Firstly it is with great sadness that I heard that Roy Thurston, the builder of Lansdowne Green passed away on June 18th 2017. I only met him the once, although I had several telephone conversations and email exchanges with him. He was one of the very early members of the 7mmNGA (member number 14!) and a true Gentleman. Since I had promised to keep him up to date with the renovation of Lansdowne Green I am sorry that I did not manage to get it fully restored. I hope to be able to invite his family to the first working outing of the layout, once it is ready to show Work on the layout has been on a back burner as the exhibition season has been taking much of my time. However, with a huge amount of help from Chris we have replace some of the baseboard timbers, which were cracking due to age, and started to extend the board backwards to make the back scene fit in better. We have also managed to finish the modular change over board, which allows Lansdowne to be connected to Slindon, Chris's modular board The most recent achievement has been to make new transport and storage boards to allow the module to be moved around with less likelihood of damage!
Current on-going work includes a second modular interface board to allow connection to Pallingham Quay, my original Slindon module. Pallingham had a short spell as a Gn15 layout, but was built to the specifications of Slindon, so reverting to 0:16.5 will be simply a matter of adding the correct scenery! On Lansdowne Green itself I am continuing with the rearwards extension to give the back-scene more space I will review the leg supports once the board is fitted with back-scene and sidewalls, as the current legs may not be stable enough for the extended board.