About Carrotland
About This Area
We have a busy events program and try to appeal to all Sevening tastes. Our calendar is published on this, the club website.
Our Carrotland nickname has been around for many years. It was initiated by a former Area Organiser, Ernie Panks. Ernie was one of our keenest members, having built three Caterham Sevens over the years. He used his Aero Screened Superlight daily, in all weathers, to travel to and from work. One day he rounded one of his favourite bends to find a huge pile of carrots in the road. Subsequent blats over the years have revealed further carrots, a sugar beet or two, a lorry load of onions, and the odd heap of best malting barley spilled from farm trailers being towed enthusiastically by young farmers in their tractors.
Yes, you have probably gathered by now that we live in a pretty rural area. We have no motorways and only a few dual carriageways. We do, however, have some great blatting roads as a result.
Our folk enjoy track days and visits to race days at Snetterton. We have a number of organised blats every year, including an early morning breakfast blat, an annual picnic and from time to time we organise touring holidays at home and abroad. We have toured Scotland, Wales, Yorkshire and France, and have attended the Swiss International meeting at St Moritz.
Our moment of glory was organising and hosting the Club celebrations for Fifty Years of the Seven in September 2007. The Royal Norfolk Showground was hired for a long weekend. Around 700 cars attended, with owners travelling from, literally, all over the world. We were lucky to have Clive and Hazel Chapman as guests of honour, along with the Nearn family and Edward Lewis. Edward was the first person to receive a Lotus Seven. Having taken possession just in time to enter, and win, the 1957 Brighton Speed trial.
Feel free to contact us at any time.
Steve Wright, Norfolk Area Representative - Mobile 07789 907646
Kingsley Young, Suffolk Area Representative - Mobile 07774 135220
Joint Email address for both Norfolk and Suffolk: carrotland@caterhamlotus7.club