Members News

Sadly, Sue passed away last Sunday after losing her battle with cancer. 

Sue and Roy returned home from the Les Abrets rally in France last September when Sue started to be ill. She bravely battled through her cancer treatment and attended many rallies to try to live her life as normal as possible.

Roy & Sue had rallied since 2017 and had made many friends in the club as they attended a lot of rallies both at home and abroad and were always fun to be with.

When possible in her last few weeks, she tried to spend as much time as she could with their two sons and their three young grandchildren.

We hope that in time Roy will continue to attend rallies with the support of all the friends they had made in the club.

Our thoughts are with Roy, their sons and families at this very sad time.

R.I.P Sue.

John Brailsford, President

The May 2026 Committee Meeting Minutes are now online. See under the GENERAL INFO, Main Page, Minutes Menu.

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The Summer 2026 edition of our magazine Going Places is now online to view and/or download. Access is by clicking on the magazine image on the General Info page.

If you download this PDF file to a mobile device you will find it very handy to have at hand wherever you are. Many years of back issues are also available on the General Info page.

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Now that the summer edition of Going Places is starting to hit the doormats I have been asked to  highlight two articles to you. 

January is a long time away but to assist the marshals they would appreciate you contacting them to show your interest in the Burns Night Rally. 

PLEASE SEE PAGE 74 of Going Places for further details. 

The online booking scheme is in the Pilot Phase due to the very favourable members responses to the demonstrations at the AGM rally. 

If you are willing to take SOME of your bookings next year this way on your rally or if you add another rally this year and are willing to trial it there then:-

PLEASE SEE PAGE 101 of Going Places for further details. 

Please note that ALL CURRENT FORMS OF BOOKING will still be available for these rallies too.”

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We have recently learnt of the sad death of Honorary Life Member Cheryl Barnard who passed away on 21st May.
Dave and Cheryl have been members since 1990 and unfortunately had to give up caravanning just a few years ago due to ill health.
They were regular ralliers and marshalled several rallies within the area of their home town of Lincoln. They also ran very popular holiday rallies abroad too, one being in Rüdesheim, Germany in 2014, where we subsequently ran a rally on the same site in 2023.
They made many friends during their 30+ years of rallying with the club so this will be a shock to many members reading this announcement.
We believe the funeral is in about a week’s time but we do not have any details yet.

Our thoughts are with Dave, their family and friends at this difficult time.
R.I.P Cheryl.

President

Message received from Terry Comber:

Annette’s funeral will be at 1 pm on the 3rd of July at
GreenAcres Colney Park
Watton Road
Norwich NR4 7TY
Which is just off the A47 towards the hospital.
There will be a wake afterwards but I don’t have detail’s yet.
Could anyone who wishes to attend please let me know so we can be aware of numbers.
I do appreciate that there are rallies on at the time.

Kind regards Terry

Terry can be contacted by text/phone call or by email.
07990 657557
or
terry.comber1@gmail.com

 

I received the very sad news from Terry Comber yesterday morning that Annette had passed away in the early hours. 
She was admitted to hospital in late February with GBS and sadly she never recovered.
Annette Watson had rallied with Terry both at home and abroad for the last few years and attended rallies all over the country. The last time we chatted to this lovely lady was at the New Year rally and a couple of weeks later they attended the Burns Night rally which sadly was to be her last.
Terry will update us with the funeral details in due course.

Our thoughts are with Terry and also Annette’s daughters and all the family at this very sad time.

R.I.P. Annette, it was a pleasure to have known you.

 

John Brailsford, President

The Rally Secretary has has updated the draft rally programme for 2027 and it is now online. It’s looking good but there are still some gaps which I’m sure Sarah would love to be filled.

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