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North York Moors Railway Spring Steam Gala

The NYMR is one of the most iconic full size steam railways in Britain and runs several steam trains a day through the North York Moors National Park from Pickering to Grossmont and on to Whitby. It includes an historically important station and engine works at Grossmont and at Goathland the station that became Hogworts

By |2024-02-09T18:51:07+00:00April 23rd, 2014|Opportunities|Comments Off on North York Moors Railway Spring Steam Gala

Beamish Great North Steam Fair

I'm going to this event on Thursday 10th April It's quite a long way so if anyone wants to join me I will be pleased to have company and perhaps share costs. I'm likely to be driving Annette's BMW Z4 so can extend my offer only to one other person as it's a 2-seater metal slide-top.

By |2024-02-09T18:51:07+00:00April 4th, 2014|Opportunities|Comments Off on Beamish Great North Steam Fair

Print boxes

I'm in the market for one or two Nomad Heavy duty Photo boxes (as used by the Club) and am considering placing an order for either the two inch or, more likely, the one and a half inch which hold respectively about 15-18 and 10-12 of my competition-ready, mounted prints. Both boxes are priced at

By |2024-02-09T18:51:07+00:00April 4th, 2014|Open|2 Comments

Boxing Hares fail to make the ring

No this isn't an April fool.After the glorious weekend the weather wasn't great for our "unofficial" photo shoot in Lyme Park on Monday evening, but that didn't thwart four of our members armed with big lenses and walking boots making the 6pm rendezvous. After a couple of non-productive (motorised) laps between the entrance and the car

By |2024-02-09T18:51:07+00:00April 1st, 2014|Notices and news, Opportunities|2 Comments

Tanfield Railway (As described by Kathryn Scorah)

Check out this...... http://www.tanfieldrailway.co.uk/events.php This place, up near Beamish and Gateshead looks absolutely brilliant - if you're into this sort of thing. Not only that, but they have a Great War weekend coming up on 29th/30th March .....................and a twilight steam event on 12th Sept. I can't do the first, but why doesn't someone organise

By |2024-02-09T18:51:07+00:00March 21st, 2014|Opportunities|Comments Off on Tanfield Railway (As described by Kathryn Scorah)

Boxing Hares

A considerable head of steam seems to be building for an early evening photo shoot to bag some common (or not so common) hares during this their annual boxing season. It transpires that our very own Lyme Park is the Northern epicentre of activity. Not only that, but courtesy of the Park Rangers, we've been

By |2024-02-09T18:51:07+00:00March 21st, 2014|Opportunities|2 Comments

Oulton Park Photo Shoot

Question: How do you take 5-10,000 images in one day? Answer: You have five members of NCPS go on a photo shoot to Oulton Park for a day. Yes, between them, Barry, Dave & Linda Hockin, Joyce Streets and Rob Hockney took several thousand images on the first day of the new Racing Bike season of Track Days

By |2024-02-09T18:51:08+00:00March 20th, 2014|Meeting and event reports, Opportunities|Comments Off on Oulton Park Photo Shoot

Monthly Photo shoots

  Starting next month the Club is organising a series of regular monthly 1-day photo shoots to various locations in and around Cheshire and further afield in the UK. Dates  have yet to be fixed but will, where possible, alternate between weekdays and weekends to cater for the widest possible audience. Venues will be selected

By |2024-02-09T18:51:08+00:00February 18th, 2014|Notices and news, Opportunities|Comments Off on Monthly Photo shoots
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