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Tuesday 17 November 2009
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Tonight we were due to have a visit by Geoscenics, but the proprietor was confined to his sickbed, so Peter stepped in at short notice with a picture show of many and various locomotives, going back twenty years and more. Our favourite was No.4472 Flying Scotsman, which received a resounding cheer from all but one of our number, who unaccountably has a severe dislike of this magnificent machine, so in need of our financial support to prevent it from finally falling apart.

Peter used a strange but wonderful mechanical contraption called a 'slide projector' to light up the wall with coloured images. This modern technology will never catch on...