Programme for 2011

Our social programme is full and varied. Full details can be found by regularly reading SS News in the Jaguar Driver. The provisional programme for 2011 is as follows:

12th June DH Moth Club Charity Flying Day at RAF Halton, near Wendover, Bucks. Display and short demonstration runs with flights in DH Moths etc proceeds to charity. The Register is invited to attend the event and put on a display. We are proposing a Register Dinner on the Saturday at the Red Lion, High Street, Wendover, Bucks HP22 6DU, tel 01296 622266, where accommodation can be arranged. A visit to the Chiltern Brewey is also being planned. Please contact Nic Drukker – details here.

6th – 7th August SS Annual Weekend (held in conjunction with the Club’s National Day and Weekend) at Rockingham Castle, nr Market Harborough in Leicestershire (postcode LE16 8TH) which boasts an absolutely genuine mediaeval castle and fine grounds in which to hold our prestige annual event. Also there is nearby a Speedway where we will be holding a track day on the Friday to be followed by a barbecue in the evening. On Saturday there will be a scenic tour organised by the Club's local Area (44) and a Club Dinner in the evening. Then, of course, there is National Day and SS Annual Day on the Sunday.

Full details of everything happening at this event will be published in Club News in the 'Jaguar Driver' over the coming months and a full colour advertisement will appear in each issue. For information about Rockingham Castle, go to its website at www.rockinghamcastle.com.

The venue for our Saturday evening Club Dinner is the Holiday Inn Corby which is very close to Rockingham. We have also reserved rooms at the hotel for those wishing to stay the night before going on to the event at Rockingham on Sunday. To book the dinner and accommodation (£149.50 per couple) call Club HQ at Luton 01582 419332 and they will arrange everything for you. Please mention that you are from the SS Register when doing so.

20th - 21st August DH Moth Club Flying weekend at Belvoir Castle - a major new flying event at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire and the JDC is invited to that as well. I am still awaiting more details and will publish them in the Jaguar Driver as soon as they are to hand. If this is likely to be of interest to you, please do get in touch with Nic Drukker and he'll let you have what further information is available.

2nd -11th Sept The SS Register's main annual Tour in the Brecon Beacons in mid and south Wales. We are staying at the Lamphey Court Hotel, Lamphey, near Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales SA71 5NT (website - www.lampheycourt.co.uk) from 2nd to 5th September inclusive and then at the Three Salmons Hotel, Bridge Street, Usk, Monmouthshire NP15 1RY (website - www.threesalmonshotelusk.co.uk) from 6th to 10th September inclusive. These are ideal bases for our daily Tours. The full programme is being worked on at the moment but will include Abergavenny, Brecon, Carreg Cennan, Crickhowell, Hay, St. Davids, Tretower and Usk which means we'll ve spoilt for choice for castles and cathedrals! We will also visit Blaenavon World Heritage Site & Big pit, the Vale of Rheidol narrow-gauge steam railway, the Pembrokeshire coast and the Flying Boat Centre at Pembroke Dock. The price is yet to be fixed but will be in the region of £900 per person. We will be publishing more information in forthcoming issues of SS News in the 'Jaguar Driver', but you are welcome to get in touch with Nic Drukker for un up-date.

In addition, on the 2nd Thursday of every month throughout the year, we have a general meeting for the Register at the Holly Bush, Potters Crouch, St Albans Herts. We are the only Register to do this and, although it is long way for many Members, everyone is welcome to join us at this quintessentially English Pub, very close to St. Albans, for our monthly get together. It is always an informal and lively meeting and enhanced because our 'other halves' regularly join us. The pub is run by Club Member Ray Taylor and his wife Karen and their daughter Vanessa and son-in-law Steve. It is really one of the nicest pubs in the whole area and the menu is excellent - so we tend to eat there as well!

For map of how to get there go into www.streetmap.co.uk and quote the postcode for the Holly Bush - AL2 3NN. Also see the Holly Bush's own website www.thehollybushpub.co.uk.