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50 Parking arrangements
Please note that for all events marked ‘Parking in The Heights’, designated vehicles only can enter via the Campbell Gate, off Brookland’s Road. All other Members including Club level and visitors please park in The Heights or main public car park unless otherwise specified. Parking arrnagements for other weekend events are:
Club level Members: entry via Campbell Gate and parking outside the Paddock. Period and classic vehicles only inside the Paddock by invitation. Please abide by staff directions.
All other Members and visitors: entry via main public entrance off Brooklands Drive.
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What have Brooklands and Bonneville Salt flats got in common? Well, that’s the question Mike Venables was asked when he was photographing a group of volunteers at a CEO Coffee Morning in February. Curatorial team member Viki Beshparova (pictured right) was photographed by Mike on a tour round the archives holding up a small pot bearing the inscription ‘Tirgeau Bonneville Salt Flats, Wendover, Ut 02/09/09’.
The item consists of a small plastic container filled with a material similar in consistency to a Slush Puppie (We’re told it’s a crushed ice drink!). Now, the thing about salt is that it is a very challenging material to store, firstly because of the need to maintain its condition, and secondly salt and water are the last things you want to be introducing to the sterile
and controlled atmosphere of the Archives. However, for the Brooklands curatorial staff, in common with their counterparts in museums such as The British Museum and The Victoria and Albert, this is just another challenge they rise to in their goal to conserve anything that helps tell the story of their particular collection. There is a bit of a mystery
surrounding this particular artefact, which was given to the Museum by Maurice and Cindi Turgeau. A bit of research leads us to Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA where Maurice and Cindi ran their tiny 50cc Kawasaki motorcycle in the 2009 BUB Speed Trials. More research is required to pin down the significance of this bit of
Bonneville salt. However, for now it helps to maintain a link between Brooklands, the birth of record-breaking venues and Bonneville Salt Flats where Campbell and fellow pioneer record breakers went after they had outgrown Brooklands and Pendine Sands on this side of the Atlantic.
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