Welcome to the AROC Central Sussex Section
The CENTRAL SUSSEX section of the Alfa Romeo Owners Club meet on the second Thursday of each month. As of January 2025 we will be meeting at the Jack and Jill public house Brighton Rd, Clayton, Hassocks BN6 9PD . Meeting time is from 7.30pm onwards.
The Jack and Jill is at Clayton on the A273 which is north of Brighton and within easy reach of Crawley, Horsham, Worthing, Brighton, Lewes, Haywards Heath and Eastbourne.
https://www.thejackandjillinn.co.uk
Eating at the Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill serves a varied pub menu, with most of the meals cooked in house by the resident chef, on our meetings so far the food has had a convincing thumbs up!
New members and visitors always welcome.
Contact us:
Secretary: Simon Novis
Chairman: Stan Bailey
Treasurer: Sue Massey
Digital Media Officer: Stephen Price
Social Media Officer: Marty Cumming
Please note! All photographs in our section news or events listing are the property of Marty Cumming or other section members, some may belong to members of other sections. Please before you use any of the photographs check with our section secretary to make sure they are not subject to copyrite. central-sussex@aroc-uk.com
Regular Meeting place
The very latest!
The Jack and Jill Public House our new home for monthly meets
Sunday morning summer meets
Seasonal Sunday morning breakfast meet at Tulleys Farm, Turners Hill, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 4PE. Rather than the event being every first Sunday as before, the date will change to work around other events which we will be wanting to attend, see below for dates. Look forward to seeing you there!
Some dates for your diary
Tulley’s Farm Sunday summer Breakfast meets dates, see the news section for our first visit.
June 29th, July 20th, August 31st, September 21st, October 19th
We meet in the car park at 9.30am, on the left before the main carpark, and move straight to ordering refreshments to avoid the queue. After breakfast we gather back at the cars to chat and do the social part. If you do not wish to eat and just meet up, then we will see you at around 10.30.
Central Sussex News
- First Visit to Tulley’s Farm
A great turnout for the club sections first visit to Tulley’s Farm at Turners Hill. May brought some good weather and the day of… - Bluebell Woods, Arlington, no bluebells visit
It was most likely the fact that Bates Green Farm website warned that because of the warm dry weather, that the carpet of bluebells… - Section Secretary AGM reportA very quick synopsis of the AGM for those that didn’t attend. The Chairman’s report was a summation of all of the events that…
Section visit to Filching Manor on 11th Oct
A good turn out gathered at 10.00 on the Sat morning for our tour of the collection of cars, boats which was originally put together by the late Paul Foulkes Halbard and is now being continued by his son Karl Foulkes Halbard. A private collection houses many exhibits. Including a 1903 chain driven Mercedes, the collection contains the very rare 1898 Orient Express (one of only two left working in the world), a 1907 Corbin Racer, several Bugatti cars, a fantastic 1904 chain driven Mercedes racing car, numerous motor cycles and many, many more. The centre of the collection is Sir Malcolm Campbell’s Bluebird K3 world record breaking boat which the Halbard family saved and restored, along with other famous Campbell cars, boats and memorabilia. The tour lasted a couple of hours and halfway through, we enjoyed some bacon rolls, home made rolls, and home made cakes and other yummy treats! After which we were given a talk by Karl, telling us about the story behind the restoration which finally led to being able to run K3 on the Swiss end Lago Maggiore from Locarno, where the original record was achieved.
A thanks to Stan Bailey for organising the visit and the volunteers who made the very delicious brunch, with all proceeds going to charity.
