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The Spring York meeting will be held on Saturday 17th May 2008 at the St. Bede’s Pastoral Centre, 21, Blossom Street, York. YO2 2AD - telephone 01904 – 464900. This is the usual venue, and is about a 3 minute walk away from the station. A map showing the location of the Centre is available free from Chris Woolstenholmes on receipt of a SAE. The programme for the day is as follows:-

10.00   Meeting Room opens - coffee/tea and biscuits - self-service.

11.00   “Remembering John M. Boyes” – John Midcalf presents a selection of slides from the collection of the late John Boyes, S & T Engineer, North Yorkshire Moors Railway, 1968 – 2006.

13.00   Lunch (pre-booked, see details below)

14.15   “Signalling in Hull and Its Environs” – a further instalment of images from the collection of, and presented by, Mick Nicholson, Signalman, Hull Paragon, Network Rail.

16.00   Finish of formal business

17.00   Meeting Room closes

A lunch menu will be circulated between 10.00 and 10.45 and members will be able to order a wide variety of meals, which will be ready at reserved tables in the Bar Convent, next to the Pastoral Centre.

Members are reminded that the Centre does not permit the consumption of food or drink in the Meeting Room. They may, however, wish to bring their own packed lunches to eat in the pleasant, quiet garden at the rear of the Centre. Members are encouraged to bring photographs and artefacts, books, drawings, paperwork and any other items of interest for display and discussion, exchange or sale.