PHOTO SHOOT IN POOLE

Having spent over 2 hours with modern technology, at 10 pm I have given up trying to get the photos which we took today to download to my ipad, so I will try and do that tomorrow! Well, don't know what you all did today, but we had a fantastic morning taking the 1907 from Corfe Castle, over the chain ferry at Studland and then onto the Wimborne Road in the centre of Poole. Admirers crowded around the car after Ian and Steve had taken the car off the trailer and stood it in the open at the campsite and basically it was the centre of attention for the rest of it's day out. I am getting the picture of what it is going to be like on the trip, but how wonderful that people are so interested in a vintage (probably got the wrong term)car - and Ian is so accomodating! The point of today's stop in Poole was to recreate the photo that my Gt. grandfather had taken before his 1912 trip. The Towngate Gallery and Art Shop in the Wimborne Road had kindly agreed to let us use their forecourt outside their shop, it being still of a similar era to that in the original picture. So a big thank you to Anne and Peter Hayton. Craig, David and I were in period costume - or our version of it - for the photograph with Ian in the driver's seat and my son Adam (great great grandchild of William Warn) standing in the shop doorway; picture recreated! Unfortunately, Frank the eldest great grandchild was stuck in two horrendous traffic jams and eventually took 5 hours to reach Poole from Hertfordshire. Quite in keeping with the pace of the 1907, but I don't think that is any consolation for not being with us. To join the party today we were honoured to be met by Annabel Levoux, who is the Great Great (and possibly Great) granddaughter of George Singer, the original founder of Singer. There is a lovely photo of her in the 1907, which I will post - when I can! Also, Barry Paine who helped get this whole project off the ground, and John Bramwell who joined us in his 1925 Singer 10/26. Magnificent!