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    Reporting Live from W&P 2012

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    The War and Peace Show (Organisers)

     

    Latest update from The Hop Farm!

    Contrary to rumours, the Hop Farm is not underwater, the Show is not in danger of being cancelled or postponed and all external agencies are currently happy with the situation!

    It’s a lovely sunny day with a drying wind and the fields are drying out well. Feedback from Officials is that ground conditions are improving by the hour, there is the odd puddle, but these are draining quickly. Vehicles are arriving regularly – one or two fields are wet but nothing is impassable.

    Our Arena Commentator, Woody, quipped that when the sun’s out its too hot!! We’re all looking forward to a successful show – so keep packing!

    Overlord 2012 live updates!!!!

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    Hi All

     

    Firstly I would like to thank all the show organizers and helpers inc Garry, Richard ,Rosie, Mark Harvey and Ian. In my mind this is the Best Show in Southern England. The staff are great, very friendly and helpful, as soon as I turned up on Thursday I was offered help to unload the howitzer and I was then escorted to my pitch, they also asked if I wanted help on Tuesday to reload the Howitzer. You can't beat that for service. The show is friendly, relaxed and always has a great turn out. I'm a Vehicle owner and a re-enactor, If i want to Re-enact I'll go in the Re-enatment field, If i want to park up and have a beer then i go in the vehicle field, people have a choice. To start upsetting people by laying down to many rules and regs then the show dies on its arse

     

    People need to remember. 1. Any show that can stand alone and compete on a bank holiday and survive deserves credit. 2. Its the Queens Jubilee weekend, people have plans and other comiments like street parties etc etc to go to on the Tuesday. Some people may be going to Normandy and combine going to the show before they go to France. The Essex MVT show use to suffer with the same problem on the bank holiday monday in August, people use to go early, but they could of been at the show since thursday ? I don't like it either but you cant stop them, this isnt the Army, its a hobby

     

    Its funny, when i saw you Lee at the show I wondered what you would report about the show and you havent surprised me at all. Eveything you have said is negative. As a fellow organiser wouldnt it be helpful to give credit where credit is due rather then just comment on the bad stuff ??? I have been to BB twice now and I dont like it that much, it has no Character, stalls are poor, Show field is poor. The Good bit is the re-enactors in the woods and the actual Bunker, I go because i belive in Supporting these shows, because without support they will stop.

    There isnt a set format for any show and what the organiser's want / like at one show another show may want something diffrent. It pays to have stalls selling something for the whole family, if its all military the rest of the family will get bored and wont come again. £25 for 3 people isnt bad Pay £20 each at T&T and see less than you saw on the Monday at overlord. As a Show organised why go on the last day, you know its been open since Friday, Its a bit like going to the last day of the sales and then moan theres nothing left to buy ???

     

    Thanks again to the Overlord Team, roll on 2013

     

     

    Hi Stuart

    Since you mentioned Bunker Bash I thought I had better reply to what you have written. Nice to know you have at least attended twice, not sure when this was or if it was as public as I cannot recall your name on the database and the only time you was going to attend with your truck and gun soit could be used in our firepower display you never showed due to brake problems so you told me on the phone when I called you on the Saturday, turned out you just went to another show but thanks for your support and honesty.

    As for poor stalls at the BB show I am guessing the stalls must be poor at Overlord as well because on Monday (the only day I could make the show) I see GI Joe, Peter Green, Soilder3, Paul Heddell, Div Patch, Green Zone,Bagnells, Colin Voss, which all support our show as well as Overlord.

    As for a poor show ground, its different, it’s not flat but its usable and has worked well for 7 yrs now having vehicles and traders in one field and living history and arena in the other along with our excellent woodland area. I do agree with you we do have some excellent re-enactors especially First Allied Airborne with the Copeman’s Sherman firing in the woods this year, also GI44-45, Vickers Machine Gun Society, Russian 2ndGuards, just to name a few.

     

    As for the MVT bank holiday show I was also around during these days and yes they did lose a few vehicles but nothing and the scale I was told went overnight Sunday and Monday morning from Overlord along with near half the traders.

     

    It is a shame that traders and vehicle owners don’t stay and support the show longer and there is nothing that can be done about this other than not inviting them back next year should they go early, this has been tried with another show and was NOT very successful.

     

    I was not happy as I could only go on the Monday as a member of public and had set out early and driven 125 miles to find that half the vehicle and traders had gone and some of the displays that were left just did not care that there vehicle was still covered in a tarp and had a car sat next to it which really does not look good.

     

    R Cubed said that the main days are Sat/Sun, and pack up day Monday, maybe the show should just be advertised as a weekend show because as a MOP had I known it was pack up day Monday I would have stayed at home and waited until next year and saved myself a 250 mile round trip.

     

    Just my views a MOP.

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