March 2025 Meeting
Saturday 29 March 2025
12:00 noon – 5:00pm
Falconwood Community Centre
31–39 Falconwood Parade
Falconwood
London
DA16 2PG
This is one of our informal quarterly meetings where our members show off their latest Meccano creations.
Light refreshments will be available and our resident Meccano dealer Ted Muggridge will have new and used parts for sale.
At around 2:00pm we will have a short committee meeting, followed by the Model Tour in which members are invited to give a short talk about their models — in particular their entries for the Secretary’s Challenge!
At around 3:30pm Alan Wenbourne will give a talk entitled My Meccano Years, a chronological account of the more significant models he has built since 1946.
You are welcome to come along to view the models and chat to our members. If you want to bring along a model of your own, we’d love to see it! Only if you attend our meetings regularly will you be asked to pay our annual subscription charge.
Please contact our Secretary Chris Warrell if you would like membership information, or just turn up at this meeting if you’re curious and are thinking of joining us.
The Astronomy Secretary’s Challenge
On 4th March 1675 (350 years ago) King Charles II appointed John Flamsteed as his astronomical observer by Royal Warrant. The Royal Observatory at Greenwich was built and equipped, and he began observing there in 1676.
The challenge for the March meeting, therefore, is to build a model connected with astronomy.