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Excellent that will be another one that has been saved! Will look supurb back in it's showland guise, a real head turner, look forward to following it's progress.

Well The Fairground Society have their AGM at different places every year, but yes this year it was held near Bridgenorth at Russell Cook's yard. Thanks for the extra information though.

Nice one Mike, thanks for the detailed answer :thumbsup:

It was one that I hadn't seen before. Does anyone have any information about it, I'm guessing that it was used for bus/coach recovery?

Saw this on Saturday at The Fairground Society's open day. Hopefully it may be of interest to some of you on here.

Saw this one on Saturday at an open day for The Fairground Society.

As someone has already stated it seems as if these guests strike all over the country (and continent!). At the non-league football club where I help out at we had some 'unwanted visitors' one night. Instead of breaking the locks off the door they actually chiselled away the brickwork in order to open the door to under the stand with locks still intact! Once under the stand (where we keep machinery and other things) they took all of the copper piping, a boiler and also tried to push the sit-on tractor to the door (thankfully it was in gear so they couldn't take that). Next on the hit list were the rest of the toilets around the ground, all copper piping taken. Believe it or not they actually cut electric cables that supply the lights to the turnstiles and the pa system around the ground. The cable was live and how they didn't get electrocute themselves I don't know! All this happened in one evening and just means that normal people like me and others are left to clean up the mess that these lot leave :mad:

I emailed the link to on the Scrap Yard Relics thread to the Austin Gipsy Register Chairman yesterday. I will contact him again to tell him that this vehicle is for sale to see if he knows of anyone that may be interested. A fellow member, Croc, is also a bit of Gipsy nut so hopefully he will see this thread. And oh yeah it's Gipsy with an I not a y :-D that's why you may have been having trouble to find some web pages.

The Fire Appliance is an LCP - Light Six-Wheel Drive Pump. It is based at Church Stretton and has got a tank in it. It used for fires and other incidents on the Long Mynd, with that area being particularly difficult to get to with any other appliances. It was used a lot over the winter as well when the snow came as it was capable of getting almost anywhere.

Spotted on Saturday in Arras, a Jeep just trundling through the side streets!

Yes it was a good trip, just a shame it couldn't have lasted a bit longer in order to get in a few other places of interest. It was certainly a different experience to be at the service also, to be stood on the site where one of the major battles of WW1 took place for which this memorial was erected. The fence was installed as they felt it was needed. The farmers had previously piled all sorts of stuff against it before and hence why it had become neglected. Hopefully with this now in place it will survive for many a future generation.

Cheers guys. I have found out my old photobucket account so can perhaps use that in future but will have a look at that website now Joris.

I've been trying to upload this picture for a while now. I spotted it last year on the M5 southbound near Gloucester last summer, sorry for the not so brilliant photo.

Thanks Lee, I've tried that but it's still not playing ball - must just be me! I downloaded a picture resizer earlier on but it leaves a watermark on the pictures which I don't like so will keep searching for a better one. Scott

Last weekend saw us part of a group travelling to France for a very special journey. Last year the Staffordshire Regimental Association, Hednesford Branch were on a tour of WW1 Battlefields when they stopped off to visit a memorial to the 46th (North Midland) Division whom the South Staffordshire Regiment were part of during the First World War. The site of the memorial was where the Stafford’s along with the rest of the division broke the German defensive lines in the now famous Battle of St. Quentin Canal, which eventually led to the breaking of the Hindenburg Line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_St._Quentin_Canal Now when the Hednesford Branch visited the memorial last year it was in a very run down state and had been damaged following a number of years of neglect. The Branch felt that they had to do something about it, so with the help of one substantial backer they were able to restore the memorial to its former glory. A fence has also been put around it and sign put at the roadside in order to keep the memory alive for future generations. After travelling over on Saturday we arrived at our stop for the evening, Arras. This is a place which is of great interest and in the short time that we were there we managed to find a little museum (The Tunnel Museum) which gave a little bit of history and also showed a number of artefacts which were of WW1 origin from around the local area. Sunday morning saw us travel to the memorial, which is situated just out of Bellicourt on the road to St Quentin. Along with the 50 or so members of the Hednesford Branch we were joined by members of the Sherwood Foresters Regimental Association and the Volunteer Band of the Mercian Regiment. A short service took place with the Bishop of Stafford leading the order of service as the colours were paraded, wreaths laid and the last post played before the Regimental Collects of the Royal Lincolnshire, Royal Leicestershire, Staffordshire Regiments and the Sherwood Foresters were said. Once the service was finished people were able to mingle before heading back to Arras and then back home to conclude which had been a very interesting and poignant weekend. Below are some of the pictures from the weekend. (Sorry about the watermark still trying to find a good enough software to resize my pictures) Scott

I'm still having problems uploading photo's, in fact I haven't been able to for some time now. If it is becuase they are too big what can I do to make them smaller? I always been able to upload pics from this camera before so I can't see why I can't now. Any help much appreciated as I have got something of interest I want to stick online. Scott

Nice pictures Mark. I remember that Cosford show (it was on the land where the Cold War hanger now sits!) as we went back to the barn and got the F8 as it was only up the road and it gave us a chance to give it a run out again!

Interesting picture indeed. In fact very little has changed from when this was first taken as the buildings, out-house and church all look the same as they did in 1945!

Cracking restoration thread and a good days work by the looks of it! Look forward to seeing this one at GDSF.

Thanks for the picture. I love old pictures like this as there is always some kind of story attached to them. There seems to be a winch cable coming out of the Quad while one solider has a shovel in his hand so they must have been trying to move something that is stuck, which is understandable with the amount of snow around!

There was an article in Worlds Fair the other week about a guy in Suffolk who owns a Matador and brought what are the reamins of a Dorchester last year that he is going to restore this year. So it goes to show that they are still lurking around!

Interesting pics indeed, I have never seen Quads pulling anything other than limbers and 25 pounders!

Some interesting shots Tony, where were all these taken then? Scott

Sounds interesting Mike. There aren't too many of them around, in fact according to the Albion CX22 website they know of just nine: http://www.albion-cx22.co.uk/cx22database.html#

Looks like it actually applied to something else http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?22887-MV-Collector-on-the-BBC-website&p=247996#post247996 but the BBC Breakfast show did mention the Harrier that was on ebay as well as the collection at Dunchurch.