JEC Surrey Region - Father's Day Motors and Music with the Jaguar Enthusiasts' Club and Hemley Hillbillies
The Event
It will certainly be more than ‘Jaguars in a field’ with Region areas, Model anniversary displays (XKs, XJ40s, X-Types), support from the JDHT, exhibitors, catering and all of the Museum to explore. The field we will be using (Skipping’s Field) is central to the Museum (see map later on).
There may be the opportunity for passenger rides (for a donation to JDHT) and possibly a ‘most loved Jaguar {or Daimler}’ competition.
The Chiltern Open Air Museum
The Museum is celebrating too, being 50 years old this year, having been founded by volunteers from the Chiltern Society in 1976. The Museum is a charity that rescues threatened historic buildings that would otherwise be demolished, rebuilding and preserving them within a traditional Chilterns landscape.
Presently there are some 40 buildings & many more in storage awaiting their chance to shine. With buildings from Harpenden Well Head & Leagrave Cottages from the North, Didcot Cart Shed & Thame Vicarage Room from the West, Finsbury Park Bandstand & Hammersmith Blythe Road Pavilion from the East and Henley Garage & Arborfield Barn from the South, there’s going to be a building there from near you !
The buildings on site range all the way from the Iron Age Roundhouse, through the Tudor, Georgian and Victorian eras to the 1960s Prefab that all too many of us can well remember. It’s also been a familiar film location, starring in Horrible Histories, Grantchester, Call the Midwife, Midsomer Murders, My Lady Jane, Downton Abbey, Taskmaster, and Mary Queen of Scots, to name just a few.
Exhibitors & Displays
We’ve already mentioned the Region displays, the XJ40, XK and X-Type gatherings and the significant contributions of the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust.
Naturally, we hope Members’ own vehicles will include many rare and special examples of Jaguars and Daimlers.
Inevitably, with 4 months still to go, we are busy getting confirmations from other exhibitors. We are keeping our fingers crossed for:
Startermotor
U17 Car Club
JLR Armed Forces Network
Mission Motorsport
Electrogenic
Pendine Cars
Private Individual – Austin Swallow• Chiltern Jaguar, Stokenchurch
Callum - CX-75
Moss Jaguar
E&E Services
Tom Lenthal
And More !
He’s neither an Exhibit or an Exhibitor of course, but we are grateful too that our Club Chairman, Peter Leake, will also be joining us.
It’s Fathers’ Day Indeed, But What About the Family ??
We fully appreciate that not all of your entourages are going to be obsessives or petrol-heads. So what is there for them ?
Over and above the food & drink, the museum buildings and the music, the answer is lots ! If those ideas come off, there will be the passenger rides & choosing that ‘most loved’ Jaguar. But then there’s:
Adventure playground.
Dressing up kits in many of the buildings.
Kids’ Brass Rubbing Trail.
Sculpture Trail
Woodland Walk
Orienteering Course
Gardens & Orchards
Play with historic toys
Victorian School House experience
Family room with colouring
Baby changing & breast feeding facilities
Farm animals & wildlife
Also, dogs on short leads are welcome but not in the houses please.
Event Pricing
A VERY attractive price of just £7 per person. There’s not many places these days that a family of 4 can get into a wonderful attraction for less than £30 !
This per person fee is less than half the Adult Member of the public price.
Quite understandably therefore, this offer is restricted to JEC Members, their family and others that may make up their party.
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