WANTED – MEMBERS TO PLAN AND ORGANISE CLUB RUNS AND EVENTS. DON’T LEAVE IT ALL TO THE COMMITTEE. PLUS, WE NEED A NEW SECRETARY TO HELP AT OUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS. CAN YOU HELP?
JANUARY 2026
NOTE: Essex club events are shown in BLUE and Suffolk club events in GREEN All non-club organised events are in BLACK
Thursday 1st January Our traditional New Years Day run from Writtle Church meeting at 10am for departure about 11am for approximately 30 mile run to a lunch stop. This will be at the Angel Inn, Broomfield,
Wednesday 7th Suffolk Club night at The Greyhound, Ixworth
Thursday 15th Essex Club DAYTIME meeting at the Old Chelmsfordians. NB. Just for January and February we are trying out a daytime meeting from 12.15 to 3.15 pm. You’re welcome to bring your lunch with you or order a takeaway. Kitchen available to make a hot drink or heat your food . Bring your Austin if the weather is kind.
Saturday 17th Workshop Day. Back at normal location – Peter’s garage from 10am.
FEBRUARY 2026
NOTE: Essex club events are shown in BLUE and Suffolk club events in GREEN All non-club organised events are in BLACK
Wednesday 4th Suffolk Club night at The Greyhound, Ixworth
Wednesday 11th. Valentines Day run. Meet Blackmore Tearooms 10am for 11am departure. 30 to 35 mile run to the Green Man at Toot Hill for lunch. Contact Peter Lawson to book. Please view the Lunchtime Special menu on https://www.thegreenmanandcourtyard.com/#menu NOTE : FULLY BOOKED
Saturday 14th Workshop Day. Peter’s Garage from 10am. Contact Peter Lawson. Phone and email address is in Chassis.
Tuesday 17th 2pm Committee meeting. Please let us know if there is anything you would like us to discuss and in particular if you would like to stand for any of the committee vacancies.
Thursday 19th Essex club DAYTIME meeting 12.15 to 3.15pm at the Old Chelmsfordians AND a Run beforehand.
MARCH 2026
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Wednesday 4th Suffolk Club night at The Greyhound, Ixworth
Thursday 19th Essex and Suffolk Club Annual General Meeting at the Old Chelmsfordians. NOTE: Daytime meeting again 12.15 to 3.15
Sunday 22nd A Spring Countryside Run. Organised by Debbie and Paul. Meet at Cressing Temple Barns from 10am for 11am departure to the Victory Inn, Wickham St Paul for lunch.
Sunday 22nd. Lodges Coaches Classic Car show. High Easter.
APRIL 2026
NOTE: Essex club events are shown in BLUE and Suffolk club events in GREEN All non-club organised events are in BLACK
Wednesday 1st Suffolk Club night at The Greyhound, Ixworth
Saturday 4th Workshop Day at Peter’s garage from 10am. Any new members wishing to come please contact Peter Lawson for details.
Saturday 4th New – Vintage and Classic Coffee Meet at GD Culpin, Vintage Motor and Engineering Co Ltd, Lavender Farm, Ford End. Chelmsford CM3 1LL. Due to limited space all cars must be registered . Contact info@gdculpin.co.uk For more information of the company visit www.gdculpin.co.uk
Sunday 5th Museum of Power Classic Car Show. Langford, Maldon. https://www.museumofpower.org.uk/vehicles-exhibitors-online-application-form/
Monday 13th to Thursday 23rd. Tour of the Netherlands
Thursday 16th Essex Club meeting at the Old Chelmsfordians. 12.15 to 3.15pm. A Noggin and Natter plus a Quiz. This is the last meeting in the DAYTIME. Next month we will revert back to the evenings until the clocks go back. Bring your lunch or heat something up in the kitchen where you can make yourself a hot drink too. NOTE : As in Australian culture our meetings are now BYO. (Bring your own beer mug or wine glass too).
