On 9th January some welcome new steps for
our Viscount were acquired from a Brussels-based airport ground equipment company, TCR, and collected from Aviation Equipment Resources Ltd at Stansted Airport by Mike Cowan using a suitable low-loader from the Cowan Motor Group. At a meeting of the Brooklands Heritage Partnership on 18th January, Elmbridge Borough Council confirmed the good news that on 21st November their planning committee had reviewed the final draft of the new Historic England-funded Brooklands Conservation Management Plan (CMP) and were very happy with this comprehensive document which was launched for public consultation last July. After further minor editing the CMP will be published on both the Museum’s and Elmbridge Borough Council's websites very soon. As a direct result of this work, the team now has high hopes for another Historic England grant being offered
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imminently to enable contractors to be deployed shortly to clear extensive undergrowth from the long neglected western section of the Byfleet Banking between Barnes Wallis Drive and Wintersells Road. Events
Our department’s personnel once again provided significant support to our caterers and events staff with equipment and other infrastructure items before, during and after the De Dion-Bouton Tricycle Race and New Year’s Day events and everybody’s efforts here are much appreciated. Another aerial photography flight was made
from Brooklands on 28th November, courtesy of Jorn Rausing and Gary Savage, flying Jorn’s Fairoaks-based immaculate Bell 407 helicopter (G-COGS), enabling our PR and Marketing Manager Paul Stewart to take useful reference views to assist with updating our Trail Guide. Julian Temple
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The Car Rides team looking sartorially elegant in Ronnie Barker style (Keith Barry).
excellently organised by Michael Sands who kindly invites associated waifs and strays from other Brooklands teams to join in with the festivities and celebrations. As a team we always try to make an impact
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usually, as indeed this year, by winning a dispro- portionate amount of the raffle prizes, as well as dressing up. This time, we wore our ‘Arkwright coats’ with 'fork ’andles' in the breast pockets as our tribute to that much missed national treasure
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e were nicely warmed up for Christmas by the Motorcycle Team Lunch, a function
Ronnie Barker. Fortified with turkey and, ironically for Christmas, with our toys safely stowed in their wrapping, we raised a glass to our absent friends as our thoughts turned both to them and to our history. The reason for the latter was that the end of an era is coming, one in which a major personality and driving force of the Museum bows out after many years at the helm; a period during which Brooklands moved from being a provincial Museum to an international brand. What a lot of people do not know is that it was Museum
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