Tamar Valley MG Owners Club

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <center> This site looks best when accessed with a browser that supports frames.<br>Meeting Details are as follows:<br> <center><font size=5><font color=blue><B>Meetings are the first Wednesday monthly at The Moorland Links, 8pm start.So if you live in Plymouth or surrounding area, just come along and make some new friends., Meet in the Gun Room (Bar)before the meeting.</B></font></font></center>, <b></b>, <center><u><B>About TVMGOC</center></U>, Well it all started back in 1982. Following publicity in the local press several hundred people came to Strathmore Hotel and Alan Davis of Tamar Valley Motoring Centre was the first club secretary, and the club met at the Holland Inn with a membership of about 30., Alan stayed as the club secretary for about 18 months and has continued to sponsor us ever since. Then a member called Lawrence Miller continued the job but I do not know how long for. The next secretary was Tony Savage and the club moved to the Notter Bridge Inn, taking over their newly built conservatory. I (Keith) got the job back in 1997, after Tony could not continue. I had never run a club before and only had an MG for about 9 months. It was a steep learning curve but a lot of fun., With a lot of help from Hilary and the membership, which had reduced in numbers to a dedicated few, we got the club back on it's feet, with a membership of over 50. The only thing was that the Notter Bridge was getting too small. We had taken over the bar and the conservatory. , It was time to find a new venue, not an easy thing to do. After about a year the Mayflower Inn, in Ernesettle was found not by me or Hilary, but the club Chair and the Social secretary. After the meeting in January 1999, we moved, there was plenty of room, and we had grown to a big club of over 100 members. It was good to have a large committee to help run the club at this time, with all the shows and Sunday lunchs that we were going to. I remember a show one year at Powderham when the club had over 21 MGs on the club stand, and a Sunday lunch for over 50 members. A lot of hard work but good fun! It was time for me to give up the secretary job, as some of the old members did not like it at the Mayflower, and I could see a move would not improve the club so me and the committee fell out., The club moved to the Mill at Avonwick on the A38, with a new secretary, Hilary, and Ken Vest as the clubs Chairman, Ray Wilson as the Treasurer, and Richard Huddy also on the committee. The night of the meeting was changed to the second Tuesday of the month so some of the membership could go to the MG car club meeting. I was just a member, but helped Hilary with the clubs Newsletters., We lost a lot of our membership as they did not like the Mill, and at one meeting there were only 4 members there so it was time to move again. We could not go back to the Mayflower as the South West Mini club was there now on the same night. So where can we go? It's not easy to find a suitable pub in a reasonably central location, we plotted all the members addresses on a map and stuck a pin in the middle, very close to Shaugh Prior., The move to the White Thorn, was on the February meeting of 2002, and back to the first Wednesday of the month. A lot of the old members came back, and the club was a lot stronger and with new members joining. Hilary was still doing the secretary's job and enjoying it, but after a new landlord and some new rules, the membership did not like it there. So the club moves again, this time only 2 miles up the road to the Moorland Hotel, where we are now. Mitch Ford joined the committee and Graham Hayman was the new Treasurer in 2004. It was a bad year for me and I could not make it to a lot of the shows but nice to read all the reports, there were some ups and downs in the club but I think the membership are happy with it now? , After the 2005 AGM the club got a new secretary, Mo Dickerson, I was asked to stay on as the club Chairman, to help the new committee out. I am still the Chairman and now the committee is up to 5 members with Graham Slope as Vice-Chairman, John Hunt as Social secretary and Hugh Baker. The club is doing well with a lot of new members, I am sorry that I do not know all the names, I soon will., In 2007 the club will be 25 years old and I hope that we will have a special event. Now you all know all about the Tamar Valley MG Owners Club,so if you are not a member of the club just come to one of the meetings, you will be made welcome., Keith Medland (Club Chairman) <br><a href="/clientph/brmm4.nsf/clubpages/tamarmg">Directory Home</a><br> <br><a href="/clientph/brmm4.nsf/clubpages/tamarmg?opendocument&1">Directory Contact</a><br> <br><a href="/clientph/brmm4.nsf/clubpages/tamarmg?opendocument&2">Directory News</a><br> <br><a href="/clientph/brmm4.nsf/clubpages/tamarmg?opendocument&3">Directory Events</a><br> <br><a href="/clientph/brmm4.nsf/clubpages/tamarmg?opendocument&4">Directory Clubnight</a><br> <br><a href="/clientph/brmm4.nsf/clubpages/tamarmg?opendocument&P1">Directory Photos</a><br> <br>Some useful links, related to classic and antique cars as well as general antiques: <br><a href="http://www.brmmbrmm.com" target=bb>(c) BrmmBrmm.Com - The Classic Car Network & Directory</a> <br>(c) BrmmBrmm <a href="http://www.brmmbrmm.com/directory" target=dd>Web Directory</a> - stop surfing, start motoring !<br> Today is 03/07/2009 </center> </body>