East Sussex TVRCC 'Bottle Wall'
The 'world famous' (well everyone at le Mans knew about it!) East Sussex region 'bottle wall'. This was only made possible by extreme dedication by a number of Club Members. For those who don't know, the 'bottle wall' is a tradition at Le Mans. Every group on each campsite drinks as much beer as they can (only to be sociable!) and piles the empties in a heap. In some cases these have been known to form a wall, but mostly the effects of too much French beer makes wall building haphazard to say the least. Stray footballs account for most of the remainder.

Being truly dedicated and bearing in mind that child labour was outlawed during the Industrial revolution TVRCC East Sussex brought along their own 'wall builder' (sorry I didn't catch his name but he is in the bottom photo below - kindly supplied by Tony Connor). I happened to wander onto their campsite at 10.30 on Sunday morning to be given a beer and told to get it drunk quick, just in time for the 'topping off' ceremony. Remember this was created without glue - just a steady hand! but more impressively they only added the bottle tops afterwards. Although I have it on authority that they had a surgeon on their team who screwed the tops back on to form the TVR logo.

I was subsequently pressganged into taking photos of all the team - with all their cameras (I looked like a Japanese tourist) -- Many thanks to Nicky Evans for the big picture showing (in her words) "all those who sacrificed themselves for the beer wall" - good effort!
by Paul Calland