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  1. SweenyTod1

    I Hi Pete suppose there was a chance we were in Tony's shop at the same time? I joined the South Hants MRC in about 1973 and lived in Southsea until !977, when we moved "over the hill" to Waterlooville. I still visited Tony's until his passing, when I was either on leave or during  shore duties in Pompey. I "left" the club when they went EM, whereby the 00 members were too much of a fringe group with our tram interest.

    Moving swiftly on, the knowledge I gained from the original SHMRC was the best thing I could have done. I learned so much, including where to go to get all the bits and pieces.  50 years down the line  and I'm still at it, though the collection of unbuilt or part built projects, hide away in boxes. Arthritis in the digits can be annoying, apart from painful sometimes, could be an excuse. The "boss's" job list, diplomatically, dictates what I can fit in!!

    Happy modelling,

    Tod

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      PJT

      You'd have seen me in Tony Collett's sometimes late afternoons on weekdays, or more likely Saturday afternoons, because I spent all my school years in Portsmouth (we had school on Saturday mornings as well as in the week).  I'd walk to Winter Road after school and then have a long trek to Portsmouth & Southsea station afterwards to get the train home.  I felt very empty when I went back a few years later and found both Tony and the shop had gone.  We were well blessed with good model shops in Pompey around that time, weren't we?  Tony Collett did all the components and kits, from easy to seriously complicated, Fratton Bargain Shop had all the exotic stuff like Fleischmann and Marklin with a fair range of Hornby, and Robin Thwaites' in Arundel Street had loads of Airfix kits and Hornby along with - very, very unusual in those days - a full range of Grafar N Gauge.  Did you know Robin was also the saviour of Godshill Model Village on the Isle of Wight, buying it and restoring it with funds from his shop from the late 1960s onwards. 

       

      I've always kind-of ploughed my own furrow with railway modelling - never really been a club sort of person, though I'd readily concede I might well have got further more quickly if I had been a club member.  I do enjoy local shows which, of course, are usually club-organised.  For me, as a hobby railway modelling is just like gardening (which I also enjoy) because, as my Dad used to say, 'Doesn't matter what worries you've got, within half an hour of working in the garden you've forgotten them all.'  I've always found model making has exactly the same result. 

       

      I remember one day, some years ago, when I had a day off work and decided to hang everything and spend the whole day modelling.  My Pam went to work in the morning, leaving me putting tiles on the roof of a model building.  She came home in the evening and... I was still putting tiles on the roof.  There were also a couple of really good plays on the radio that day to listen to while I worked.  I genuinely could not have been more contented.   Pam quotes that story to friends when she feels a mischievous need to put me in my place.  I know I am, though, exceedingly lucky to have a partner who's always delighted to see me modelmaking.

       

      Enjoy your modelling, too.

       

      Pete T.

           

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