At Last - A Meeting Has Been Arranged

[watsonofearnock]

Well, we have finally made arrangements for our first ever meeting in Scotland. – Sunday 4th May and the venue is New Lanark which is around 35 miles south-east of Glasgow. The date has been chosen to coincide with the early May Bank Holiday to encourage as many of you as possible to come along and the venue picked for easy access from as far south as Land’s End and as far north as John O’Groats. New Lanark is a World Heritage Site – a mill founded by David Dale in 1786 but in due course sold on to his son-in-law Robert Owen a philanthropic industrialist (try saying that after a few!!).. The mills are sited on the banks of the River Clyde adjacent to the Falls of Clyde and have been beautifully restored. See http://www.newlanark.org/ for full details of the venue. We are proposing that while arrival time is up to yourself (ideally between 10.0am and 11.0am) we all get together for lunch at 12.30pm in the New Lanark Mill Hotel dining room. On Sundays, lunch takes the form of a carvery meal with two courses costing £12.50 and three courses coming in at £14.50. Obviously if you don’t want to have lunch in the dining room you can come along for the cars which we will have parked up as a display and you can feel free to have a picnic lunch or the New Lanark Mill Hotel serves pub lunches in their bar.
What we would like you to do is to post on here if you intend coming along and let us know whether you are bringing passengers and obviously numbers involved. But ………. we also want you to phone the New Lanark Mill Hotel on 01555 667200 and book in your own numbers for lunch. You must however tell them that you wish to be seated with the rest of us at the Chrysler table. Full details of the hotel can be viewed at http://www.newlanarkhotel.co.uk/
Accommodation is of course available at the hotel and they also have available Self Catering “Waterhouses” and in fact there is even a luxury Youth Hostel if you are that way inclined. There are also many B & B’s in Lanark itself and the surrounding area. New Lanark is readily accessed from the M74, the M8 and the Peebles/Selkirk area via the A72/A721.
So very much a come as you wish affair. Organisation will be kept to the minimum as will restrictions – in fact there are none – as they used to say in the good old Dennis Wheatley books “Do what thou wilt be the whole of the rule”. I look forward to seeing you there!!
Cheers John

[Stig]

Let me be first to reply John and say I will be there with my son, and thanks very much for putting time and effort into arranging it.

Come on everybody else at least respond !!!!!!

Cheers


Stig

[John W]

Yes, well done John for arranging it .... I'm afraid I can't make it this time as we are already booked to go away that weekend (Spain – and I can't see me surviving the conversation if I told my wife I was cancelling it!)....however, hope everyone who does get to New Lanark has a great time....cheers. John W

[gizmo]

Hi John and Stig

have booked will bring Wife and Son. See you there at 1200 Hrs or there abouts.

Atb Gizmo

[Murphy The Cat]

nice one John

Sadly, I won't be able to attend as I'm on a touring holiday of Nevada, Arizona and California when you're having the meetup.

good luck folks and have a great time.

[propus]

Hi John, Thanks for the invite, but myself and the Micra will be unable to attend. I have yet another stagger which looks set to be on that weekend. If my plans change then I may well turn up after a nice long 988cc 4th gear only drive

[Greenheugh]

I'll see you all there. I've only ever seen about half a dozen 300C's in my life.
G.

[Greenheugh]

Murphy, make sure they give you a decent car. I booked an "upgrade to 4wd" for a USA skiing holiday once and they tried to give me a Suzuki Vitara. My friend noticed just in time and we took a Ford Expedition instead.
G.

[florin_m]

i'll be there too

[Murphy The Cat]

Originally Posted by Greenheugh

Murphy, make sure they give you a decent car. I booked an "upgrade to 4wd" for a USA skiing holiday once and they tried to give me a Suzuki Vitara. My friend noticed just in time and we took a Ford Expedition instead.
G.

I've booked a luxury class vehicle (mid range 300), so i should be OK. On my travels, I prefer luxury over ruggedness, so if I get a Lincoln TownCar, Cadillac DTC, 300 ETC ETC, I'll be a happy bunny. Of course, if its a 300C, I'll be VERY happy.