Convention 2003

It seems impossible but each year our Convention attracts more and more fans, I'm sure there must have been over 2000 people attending Basildon's Sports Hall, on the 28th September 2003. They were there to see five stars from the show, the recreation of the Trotter flat, Trotters Ethnic Tours Bus, the Premiere showing of Licensed To Drill and an array of new merchandise.

The Event started as usual at 12.00pm and by 12.30pm the hall was filling to the point of bursting, so we decided to bring the actors on stage at around 12.45pm, to enable them to start signing autographs as soon as possible and reduce the already huge queue for signatures.

The stage show started with a best of clips video which introduced the day and got everybody in the mood for the day ahead, I (Keith) then introduced, Sid (Roy Heather) on stage and asked him a few questions, before being joined by Damien (Ben Smith), Denzil (Paul Barber), Boycie (John Challis) and Marlene (Sue Holderness). After a few minutes on stage the actors made their way to where they would spend what must've seemed like a huge task, signing everybody's memorabilia. At this point I then told everybody that we had got an exclusive message to show from non other than Slater (Jim Broadbent) himself, he told us where he's been since leaving Peckham and also how he can't wait to get back, to get his own back on Trotter. We then put the Premiere showing of Licensed To Drill on which as you probably already know, we had only found recently. As autographs were being signed and photographs being taken we continued showing classic rare Only Fools clips on the big screen.

The recreation of the Trotter flat once again proved to be very popular with our Del Boy look-a-like posing with you to give the whole picture an authentic look. Later on during the day we brought the actors back on stage for everyone to see them and get those all important pictures taken.

The whole day went very well with everyone enjoying themselves, as you can see from the pictures below.