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When LIBS moved to the docks I thought Earls Court was due to be demolished and redeveloped. It seems to be just as busy as ever it was, so have the plans changed? One way to revive LIBS would be to go back Earls Court with it's great atmosphere.
 
I think it's mostly rose tinted spectacles anyway. I bet if a miracle happened and the boat show went back to EC the forum would be full of people moaning about how it wasn't like it used to be! I absolutely guarantee it would not 'revive' it

Anyway, it ain't happening, you have to accept that and either attend or not.
 
CLB said:
I think it's mostly rose tinted spectacles anyway. I bet if a miracle happened and the boat show went back to EC the forum would be full of people moaning about how it wasn't like it used to be! I absolutely guarantee it would not 'revive' it

Anyway, it ain't happening, you have to accept that and either attend or not.
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My rose tinted glasses remember it with affection
As a Family swmbo and 3 childers had some great Times in the Smoke on the back of me wanting ogle (no google then) at the impossible dreams of thrutchin big boats!
We used to get a First Class ticket in a Deal with the then 'Gloucester Hotel' and Show tickets and 3 nights fer the price of 2 and 'adjoining' rooms and breakfast served in the room

And as well as, take the nippers Ice Skating and Regents park Zoo an stuff like that an all!
Kids still talk about it and it was the early 80's!

My last one was the Year the Merry Fisher 805 was 'launched' cos I helped on the Stand fer two days talkin bollix, which I still do as you peeps may have noticed
The childers also participated in childer things that were de riguer at the Time, like a divin tank and pull a sheet an all that there
Plus the view from the 'balcony' was good ter look at the scantily clad wenches that performed in various activities
I went up to a stall once and said 'What's the best Anchor'--- 2 hours later swmbo had nearly fainted and the childers? well, nowadays, I would have been arrested for childer abuse the amount of brochures and freebies they lugged around

Great pieces of kit rose coloured glasses
Better than the duff ones I stared through yesterday in Currys at those carp 3D TV's!
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PCUK said:
When LIBS moved to the docks I thought Earls Court was due to be demolished and redeveloped. It seems to be just as busy as ever it was, so have the plans changed? One way to revive LIBS would be to go back Earls Court with it's great atmosphere.
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Erm no ! Last few events. Is dead and buried and good riddance !

Do you know just how much land it occupies ? It will be a town within a city.
 
Whitelighter said:
Earls court is due to be demolished either next year or 2016.

The boat show (or any other event) will never be there again
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Sooner rather than later according to this..

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...re-set-to-move-in-over-christmas-9921172.html

I still reckon the issue with LIBS in not the venue, it's getting the exhibitors in... you need a good spread of raggie and mobo, and a decent spread of prices, and more boats on the water.. I still couldn't understand why there were so few boats on the water at Excel when it's in the middle of Docklands!
 
Came down sarf yesterday to go to the palace ,went past ec it does look a dump knock it down and have a green space or a green village ,how do peeps live in those big sheds
 
PCUK said:
When LIBS moved to the docks I thought Earls Court was due to be demolished and redeveloped. It seems to be just as busy as ever it was, so have the plans changed? One way to revive LIBS would be to go back Earls Court with it's great atmosphere.
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And how do you expect to get the boats there? As most of what's exhibited now can't be moved there by road.
I would seriously re consider visiting as I drive o Excel park up for a coup,e of days then drive home, could never do that at Earls Court, things move on, sometimes for the better, enjoy what we have rather than worrying about something that can't be changed.
 
Richard Shead said:
Erm no ! Last few events. Is dead and buried and good riddance !
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I bet a few exhibitors at LIBS comtemplating the tumbleweed blowing down the aisles at Excel will look back ruefully to their days at Earls Court when on some days the aisles were so packed you literally couldn't move. Excel is like a morgue in comparison and LIBS has never managed to recreate the atmosphere at Excel that it used to have at Earls Court
 
...Earls Court with it's great atmosphere...

For me at least, it always had an 'atmosphere'; over the years I regularly attended first Smithfield Agricultural shows as a kid, then the annual motorcycle show and later the Boat shows, perhaps 20 - 25 visits in all and never once did I not have a blazing headache before I left, good riddance to the place!
 
Give it a chance guys. The new show has had a lot to battle against through no real fault of its own.
Relocation, a venue with surrounding infrastructure still growing and an ailing world economy depriving the leisure industry of cash.
A lot of people also tend forget that 20yrs ago the whole area around Excel was still a wasteland WW2 bomb site!
I bet you see growing improvements over the next few years. World economies are slowly improving plus Docklands is quickly maturing and developing now that the construction industry is getting back on its feet. The show will get better as the environment surrounding it gets better.

At least parking and transport links are better at Excel. No Aussie theme pubs surrounding it either. ;)

I do agree that they should take more advantage of Albert Dock though. Huge missed opportunities there.
 
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