LINCOLNSHIRE OIL ENGINE CLUB
NEWSLETTER
STARTED JUNE 2008
COMPLETED FEBRUARY 2009

Members and prospective members
Welcome to the first Newsletter since early 2008.
The move from Vice Chairman to Secretary has brought with it a lot more work as previous secretary’s will well know !!
My secretarial tasks include producing newsletters, a Rally List and supplying material to put onto the website – which I haven’t had a chance to do since last year. I did spend a good few hours with Peter Coney – our Website creator earlier last year to learn how to put photos on the site but as yet haven’t been able to do that, If you have any digital photos that you would like to go onto the website then email them to Peter (details are on the website).
I also do the refreshments at Club Meeting nights when we are at Wragby Town Hall – luckily there are some very kind and dedicated people there who help me out with that – both serving teas, coffees and biscuits AND helping to wash up and dry too.
You know who you are and I very much appreciate your help on those nights. It by no means goes unnoticed

I now have a NEW address, telephone and e-mail
Mr. N.L.Wood (LOEC Club Secretary)
Co-Op Flat 3
Lambeth House
Woodhall Drive
LINCOLN
Lincolnshire
LN2 2AD
Tel 01522 567698, Mobile 07849 838275 ,E-mail wood_n5@sky.com

For those who may be thinking of joining,
here’s what you missed last year in addition to shows/rallys help and advise which is always available

March 2008 – Mike Cottingham gave us a talk and slideshow about the hidden wildlife in the Lincoln City area. Showing us the vast array of wildlife that is all around us even in the very heart of the City EVERY day, but we are all too busy or just unaware to notice

Bus trip to The Deep and the Transport Museum in Hull.
WOW!! That was my impression of The Deep. What an amazing place. Worth a whole day on it’s own

April 2008 – Club Barbecue at John Woodhead’s ‘Palace’ in Bardney.

May 2008 – Newark Air Museum.

.June 2008 – Club Rally at Thorpe Camp.

July 2008 – Club Night at Thorpe Culvert
(Re-named - Quincey Pumping Station – in Honour of one of our late founder members Dennis Quincey).

September 2008 – Derek Broughton (from the Museum Of  Lincolnshire Life) 
Talk on the history of steam and traction engines, from the invention of steam engineering to it’s many and varied uses in industry

October 2008 – Open Night This meeting was used as an opportunity to discuss and plan events for this year 2009.

October 2008 Bus trip
To Clay Mills Pumping Station and Papplewick pumping Station

November 2008 – A talk by former BBC Radio presenter Allen Stennett.
Allen gave us a very interesting talk with slides about the history of the Railways of Lincolnshire

December 2008 – AGM (Annual General Meeting)
After the AGM we all tucked in to our traditional Christmas buffet, with food and drink provided by everyone attending

THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED VERSION OF THE FULL NEWSLETTER
If you wish to read the full letter it can be downloaded Here as a compressed (with winRAR) word document file if you don't have a decompression program, a free one called 7zip is available from Cnet