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    WW1 Display 8 & 9 November Wallingford Oxfordshire

    in Future events and meetings

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    WW1 Display 8 & 9 November Wallingford Oxfordshire.

    Just to let anyone know, who might be local to Wallingford, Oxfordshire, about a WW1 display that I am part arranging this weekend. There will be WW1 memorabilia, a Wallingford based medals display and details on some of the men who are on the war memorial in the town square. The display takes place in Wallingford town hall, Saturday 10am till 4pm and Sunday 12-30 till 3pm, it's free admission, we do collection for the British Legion, and it would be good to meet up with any fellow members.

    Regards Gary

    War & Peace 2014

    in War & Peace show.

    Posted

    To add to Clives storm photo, here are a couple I took as the storm built up, after the last photo I realised it was time to take extra precautions with the marquee, glad I did as it was 20 minutes of high winds that almost blew it away ! From Clives initial photo to my last one, was probably only 10 minutes.

    Regards Gary

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    70 years on little changes in Normandy

    in Battlefields, museums, monuments and memorials.

    Posted

    Now and then, my take, while riding up through Hermanville on 6 June (this weekend just gone), I spotted some photos on the ruin of an old property in the main street, closer inspection showed that they were taken in June 1944 and show the buildings they were attached to, one photo showing a para bike, as I was at that moment on my bike, the opportunity for a then and now comparison occurred. Unfortunately there was a car parked, blocking an exact camera bsahermanville.jpg position, so my effort is from a different angle, but I think you recognise the wall stonework and window, etc.

    Regards Gary

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    Combat Cap 1950's

    in Clothing/uniforms

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    Here are the RAF ones, one blue and one tan, both labelled (both RAF stores numbers), found while searching for something completely different, these turned up recently from a garage clearance in London with boxes of webbing etc.

    The blue caps black side buttons are black plastic, Kings crown type.

    With these caps there is also one the same as at the start of this thread, no makers mark/date that I can see, but on the inside of the leather sweat band, there is what seems a very faint AID stamp, this would make it RAF I believe ?

    Regards Gary

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    The War & Peace Revival 2013 Review

    in War & Peace show.

    Posted

    I arrived Wednesday evening, as a seller, I'd seen the traders layout and choose to go to the very bottom row (EE on the traders map), to be as far away from the train line/motorway (traffic noise related reasons). My friend and I arrived late afternoon and were directed to the public car park, to wait for the vehicle movement restriction to be lifted at 6pm.

    We booked in, found our pitch and all was good.

    As previously said, the traders layout was very similar to the hop farm, and many traders had kept to their old spot, so to speak. Over the course of Thursday, Friday and Saturday, I did get to talk to many of the traders, with varying commets of, not mant buyers (i.e coming to the top of the traders field) to business as normal for others. I found having moved from my old pitch of S1, to row EE, that all the old faces and friends still found me and I could catch up with them, as is normal, when many come from as far away as Australia ! I managed to clear some of my excess clutter and with some money in my pocket, I can continue to enjoy my collecting hobby for the future. We did get caught up in the exclusions zone of stalls on Saturday morning, due to the incident of the flash bang, apparently it had been bought on a stall nearby and the EOD came and checked/cleared the stall I believe, we lost a couple of hours trading, but at least it was all dealt with professionally and swiftly.

    Now to the show itself, evening entertainment and venues, were the same as the hop farm, plenty of variety of music and entertainment, the Bevan Boys and Three Belles on Thursday evening was briliant ! Of couse the burlesque in the Jazz bar, is also one to look out for ! (don't tell my wife).

    The layout of the show, as was at hop farm, does take some getting used to, getting your bearings is straight forward as you can see most of the show area, from where ever you stand.

    Vehicle displays and re-enactment displays, to me, seemed better, as it was in a more dedicated area, and there seemed to be more of it. The standard of displays just seems to get better also and I appreciate the effort needed to try to get things just right.

    Dust was a major issue, but as we all know, when you have large vehicles and 1000's of pairs of feet, this just cannot be prevented and the organisors were wetting down the track ways as best as possible, but with wall to wall sunshine and a strong wind, it was a loosing battle. Being British, it was the main topic of conversation, but everyone agreed dust was better than rain !

    Toilet and showers, I think were improved on, compared to the hop farm, again this is also ways a main gripe at any major show and I think a great deal of effort has been made to get things right.

    So that is my view of the show, and all I can say, Thankyou Mr Cadman and your team, I'll be back for more !

    Regards Gary

    Reporting Live from W&P Revival 2013

    in War & Peace show.

    Posted

    I arrived Wednesday evening, as a seller, I'd seen the traders layout and choose to go to the very bottom row (EE on the traders map), to be as far away from the train line/motorway (traffic noise related reasons). My friend and I arrived late afternoon and were directed to the public car park, to wait for the vehicle movement restriction to be lifted at 6pm.

    We booked in, found our pitch and all was good.

    As previously said, the traders layout was very similar to the hop farm, and many traders had kept to their old spot, so to speak. Over the course of Thursday, Friday and Saturday, I did get to talk to many of the traders, with varying commets of, not mant buyers (i.e coming to the top of the traders field) to business as normal for others. I found having moved from my old pitch of S1, to row EE, that all the old faces and friends still found me and I could catch up with them, as is normal, when many come from as far away as Australia ! I managed to clear some of my excess clutter and with some money in my pocket, I can continue to enjoy my collecting hobby for the future. We did get caught up in the exclusions zone of stalls on Saturday morning, due to the incident of the flash bang, apparently it had been bought on a stall nearby and the EOD came and checked/cleared the stall I believe, we lost a couple of hours trading, but at least it was all dealt with professionally and swiftly.

    Now to the show itself, evening entertainment and venues, were the same as the hop farm, plenty of variety of music and entertainment, the Bevan Boys and Three Belles on Thursday evening was briliant ! Of couse the burlesque in the Jazz bar, is also one to look out for ! (don't tell my wife).

    The layout of the show, as was at hop farm, does take some getting used to, getting your bearings is straight forward as you can see most of the show area, from where ever you stand.

    Vehicle displays and re-enactment displays, to me, seemed better, as it was in a more dedicated area, and there seemed to be more of it. The standard of displays just seems to get better also and I appreciate the effort needed to try to get things just right.

    Dust was a major issue, but as we all know, when you have large vehicles and 1000's of pairs of feet, this just cannot be prevented and the organisors were wetting down the track ways as best as possible, but with wall to wall sunshine and a strong wind, it was a loosing battle. Being British, it was the main topic of conversation, but everyone agreed dust was better than rain !

    Toilet and showers, I think were improved on, compared to the hop farm, again this is also ways a main gripe at any major show and I think a great deal of effort has been made to get things right.

    So that is my view of the show, and all I can say, Thankyou Mr Cadman and your team, I'll be back for more !

    Regards Gary

    BSA Folding Paratroopers Bicycle

    in Blogs of MV restorations

    Posted

    Thanks for all the advice so far!

     

    Slowly coming apart, havn't been able to get the headstock apart as of yet as it requires a BSA tool to undo.

     

    My main concern at the moment is wheels. I do not think the ones i have are originals. Does anyone know if they had standard BSA wheels? Or at least what size they are.

     

     

    Hi Martin,

    wheel/tyre size is 26 x 1 3/8, the rims were Dunlop and the hubs are BSA manufacture.

    Regards

    Gary

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