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    Beltring didn't open today because it was a bit muddy !!!!!!

    in War & Peace show.

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    Well let me qualify that statement. I arrived at 8.30 this morning, paid nearly £20 to get in but then found security had locked the inner gate and we couldn't get in. Some Health & Safety person felt the main tarmac road through the site was a bit muddy so it they were not allowed to open ?

     

    A road sweeping lorry went up and down a few times (actually making it wetter not cleaner), the crowd got a bit restless, the police turned up as security didn't like people asking them what was going on !!!!! An announcement went out over the tannoy which was so badly crackling it was totally useless and nobody knew what was happening. By time the gates opened at 9.45 there were about 1,000 frustrated customers waiting.

     

    To make it all worse there were only about 60% of the stalls there compared with previous years so no real bargins and many vehicles haven't yet arrived. All in all not Beltring's best year, I know the weather has been the worst ever but it all seemed to be about a small amount of mud on the tarmac track across the front of the site not the 6 inch deep mud all around the rest of the site !!!!!

     

    Still on the upside seeing some of the vehicles driving around in the mud was great, the T34's in the arena going through mud and through the newly built village in the middle was really impressive and most of the vehicles are impressively dirty which actually makes a nice change (I have a couple of photos of T34's, a Jeep, WC63 & Bulldozer that are really great). As the day went on the sun shone and the light wind really started to dry the site up so I guess by the weekend all will be better and more stalls/vehicles will no-doubt appear.

     

    Andy :cheesy:

     

     

    Hi,

    i know some dealers had problems with thier marquees....... as each one had to be towed in as the vans could not cope with the mud on the stalls site.

    Ashley

    The Police visit !

    in Other Chatter

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    When we travelled to France this year in June, at Poole all the questions from the customs/Police officers were regarding firearms we had= none

     

    Were we re-enactors = no

     

    Did we know any re-enactors going to France and liable to come through Poole Port= no

     

    were we meeting up with any re-enactors in France = no

     

    all questions pointed towards firearms and obviouly gathering data.

     

    Ashley

    Fantastic! BUT....

    in Other Chatter

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    This is an old chestnut... I don't have a problem with making modern snaps look old. Some of them work really well, as seen with A&E pics on here. I am not particularly good at it, despite years of snapping and doing imaging work on all types of film.

    I am much happier recording things as seen. I did consider setting my cameras to shoot all of A&E in mono - but it loses something. I guess it's a case of carry on as you were. I know some snappers get very unhappy when people wear modern clothes when riding in WW2 vehicles. Keith Nisbet did his best to minimise this at A&E and we all entered into the spirit. I looked like a muppet....but no worse than Jack.

     

    Hi all,

    for years i have been personally against uniforms...you looked great mark just wear it a few times and it will feel like a second skin as i have found out :thumbsup:

     

    Ashley

    Ex-MoD Civilian

    in Introductions & Welcomes

    Posted

    Name: Andy

    Formerly worked at RAF Gatow, Berlin, and HQ AFCENT, Netherlands.

    Retired now, but interested in finding out more about MoD buses.

     

    Hi and welcome

    made many a journey on the bedfords (flat fronted type ) we use to use as school buses in Germanyand for general outings :-D

     

    Ashley

    Big ray

    in Other Chatter

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    The year on the previous photograph is wrong..... it should read 1958, thats when it closed and became a school, we moved out in the autumn of 1958....... the tennis courts did not exist when we were in residence, and the building on the left was our cookhouse / dining hall..... it only seems like yesterday that we were walking in and out of the place, wonderful memories.

     

     

    It was still the cookhouse /dining block when i was there 1969-1973....

     

    Ashley

    Tick bite

    in Other Chatter

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    Hi All,

    i remember them being a particular nusance at W&P a few years ago with one participant being taken to hospital with several (bites) on his legs...... :shake:

     

     

     

    Ashley

    Range Wrecks

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    Hi,

    there was also a churchill on the area in the early seveties remember camping by on a escape and evasion ex with the cadets.

     

    Ashley

     

     

     

     

     

    Some more taken at Haltern near Munster. All pictures are fairly old but I'm told most of the wrecks are still there. These ones include Conqueror, Centurion, AMX 13, M47 and Centurion ARV. I was told before I went there that the tank that is upside down was in fact a German WW2 vehicle. I was very excited but alas no.

     

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    Hello from Dorset

    in Introductions & Welcomes

    Posted

    Hi Andy,

    best get yourself down to the aviation museum on sunday for the Help for Heros event, just opposite hurn airport.

     

    Ashley

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I'm a WII Jeep enthusiast and have a 1942 Willys Jeep that I run with my family whenever I can, except it is garaged in South Gloucestershire, not Dorset!

     

    I'm also an aviation and flight simulation enthusiast, which have produced a strong interest in airfield vehicles, such as airfield tractors/tugs, refuellers, control caravans, mobile surveillance/precision approach radars etc., mostly from the Cold War era. If anyone in my region owns such vehicles and would be willing to let me come and take a look please contact me! :-) I'd be extremely grateful.

     

    Nice to meet you all!

     

    Andy

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