Saturday, 20th April, 2024
Today has been the end of an era for me. I joined the North West Model Shipwrights Society about 32 years ago, although I made my first visit there as a guest 42 years ago when I was still at sea.
As the years rolled by, interest in model shipbuilding went into a sharp decline, and was mainly confined to kits in the end.
At the Society meeting today, that was also the annual general meeting, the society was renamed North West Model Society, the term “shipwrights” being dropped. There were only nine members present, two aircraft models and one tugboat model. The meetings will continue, but will cover all types of model – not just ships. We meet once a month in Grimsargh, Lancashire. But I guess this is the beginning of the end.
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“Life at best is but an enigma, and like children pursuing a “Will O’ The Wisp,”so do we all pursue the illusive beacon light of a brighter and happier to-morrow – always hoping, never attaining, though striving ever until, wearied of the vain pursuit, at last we fall by the wayside and are forgotten.”
Charles Clark Munn (1847 – 1917)