{"id":550,"date":"2009-12-24T12:48:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T12:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ofah.webhostingireland.ie\/blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2009-12-24T13:14:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T13:14:53","slug":"only-fools-and-horses-convention-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/only-fools-and-horses-convention-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Fools and Horses Convention 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d7386eeb5bdcd2f43c1295b58ceaf130\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: right; margin:5px 0 5px 5px;\">\n<amp-auto-ads type=\"adsense\"\r\n              data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\">\r\n<\/amp-auto-ads>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Convention 2003<\/h2>\n<h3>Licensed to Thrill!<\/h3>\n<div>It seems impossible but each year our Convention attracts more and more  fans, I&#8217;m sure there must have been over 2000 people attending Basildon&#8217;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.<\/div>\n<div>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.<\/div>\n<div>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&#8217;ve seemed like a huge task, signing everybody&#8217;s  memorabilia.\u00a0At 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&#8217;s been since leaving Peckham and also how he can&#8217;t wait to get back, to  get his own back on Trotter.\u00a0We then put the Premiere showing of Licensed To  Drill on which as you probably already know, we had only found recently.\u00a0As  autographs were being signed and photographs being taken we continued showing  classic rare Only Fools clips on the big screen.<\/div>\n<div>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.\u00a0Later on during the day we brought the actors back on stage for  everyone to see them and get those all important pictures taken.<\/div>\n<div>The whole day went very well with everyone enjoying themselves, as you can  see from the pictures below.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/Ben__Damian.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/Crowd2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/Fools__Ben.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/Dam1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/Del_Philip_Boy.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/Denzil_Damian_and_Fan.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Below are just a few of the many pictures you&#8217;ve sent in.<\/div>\n<div>\n<table cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/12_head_and_10_new_Handles.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"215\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/bas_bus.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/The_new_Del.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"215\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/Crowd1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/Ive_Broke_Down.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"215\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/dendam.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/Pepsi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"215\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/perry1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/only-fools-and-horses-convention-2003\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" src=\"\" class=\"alignright wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>Convention 2003 Licensed to Thrill! It seems impossible but each year our Convention attracts more and more fans, I&#8217;m sure there must have been over 2000 people attending Basildon&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,25,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention","category-only-fools-and-horses","category-society"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Only Fools and Horses Convention 2003<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Convention 2003 Licensed to Thrill! 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