When Don Boreham retired to our part of the Chilterns in the early 1980s I invited him to give a talk on 16mm narrow gauge modelling to our local club. He joined that night and eventually served as President. His enthusiam for all things railways - excluding the GWR - and narrow gauge in particular, was to fuel many new projects including Dduallt itself. We were fortunate to spend nearly 20 years in his presence. Consequently it was pleasing that his family insisted on keeping his pioneering 16mm models together as a collection to be displayed in his memory.
We built Merioneth Town to exhibit these historic models, a wharf scene somewhere in North Wales where Don's passion and enthusiam for narrow gauge established it's popularity and his research is reflected today in the wonderful replicas and restorations of vintage FR and WHR stock.
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