Bonfire night Fleece Bretforton

Any body going to the fleece at Bretforton nr Evesham Nov 3rd .Traditional bonfire night celebrations stationary engines and lamps and plenty of em usually .beautiful setting and very friendly

 

I might go for a look around. I'm not sure yet though, I may be out that day.

 

Oh come on Stan! I am just getting over the jet-lag after getting back from Ashover. Loved Ashover well! Take care mate and my regards to you all. Steve - in the deep South.

 

Sure thats not the gin steve

pete

 

I'm hopping to be there with a few lanterns and a stove or two to make the Tea on.

Si

 

When are you setting out, Si..?

 

No David, I still have a three to one ratio of stoves to lamps, but I take the lamps out in the dark winter months and the stoves in the summer. Although we really ought to get the more stovies to display at Ashover as it really is a nice weekend out.

Si

 

OK, Si - what I meant was, when are you leaving your house to arrive at Bretforton for the 3rd November?

Don't worry about it, though - just me being a smartarse (again!)

 

Sorry David miss read your post! With me being both dispraxic and dyslxic life is always a challenge
I shall be setting out early on the Sat morning with two sat navs and a printed map and writen directions. I shall also be taking the daughter with me again to navigate.

Si

 

A woman and two SatNavs? - brave man, they'll only end up arguing with each other!

It's a bit too far for me/us up here in the cold and wet north-east so let's see some piccies when you get back...

 

No problems, the daughter is taking a GCSE in photography so expect some arty pics.

Si

 

I feel like I've got to come seeing as it's only 15 miles away. I won't be bringing a display but I will try and visit at some point during the event. Si, do you have one sat nav set with a male voice and one with a female voice, just so you don't feel outnumbered.

 

No I really like the Ozzy Osborne voice but with all the bad language I can't have it on with the daughter in the car.

Si

 

I never learnt any bad language from my sat nav. I just shout it at it. Being a mechanic it was part of the college course knowing which words you should use to get certain bolts undone.

 

Oh yes, the dreaded work shop incantations. Different ones for nuts that won’t undo, engine parts that burn you and special ones fro hot coolant in the eyes. I remember it as if it were yesterday. I just used to throw the offending spanner or screw driver at the wall. As I spent more time on jobs the wall got filled painted and a lot less dinted. Happy days in a wet garage pit.




Si

 

I prefer my tools to hit something soft when I get angry. That is what an apprentice is for.

 

I will be going, and my wife has promised to come with me to drive me home... I'll be the one with the bright shiny brass X246B/500 in one hand and a pint of real ale in the other!

Phil

 

I can only assume that means you'll be polishing it before the show, Phil...

 

I plan to be there on saturday for the day. I will take a few lamps to play with and a few more to rehome.

 

Yes I will, David, but unless the new 606/500 vapouriser arrives from Base Camp soon, I won't be bringing it at all! It might be an X246 instead; I got a nice speculum-plated one last week which I fettled and lit tonight.

 

Was a bit damp down at the fleece last night but a enjoyable evening was had by those who braved the weather nice to catch up with some members off here as well
Never really got round to see all the lamps but took a few pictures to post here



cheers pete

 

Yes, definitely a great night and it was nice to meet you Pete and Stan the Engine Man, as well as several others with some great lamp displays. My wife Claire was fascinated by the lamps, and she wants to go to Ashover next year. How can I disappoint her?!

 

Looks like a good meet-up! Where did the long distance travellers stay on Saturday night?

I spy at least one highly desirable lamp I've been after for ages and one highly unusual one.

Answers on a postcard please...

 

I think I know which two you mean David. I would also love to have that ML in the oak base. You may also like to know that same person had This on his display for sale. It strikes again and it had some similar concoctions with it. The other unusual one I am guessing is one on Mick's stand. I think he had packed it away by the time I got there but it's good to see a picture on here.

 

How very perspicacious of you, Matthew - correct both times!



I recall that Frankenlamp (or an earlier incarnation) from a couple of years back - it was the least ornate one of 3-4 the same seller had on eBay around that time. The others showed much more imagination and skill in their conception and realisation - I quite liked them but that wasn't the general view around here (nowt changes, eh! )

Is he still making them..?

 

I have to agree with Matthew... I don't like the idea of potentially destroying vintage lamps that could have been restored in order to create a one-off that was never made commercially. The twin-Tilley on the stand used the tops sawn off from two pork-pie founts. Let's hope the originals were scrappers, as these are getting rare. No need to help the process along by wrecking even more.

It's a pity that people are willing to pay such high prices for this type of thing, which will merely encourage more of the same.

 

I agree, although I don't think yer average X246 pork-pie is going to be rare any time soon.

What also amazes me is the price people are prepared to pay for fairly everyday lanterns that have been polished to bu&&ery - into something they never were, not even on the day they were made. There are 2-3 perpetrators of this kind of vandalism on eBay right now and the prices they get for their shiny trinkets clearly encourages them to persist.

One of the perps is a well-respected collector and what he did recently to a Tilley Jacobean (by no stretch of the imagination an everyday lamp) beggared belief - in my book anyway.

 

At the time Phil, that link was put in another post on here. However soon after, it reappeared a second time on ebay and as far as I can remember it didn't get a single bid so I would say that the first sale was a dud. As for the topic of polishing, I have to admit that I do my fair share as some members here will already know. I would only ever do this to lamps that are at current fairly common (X246's, TL10's and bowl fires). As all my lamps are kept in the house I think that they have to look respectable and if that means polishing then that is what I do. I would never touch my IL33, VL1's or anything else in that area with a polishing machine for certain and not even autosol on the VL's. That is the way I see it anyway so yes the recent Jacobean was a great shame but as has been said before what someone does to their lamp is up to them and we cannot control it, unfortunately. Now then i've got one of those X246B's polished to bu&&ery that I need to list on ebay.

 

Ah, now, buying a lamp cheap and then polishing it yourself is one thing - as you say, it's your lamp and you can do with it what you will.

But paying around £180 for an already polished common or garden lantern is another thing altogether...

 

Now, getting back to the original thread, Thanks Pete for the pics, great ones . The weather in them does not look terribly bad, but I expect that you picked your moment to take them (as we all would), It is wonderful to see Stan the Engine Man doing his Tarzan impersonations again Wish that I could heve been there . Steve.