Harrogate 2025 ??

[Kevin HunterParticipant @kevinhunter33456]

Despite murmurs of a date change, this never did happen in 2024, sadly.  And I’ve not seen anything about it for ‘25 yet.   Nothing on the Yorkshire Event Centre website nor Donny racecourse.

Are we to assume that the “National” MEE in Harrogate or, as it was for a while, Doncaster, is now dead and gone forever?

R.I.P.

 

 

[PlasmaParticipant @plasma]

It would be good to know if there are plans for any show in the north.

I went to the Leamington spa show last year and it seemed well attended.

Surely there is appetite for a show up here?

 

[BazParticipant @baz89810]

With all this merging of ME and MEW into a hybrid magazine will Morton’s still be interested in a Model Engineering Exhibition and what will happen to all the cups, trophies etc that used to be awarded. Maybe they should be donated to whoever now organises the Midlands exhibition in October, that way they will still be competed for.

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

I recall it was a long time before the 2023 one appeared on the YEC web-site calendar, then last year the YEC managers totally ignored it when they created the same site’s album of the previous year’s shows. By telephone call directly to the YEC, I learnt the late publicity was due to late confirmation from the exhibition organiser.

So I take it no-one wanted to organise another, and that the YEC does not want it anyway.

The calendar and album suggest the YEC is now only interested in trade-shows anyway, both open to the public and those exclusive to commercial delegates.

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Doncaster Racecourse hosted it only twice, I think, while the owners of the Great Yorkshire Showground were refurbishing theirs and denigrating it to a mere “event centre”. Could be worse… could be a “hub”.

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I did attend the second Doncaster show and enjoyed it once there, but vowed never to risk driving through that city again. (The racecourse is a nightmare to reach from the M1.) It also had the highest-price, lowest-value snack-bar I’ve encountered even in London exhibition-halls or motorway services, but anything equine-related means £££ by the muck-shovel full.

On the other hand I enjoyed the 2023 Harrogate exhibition, which is easy to reach even from the West, through the city.

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About three years ago there was a rumour of talk of holding an exhibition in the South-West, but I think it was only talk – or only rumour of talk.

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