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

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April Photo Shoot

For April’s photo shoot a suggestion has been made to visit the Critch Tramway Village  (it’s not too far away). There is a 1940s event on Sunday 20th April (Yes, I know it’s Easter Sunday). Meet at Poynton Civic Centre car park at 09:00 (the event opens at 10:00) or alternatively if you some of you

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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.

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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

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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

Talk by Leigh Preston at Oldham PS – Thurs 13th March

  Oldham Photographic Society Presents Leigh Preston FRPS MPAGB EFIAP MPSA “Is This It ?”  on: Thursday March 13th 2014 at 7.30 pm at North Chadderton Conservative Club (The Blue Club), Victoria Street, Chadderton OL9 0HH Tickets : £3.00 at the door  Leigh has been 'taking and making' pictures for over thirty years and is

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Photographic Exhibition

There is a Photographic Exhibition "Northern Exposure" at the Portico Library, Manchester from March 5th to 29th. It features Adrian McGary who recently gave the the Ncps a presentation. Northern Exposure Exhibition

By |2024-02-09T18:51:08+00:00February 25th, 2014|Opportunities|Comments Off on Photographic Exhibition
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