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The Ffestiniog Railway Society's origins can be traced back to a meeting called in Bristol by seventeen year old schoolboy Leonard Heath Humphrys.

The meeting took place at at 2.30 pm on Saturday 8th September 1951 at the Bristol Railway Circle's rented club room in 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.

The 50th anniversary of the Bristol Meeting was celebrated 50 years to the day of when it happened with a dinner on the S.S. Great Britain attended by four of the original attendees - John Bate, Alan C Clothier, Allan Garraway and Vic Mitchell. Alan Pegler was also at this celebration organized by the Bristol Group and the guest of honour was the Lord Mayor of Bristol. In all there were fifty guests.

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