Leasowe Castle Hotel by night.
Annual General Meeting: 20 & 21 April 2012
Leasowe Castle Hotel
General information from Tony Selman
A most successful AGM was held at the above venue and we will shortly be publishing some photographs and brief reports. In the meantime the following has been culled from The Chairman’s Log in the June 2012 QSO to give those who did not attend a flavour of the event.
The AGM itself was a great success and opinions have varied from “it was certainly one of the best” to “it was the best ever.” I think those comments are definitely at the quality end of the scale and ones we can certainly live with. The attendance for the AGM was the best for a good few years at 40 and an all comers record of 57 of us sat down for dinner. The event was admirably organised as always by Jim Loughlin and it was heart warming to see a beaming Treasurer, disguised as John Garner, as we had paid all our bills and made a slight profit – all wonderful happenings in the subterranean world of Treasurers. The afternoon visit was changed at relatively short notice to visit Fort Perch Rock in New Brighton, mainly because they had a well regarded Titanic exhibition. Even though we went there a couple of years ago the members I spoke to enjoyed the visit but we might perhaps have booked the return coach a little earlier as we stood in a distinctly nippy wind coming off the Irish Sea. Our thanks to Stan McNally for setting everything up so well for us. Our thanks also to the Leasowe Castle Hotel for once again looking after us admirably.
We have decided to hold next year’s AGM in Chelmsford. Although Leasowe has looked after us very well for 4 years several people thought we needed a change and we also hope that a change of location might bring in a few new attendees from the South East of England. Ian Channing has done some excellent leg work and the event will take place over the weekend of 26 to 28th April 2013 at The Atlantic Hotel in Chelmsford. Fuller details will be published in due course.
Badges
The use of badges this year was very popular and several members asked me to publish on the website what they looked like so that those who did not attend can see them. Can I also take this opportunity to remind AGM attendees to keep their badges for next year to reduce re-printing costs. This is page one of the proof before actually printing the badges themselves. The design is due to the ever excellent handiwork of Roger Bentley.
AGM badges.
Well done guys.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Slainte & 73′s
Colman
Hi Tony,
The news page is looking great. Nice work.
Tony,
Since the AGM is only days away from the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, this sounds a lot better than the Boat Museum. Just a thought – will ROARS members get a chance to go on the air using the equipment?
73s,
Dave.
Dave
Yes they will. Fort Perch Rock has said that is possible and advised ROARS members to bring their own keys if they would like to do so. I am sure they will have a key available but members might want to bring their own.
See message below. It is recommended you bring your own key if you want to go on air.
Look forward to seeing you at the AGM
Tony
titanic wireless room opened by Peter Bibby at Fort Perch Rock 30th March.
comment from curator of National maritime Museum Liverpool.
quote – your exhibit is better than ours at the Maritime Museum unquote.
comment from pr consultant at event.
quote -Your exhibit is the best around Liverpool and I have visited them all unquote.
dont forget your morse key if you want to go on aire
best wishes – Clive Evans Hon Secretary Marine Radio museum Society (Wirral) at
Fort Perch Rock