This is basically addressed to those who might remember me.
I'be been adrift for a few years now mainly due to an incurable and degenerative eye condition.
Even though my eyesight is worse now, my recent purchase of an Apple iPad 2 Pro with the 13" Retina screen has given me a new lease of life.
When I completed building the Admirals Barge (whenever that was), I'd already realised that my years of model shipbuilding were at an end. Soon after that, so were my car driving days behind me.
Luckily, I can still open a tin of McEwans!
My interest in early to mid 20 th century merchant ships remains as strong as ever and so I'be been able to help out others ( Ashen asked) with plans and so on.
But what to do with my models was the big question. But the first thing to go was my replica 1954 MG TF.
I pondered long an hard about the fate of the models. I really didn't want to sell any of them. Rightly or wrongly, I just didn't fancy them simply becoming a way for unknown people to use them as a means of making a monetary profit.
So I decided to simply give them away.
Shortly after I made that decision I found out that Brian Chambers had become very involved with the new North Shields Fishing and Heritage museum. I was invited down to have a look. I was pretty stunned by the sheer professionalism of the place and immediately knew that I'd found a home for at least 2of the models. The trawler "James Cullen" and the Tyne ferry "Northumbrian". Things moved on from there and now Brian has custody of most of my other models that are now regularly exhibited in the museum.
Similarly, I've given all my machines and tools to people who I believe will most benefit from them.
I feel very content within myself with these decisions. Regards to you all. Bryan Young.