07-10-2021, 08:56 AM
Since everybody and thier auntie have commented, I thought I’d add my penn’orth.
As spectator or entrant at any venue under ACU or MSUK speed event regs, dogs are banned. Turning up at Shelsley last week for Eight Hills or at the Lawns for Ian Grace’s big gathering, dogs are allowed. For trials dogs are usually allowed, except in the lambing season when farmers understandably do not want them. Some NT or Cadw venues allow dogs into their gardens or roofless castles, some do not, Victorian carpets and Tudor tapestries are generally considered too delicate for canine visitors. There is a stately home not far from Abergavenny which, on the days it is open to the public, assumes most visitors will have dogs. Some pubs welcome dogs, the Bell at Wiveton or the Crown at Pantigelli tend to have doggie treats on the bar. Wetherspoons has always banned dogs, just one of the many reasons why this bearded Austin Seven owner would never set foot in one of Tim Martin’s pubs.
When making that life changing course to become a dog owner, there will constraints as well as opportunities. As an event organiser, one wants to offer as wide a range of opportunities as possible, whilst respecting the constraints imposed by venue owners, bodies issuing permits or sometimes local licensing boards. The centenary team made it clear from the beginning that the venue owners would not allow dogs. Other sites might have had other restrictions, everyone silent and in their tents by 10.00 pm, or no work allowed on cars.
I will not be able to manage more than a day time visit to the main site, but as the fee also includes the extraordinary display of competition machines day at Prescott, I reckon the cost is remarkably good value. Well done organisers! Now all I have to do is complete a certain car in time for its 98th birthday, so it can go and see its older brothers and sisters.
As spectator or entrant at any venue under ACU or MSUK speed event regs, dogs are banned. Turning up at Shelsley last week for Eight Hills or at the Lawns for Ian Grace’s big gathering, dogs are allowed. For trials dogs are usually allowed, except in the lambing season when farmers understandably do not want them. Some NT or Cadw venues allow dogs into their gardens or roofless castles, some do not, Victorian carpets and Tudor tapestries are generally considered too delicate for canine visitors. There is a stately home not far from Abergavenny which, on the days it is open to the public, assumes most visitors will have dogs. Some pubs welcome dogs, the Bell at Wiveton or the Crown at Pantigelli tend to have doggie treats on the bar. Wetherspoons has always banned dogs, just one of the many reasons why this bearded Austin Seven owner would never set foot in one of Tim Martin’s pubs.
When making that life changing course to become a dog owner, there will constraints as well as opportunities. As an event organiser, one wants to offer as wide a range of opportunities as possible, whilst respecting the constraints imposed by venue owners, bodies issuing permits or sometimes local licensing boards. The centenary team made it clear from the beginning that the venue owners would not allow dogs. Other sites might have had other restrictions, everyone silent and in their tents by 10.00 pm, or no work allowed on cars.
I will not be able to manage more than a day time visit to the main site, but as the fee also includes the extraordinary display of competition machines day at Prescott, I reckon the cost is remarkably good value. Well done organisers! Now all I have to do is complete a certain car in time for its 98th birthday, so it can go and see its older brothers and sisters.