The 16th International Portafold & Ansfold Gathering) (i.e. 2025)
Our annual gathering will be returning to the Newbury Retrofestival.
*** New for 2025 - Arrive from 9am on Thursday and stay till Monday lunchtime ***
So put the dates 7th, 8th, 9th & 10th of August 2025 in your diary now and get those dates booked off work early.
Show Address: Newbury Showground, Priors Court, Hermitage, Thatcham, West Berkshire, RG18 9QZ
Don't book direct with the show organisers it will cost you more money, just contact me (07771544419) to get your pitch saved.
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- by Ian
- Tue, 08 Feb 2011, 12:43 pm
- Forum: Sold
- Topic: Portafold on eBay - NOW SOLD
- Replies: 5
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I see its got the sagging-roof-syndrome like mine, but that split will be easy enough to fix.

Not sure I could live with the gold quilting

- by Ian
- Fri, 12 Nov 2010, 1:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Roof lifting when windy!!!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14255
Note to Chauffeur:
Smithers, I note that the roof of one's Portafold is showing signs of having pattered up and down a bit in the 80mph breeze that rattled through one's country seat, last night - better keep the old Bentley below 75 next time we tow the Portafold down to Henley, what.

- by Ian
- Wed, 15 Sep 2010, 12:25 pm
- Forum: Sold
- Topic: Early Portafold listed on eBay - NOW SOLD
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9599
And I thought mine was in a bad state - at least mine had half the hinges in place, but the rest all looks very familiar.....
- by Ian
- Wed, 11 Aug 2010, 12:06 pm
- Forum: Modifications & Upgrades
- Topic: Paint
- Replies: 18
- Views: 68032
Soda Blasting II I've found another downside to soda-blasting - I've had several sessions attempting to fill the millions (well hundreds) of pin-holes that the blasting exposed and, as a consequence, the painting hasn't happened, yet. The downside is that the lightly keyed surface that the blasting ...
- by Ian
- Wed, 04 Aug 2010, 12:30 pm
- Forum: Sold
- Topic: 1972 Portafold on FreeAds - NOW SOLD
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12661
What a nice unmolested 'van (not full of reduntant holes for grills for venting long-gone fridges, like mine

)
Ian
- by Ian
- Wed, 28 Jul 2010, 1:10 pm
- Forum: Wheels, Tyres & Hubcaps
- Topic: Bargain wheels & tyres!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 28806
A good price. Thinking laterally (quite legal, even for boring olde f**rts like me), 10" mini wheels were more than a bit popular on trailers. A surf of some of the trailer parts websites suggests that they are still rather popular and new 10" after-market steel wheels, with a 23mm offset, are readi...
- by Ian
- Tue, 13 Jul 2010, 12:31 pm
- Forum: Modifications & Upgrades
- Topic: Paint
- Replies: 18
- Views: 68032
Found a neat way to fill those pin-holes - rub the filler on with a rag. I can't claim to have invented the process cos I got the idea from a chance remark by the local boat-fettler, he uses a rag to spread filler onto hulls after they have been blasted as part of the osmosis treatment process. Anyw...
- by Ian
- Wed, 07 Jul 2010, 4:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Collective Noun
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9642
Not sure we should go down this route because 'they' probably think we're mad for owning those little-folding-plastic-boxes-on-wheels anyway :think: :think: ... and as for spending money on them :crazy: :crazy: Thinking about what a group of parked Portafolds looks like... how about a Huddle of...? ...
- by Ian
- Wed, 16 Jun 2010, 12:07 pm
- Forum: Parts & Accessories Found
- Topic: Portafold Badge
- Replies: 39
- Views: 130942
Hi Matt,
Can I have one too? (trouble is that the new badge will show the rest of it up

)
Thanks
Grumpy old north-islander.....