Author: Paul Gallagher

THE NORTHERN VINTAGE TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION

Monthly Newsletter July 2020

Founded 1977

President & Club Chairman
Ernie Hutchinson, 60 Brompton Court, Brompton on Swale, North Yorkshire, DL10 7SB Tel:01748 810362
Club Secretary
Mavis Bailey, 86 Geneva Crescent, Darlington, Co Durham, DL1 4LA
Membership Secretary
Mavis Bailey, 86 Geneva Crescent, Darlington Co Durham, DL1 4LA Tel:01325 359114
Club Treasurer
Maureen Briggs
20 Salters Lane, South Darlington, DL1 2AD
Newsletter
Elaine Storey, 15 Cleveland View, Coundon, Bishop Auckland, Co Durham, DL14 8NE Tel:01388 609666

Meetings are held at Middleton St George Cricket Club, Water View, Darlington DL2 1JQ
At 19.30 the third Wednesday each month
When we are able .

Hello everyone I hope you are all coping with this big change to our lives.
The Cricket Club re opens on the 4th July so that means we are welcome back on a Wednesday for club night. So if you feel like a look out then pop in this month. I fully understand that a lot of you need to wait a bit longer so we are not “organising” this night.
There is no club night or newsletter in August so lets cross our fingers everything continues to progress the right way and we can start afresh in September.
Stay safe , look after each other.
Ernie.
Ernie.
Ernie.

THE NORTHERN VINTAGE TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION
NEWSLETTER FOR JULY
HOPEFULLY OUR NEXT CLUB NIGHT WILL BE
THE 16TH OF SEPTEMBER.
You can now find us on Face book search for
The Northern Vintage Transport Association.
Don’t forget we also have a website where you will find pictures of events we have been to and events we have held at the club nights.
www.tnvta.co.uk
We send you this newsletter hoping all is well with you all.
Bet you are all missing the shows. We are
We hope to see you at our next club night which hopefully will be the 16th of September.
We will really look forward to seeing all of you for this club night. Hopefully we will be in control of the virus by then and can have a meet up with you all. It’s been a long time coming.
This was held on 15th January and was the AGM. Whilst it wasn’t vey well attended the members present all appeared happy with the way the club is being run.
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Looking forward to our Gathering? I know I am. Can’t wait. It will be the first Rally of any kind we will have attended this year.
20th of September is the date of the Gathering.
Please come out and support us. We will have a lot to talk about.
As you all know we do not have a club night or a newsletter in August and will do the same this year. We hope that anyone who has holidays booked for August will be able to get away. Fingers crossed you do get away.
Wensleydale show will this year be on line. If you are interested please log on to www.wensleydaleshowonline.co.uk by the 10th August. Should be interesting
Looking forward to our October club night which will be 21st of October
We will be holding the Auction of the year. The greats Auction of all time. So please support your club. If you can’t be with us in person we will take phone bids. If you can’t bid by phone or be with us could you please dig deep and sort anything you could donate to us to sell on Auction night. the more we get to sell the more funds we can raise to keep the club going. Thanks in advance.
And Finally
I am not adding 2020 to my age
I didn’t use it.
Looking forward to our October club night which will be 21st of October
We will be holding the Auction of the year. The greats Auction of all time. So please support your club. If you can’t be with us in person we will take phone bids. If you can’t bid by phone or be with us could you please dig deep and sort anything you could donate to us to sell on Auction night. the more we get to sell the more funds we can raise to keep the club going. Thanks in advance.
And Finally
I am not adding 2020 to my age
I didn’t use it.

Scarborough Transport Museum Part 2
My wife Chris works in the museum’s reception and gift shop and every day we are usually the first in the building apart from the early morning cleaners. They don’t go into the museum itself, only the gift shop, ballroom and café/toilets areas. Before they leave, the cleaning team lock the entrance door and re-set the alarms. We arrive at about 8.30am and I disappear into the museum to start turning everything on in the three vintage fairground and vehicle display sheds. I always go the same route through the complex, turning on knobs and switches as I go. It is so magical to see the museum slowly coming into life when one by one the vintage fairground rides light up and come alive and I am hoping that they are the only things which come alive! After I have finished ‘shed two’ I pass through the afore mentioned door into ‘shed four’ to turn on the Limonair Mechanical Organ before going into ‘shed three’, where the most of the vintage fairground rides and old fairground vehicles are to be found. To cut a long story short. I had turned on everything down the left side of ‘shed three’ as well as across the bottom of it and I was returning up the other side, heading back to the other end of the shed where the Dodgems and Cake Walk rides are. When I was approaching the 1950s ‘Austin Car Ride’ I walked into air which was freezing cold, but only from my chest upwards. I could feel a presence of some kind, but could see nothing. In the center of ‘shed three’ there is a display line of classic cars One of these is a red and white Citroen 2CV Dolly. The next ride for me to switch on and check was the museum’s vintage ‘Ghost Train’ (honestly).

As I was approaching the entrance to the Ghost Train I saw the same black shadow, the ‘Pillar of Darkness’ which I had seen over a year previous pass across the boot lid of the Citroen 2CV, again from right to left. Since then I have had the lights in ‘shed three’ on and off and looked from different angles at the rear of that Citroen 2CV as I have walked passed it, but there is no reflection of anything like that black shadow the ‘Pillar of Darkness’ which I saw that morning.
I was halfway across to the large ‘Thriller Ride’ (Speedway) when the air temperature suddenly warmed up. The icy feel to the air had gone and so had the feeling of being ‘not alone’.
I carried on with the rest of my tasks without any further problems and went back to the reception area to see my wife who looked at me and said straight away “what is wrong with you”. I must admit that it did shake me up a bit, however the next time I entered the museum’s ‘shed three’, which was at about 9.30am after having a cup of coffee with the other volunteers, whatever it was in there before had gone. The next morning when I did my rounds all was well again.. Could it be something from the past of one of the old fairground rides, or mechanical organs, who knows? Until the next visit by the ‘Pillar of Darkness’ At the moment all has been quiet ‘ghostie wise’ in the Scarborough Fair Collection & Vintage Transport Museum display halls.
Or has it?
Keith Kitching

DATES FOR YOU DIARY
2020
Sun 20th Sept NVTA Gathering
Friday 18th Dec Christmas Party.
EXPRESS DELIVERIES,ANYWHERE,ANYTIME
Car and Motorcycle Transport
GEOFF BAYLES TRANSPORT
Phone 01388 720362 or 0796340447
EXPRESS DELIVERIES,ANYWHERE,ANYTIME
Car and Motorcycle Transport
GEOFF BAYLES TRANSPORT
Phone 01388 720362 or 0796340447
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Dates for you Diary.
June 8th /9th Tractorfest Newby Hall
June 15th Srutton Village Fete.
29th /30th June Preston Park Fire Engine Rally
July 6th/7th Duncombe Park

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