Sunday 26th National Drive it Day. Essex and Suffolk members meet up on the borders of our counties for a drive criss-crossing both counties followed by lunch. Please let Peter Lawson know if you want to join us. We meet at Assington Tea Rooms near Sudbury and finish the run with a lunch at the Lamarsh Lion near Bures.
MAY 2026
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Wednesday 6th Suffolk Club night at The Greyhound, Ixworth
Saturday 9th Classic Car Show at Silver End Scout Headquarters, Silver Street, CM8 3QQ 10am to 2pm. Arrive by 9.30 if exhibiting. To show your car please visit www.1stsilverend.org.uk/carshow
Sunday 10th Lodges Coaches Classic Car show. High Easter.
Wednesday 13th Tillingham Tool Run. A visit to Cummins and Jenkins tool store followed by lunch in Bradwell on Sea and if time allows a visit to St Peters Chapel. Meet White Elm garden centre Bicknacre. 10am for 11am departure. Contact Peter Lawson for further details and to book your place.
Thursday 21st Essex Club EVENING meeting at the Old Chelmsfordians from 7pm. We have our first speaker of the year to entertain you this evening. The subject is Richard the Third – Saint or Sinner? An enthralling talk by Joanne Larner who has researched over 250 books on the subject and she presents the questions and mysteries surrounding his character and alleged crimes. Did he usurp the throne? Did he murder his brother(s)? Did he poison his wife to marry his niece? Was he the ruthless tyrant of Shakespeare? Did he murder the ‘Princes in the Tower’? Come along for an entertaining evening and remember we are now BYO, (Bring your own beer, wine or whatever, plus beer mug or tankard).
Saturday 23rd Motor Vehicles from the Last Century at Little Totham. Come and join this lovely little show with your Austins. Click on the links for more information and an entry form. 2026 Little Totham Car Show Invitation Letter 230526 – 2026 Terms & Conditions (& other information) – 2026-little-totham-car-show-entry-form-230526
Friday 29th to Sunday 31st The Austin Rally at Stonehurst Family Farm and Museum. Mountsorrel. Leicestershire. Entry forms available on the PWA7C website.
JUNE 2026
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Wednesday 3rd Suffolk Club night at The Greyhound, Ixworth
Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th 1940s Weekend at North Weald Station. https://www.eorailway.co.uk/events/wartime-and-rationing-weekend/
Saturday 13th Panfield Village Fete The organisers would love some of our Austin Sevens to exhibit alongside other vintage and classic cars for their traditional and well supported annual fete. We’ve been asked to become a main attraction too by parading around the central arena accompanied by an historical commentary. The show is open from 12 to 4pm and exhibitors need to be in place at least an hour before. If you are interested in attending please contact Mike Yeulett of the Panfield Fete Committee on 07562 6677945 before the end of March.
Sunday 14th June. Little Waltham Classic Car Show and Open Gardens in aid of Farleigh Hospice. We get a good number of Austin 7s at this show, so if you are a member of the public reading this and are perhaps hankering after owning one, then come along and talk to our members.
Thursday 18th Essex Club Evening meeting 7 to 10pm at the Old Chelmsfordians. Bring your Sevens along for the Alternative Concours night. Criteria to determine the winner will be decided on the night but it won’t be for the most perfect car. Remember we are now BYO.
Sunday 21st Club Run. Details to follow.
Sunday 28th The 63rd National Austin Seven Rally at Beaulieu, Hampshire SO42 7ZN. This year’s featured models are Austin Seven Specials. Make a weekend of it and camp, caravan or book a B&B.
Tuesday 30th Members of the EA7C plus their Austins are invited to celebrate the 90th birthday of our appropriately named friend John Austin at Stow Maries Air Museum. More details closer to the time.
