniversary. More details will be known later, but if you are interested in coming along, please let Tricia know.

We intend to have a Branch presence at this event and forms can be downloaded for the 40th Ipswich to Felixstowe Run from the Ipswich Transport Museum Services at www.ipswichtransportmuseum.co.uk. Following the link to Museum events. If you would like a paper copy then please contact Tricia.

17th January - New Year lunch.

24th January - Restoration Show, Norfolk Showground.

21st February - Indoor meeting, Scole.

21st March - Indoor meeting, Scole.

23rd May - Autojumble, Langley.

25th July - Norfolk and Suffolk Branch Rally, Banham Zoo.

11th & 12th September - Anniversary run.

17th October - Indoor Meeting, Scole.

21st November - Annual General Meeting, Scole.

Our Chairman, Owen Smith, welcomed twelve members and one guest to our Annual General Meeting.

Members present all received a copy of the Branch accounts and our Treasurer Jacky read through them. We have still got a healthy bank account and so the membership fee of £6-00 will remain for 2011. If you would like a copy of the accounts, please contact Jacky Lloyd.

The Committee was all voted back in, as we had received no nominations for posts. Tricia mentioned that she has now been Secretary for 25 years.

We then had a discussion on the forthcoming events for 2010, the results of which you will see elsewhere in this Newsletter.

After we closed the meeting our Chairman Owen then presented our guest Chris Smedley with a mirror of her old convertible.

Chris was a founder member of the Branch and we thanked her for all the work she has done for the Branch over the last 30 years. Chris was made an honorary member and she hopes to attend some of our future events. We then had a quiz brought by Tricia, which were questions on cakes and confectionery. Jacky and Brian Lloyd won with 11 out of 20 and Chris Smedley came a close second with 10 out of 20. They all received some seasonal chocolates as a prize. Thank you to Pam Smith and ladies who made the refreshments. If you would like a copy of the minutes, please let Tricia know.

At the end of the first game stage there was only eight points between the two teams. The Rest being slightly ahead. But after the second game The Rest won by 35 points. They had 925 points and Ipswich had 890 points.

Thank you to Brian and Jacky for organising the day and to Pam for selling the raffle tickets.

10th January - Beccles Toy and Train Collectors Fair, Beccles Sports Centre, Ringsfield Road, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 9PF. Admission £2-00 OAP’s £1-50, first child £1-50. 10am to 2-30pm.

Andy Lister from Stowmarket has some spares for sale. They include side and rear doors for a traveller, some spares for a van, 2 bonnets - van and traveller, 1 door from a van, 2 traveller doors, 2 rear doors, boxes of spares including lights, etc and a radiator. Contact Andy on 01449-741040.

Chris Smedley has a quantity of old Minor Matters dating from May/June 1982 to Jan/Feb 2009 that she would like to see go to a good home. They are all in binders, which total 13 in all. Chris would like something for the binders. Contact Chris on 01502-586193.

If you would like anything included in the February newsletter then please let Tricia know by 24th January.

Please take a look at our website at www.iceniminors.co.uk and see details of forthcoming events, details of the Committee and more photos of our past events.

Happy New Year to you all from all the Committee. We hope to see you at this years events.

For those that haven’t yet renewed your membership, this Newsletter will be the last one that you will receive. Please do renew and enjoy what we have planned for this year. Don’t forget to send in details of your car and email address. We have had a very good response to this. Those that have already renewed and sent their email address will have received this by email and it is proposed to send the Newsletters monthly, so that any information received can be sent sooner for rallies and events.

We hope that Sue Tarrant and Ken Allen are now feeling better after their recent illnesses. We look forward to seeing them soon.

We welcome new member Geoffery Halstead from Diss this time. Hopefully Geoffery will join us at our events in the near future.