Saturday & Sunday - 12th & 13th
July 2008
The Ardingly Vintage & Classic Vehicle Show, Ardingly Showground, Ardingly, Sussex. Contact Audrey Frampton
01273 306817. (This show is jointly sponsored by the Morris Register
and Horsham Historics Preservation Society). For more details,
click here.
National Rally - Thoresby Park
South Coast Run - Dorking to Newhaven
Sunday - 3rd March 2008
The 46th running of the annual run to the south coast (the second
running in the guise of the Morris Register "South Coast Run") again started at the foot of Box
Hill, Surrey (just north of Dorking on the A24). The 60 mile
route ran south to the coast at Shoreham and then east via Brighton
to a finish at Newhaven.
This run started as the Morris
8 Tourer Club's "London to Brighton Run". In it's early
years, it started in Central London
and finished on Brighton seafront. Difficulties with both start
and finish locations saw the start move from central London to Battersea Park and subsequently to Merton
Abbey Mills and the finish move to the Greyhound
Stadium at Hove and subsequently the University
of Sussex - Falmer Campus, on the downs north east of Brighton.
As with other start locations, continued use
of the Merton Abbey Mills site became untenable, so the decision
was taken to move the start for the 2007 run further along the
established route to its current location beneath Box Hill and extend the finish along the coast to Newhaven.
Having moved the start outside the ring of the M25, renaming the run as the "South Coast Run" seemed appropriate.
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| Sunday 3rd March 2007 - 09:45 Ready for the
start (and a dry day!)
(Photos - Jim Riglar)
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| On the road. Coffee stop - Duke's Head, Beare Green
(Photos - Jim Riglar)
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| Along the coast ...........................to the finish at Newhaven
Fort
(Photos - Jim Riglar)
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