JULY 2026
NOTE: Essex club events are shown in BLUE and Suffolk club events in GREEN All non-club organised events are in BLACK
Wednesday 1st Suffolk Club night at The Greyhound, Ixworth
Friday 3rd to Monday 6th. Scottish Austin 7 Club’s 55th National Rally at Guildtown, Perthshire. Moved so as not to clash with Beaulieu. Change your oil after Beaulieu then make your way north!
Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th Boxford Classic and Vintage Rally in Suffolk. Details and entry forms at https://boxfordrally.co.uk
Saturday 4th Somersham Wheelie Fun Day. Annual car show and family fun day. Display your car for free amongst a vast range of other vehicles at Somersham near Ipswich. For more information click on https://autoanimals.co.uk/swfd If members visit the site or email swfd@autoanimals.co.uk and let us know their details, we will make sure they are registered for this year’s show and if they tell us they are members of EA7C, we will endeavour to group them together.
Sunday 5th Museum of Power Classic Car and Country Show. Langford Maldon.
Wednesday 15th Classics on the Common. Galleywood, Chelmsford.
Thursday 16th Essex Club Evening meeting 7 to 10pm at the Old Chelmsfordians. We have another entertaining speaker for this evening who will recount stories and amusing anecdotes of his time as a guitarist in the 60s. A talk by David Caulfield “The Semi-Pro Sixties”, on how David started playing the guitar and those formative experiences in the early sixties playing in groups. Based on his book of the same name this talk is packed with funny stories and amusing recollections of those exciting times interspersed with him playing and singing. Don’t forget that we are now BYO (Bring your own bottle, can or whatever). Tea and coffee also available.
Sunday 19th Our club has been invited by the Austin Counties Car Club to join them at Layer Marney Towers on the final day of their Annual Rally. I suggest we meet up beforehand for a coffee and impress them by turning up as a group. Further details to be confirmed nearer the time. Please contact Peter Lawson if you’re interested.
Monday 26th to Friday 31st. Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex members Warners break at Studley Castle, Warwickshire. Organised by Norfolk A7 Club. (Fully booked)
AUGUST 2026
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Sunday 2nd Five Parishes Show at Peldon near Abberton. The organisers would love to have our cars on display again and as this is their 90th anniversary they are inviting the Triumph Owners Club too plus other classic cars. A great show for our club as the children always look forward to us giving them rides around the arena.
Wednesday 5th Suffolk Club night at The Greyhound, Ixworth
Sunday 9th Morris Dancing Tour. A welcome return for our Austin Sevens to join this great fun run driving from pub to pub following the Morris dancing group and Morris Minor club and ending with Sunday lunch. Start and finish in Maldon. Further details to follow but put this date in your diary now.
Saturday 15th Grand Classic Vehicle Show at Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker.
Thursday 20th Essex Club Evening meeting 7 to 10pm at the Old Chelmsfordians.
Monday 31st Bank Holiday Countess of Warwick Show at Little Easton.
SEPTEMBER 2026
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Wednesday 2nd Suffolk Club night at The Greyhound, Ixworth
Thursday 17th Essex Club Evening meeting 7 to 10pm at the Old Chelmsfordians
OCTOBER 2026
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Wednesday 7th Suffolk Club night at The Greyhound, Ixworth
Thursday 15th Essex Club meeting at the Old Chelmsfordians
NOVEMBER 2026
NOTE: Essex club events are shown in BLUE and Suffolk club events in GREEN All non-club organised events are in BLACK
Wednesday 4th Suffolk Club night at The Greyhound, Ixworth
Thursday 19th Essex Club meeting at the Old Chelmsfordians
DECEMBER 2026
NOTE: Essex club events are shown in BLUE and Suffolk club events in GREEN All non-club organised events are in BLACK
Wednesday 2nd Suffolk Club night at The Greyhound, Ixworth
Thursday 17th Essex Club Christmas meeting at the Old Chelmsfordians
JANUARY 2027
Friday 1st New Years Day Run from Writtle church.
Essex and Suffolk Austin Seven Club 