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The very well known Welsh Historian, Ffwl Ebrill, will be giving a talk later this morning. The subject will be decided either in a darkened room with the aid of Tarot cards in that famous Radnorshire pub The Clutch and Codpiece , often used by trials drivers and any surviving bouncers, or by exchange of telegrams.
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I've always thought/read that the model for 'The Spirit of Ecstasy' was the 'secretary' (nudge-nudge) of the then Lord Montague (he of Beaulieu...), by name Ellie Thornton? I also seem to remember that she may have perished on the Titanic or somesuch.
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I have just looked at the Beaulieu website and there is a comprehensive article about Eleanor Thornton which is well worth a read. She apparently died in 1915 when on a ship torpedoed in the Meditarranean.
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01-04-2022, 08:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-04-2022, 08:45 AM by Malcolm Parker.)
At one of the VSCC Anniversary Rallies held at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern a group of young members organised an (unofficial) evening side show by the 'Austin 7 Display Team'. This was based on the Royal Signal Corps Motorcycle Display team that used to feature at the Royal Military Tatoo. I didn't witness the Malvern display but I understand that it was very impressive!
The best side show of that VSCC week was the demonstration run of cyclecars up the Old Wych in Mavern, a fearsome hill with a gradient of about 1 in 2 where it joins the main road.