March 2025 Meeting
Saturday 29 March 2025
Falconwood Community Centre
Falconwood
This was one of our informal quarterly meetings where our members showed off their latest Meccano creations.
At around 2:00pm we had a short committee meeting, followed by the Model Tour in which members were invited to give a short talk about their models — in particular their entries for the Secretary’s Challenge!
At around 3:30pm Alan Wenbourne gave a talk entitled My Meccano Years, a chronological account of the more significant models he has built since 1946.
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.