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The Ffestiniog Railway Society's origins can be traced back to the meeting called in Bristol at 2.30 pm on Saturday 8th September 1951 at the Bristol Railway Circle's rented club room in Clifton by seventeen year old schoolboy Leonard Heath Humphrys. This meeting is known as the Bristol Meeting. The meeting took place at St Mary's House, 36 Tyndall Park Road, Clifton, Bristol 8 (according to Gerry Nicholls, President of the Bristol Railway Circle the full name was St Mary's Church House). The Bristol Railway Circle met in one of two rooms they occupied in the basement of St Mary's House. The other room was filled with an 'O' gauge layout. On 8th September 2016 a blue plaque to commemorate the meeting was unveiled by the Honourable Sir William McAlpine Bart. at the instigation of the Ffestiniog Railway Society, Bristol Civic Society and Bristol Railway Circle with the kind permission of Bristol University. Photo credit: User:MarkTemple Recently featured: Moelwyn James Spooner Garnedd Tunnel