Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 2007 has seen me clock up 2166 miles in the jeep in four countries, and who knows how many miles towing the jeep to events around the country. Here's a selection of pictures from across the years events, Starting at Eden Camp in March. This was the first run out of the year and also the first try out of my new 'field mod' doors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 Next came the MVT(NE) Crank Up event at the end of March, which was a road run to the Weardale Railway, through Hamsterly Forest and ending at the Shildon Railway Museum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 Mid April saw a one day Classic Car event at Hartlepool Historic Quay. This was followed a month later by the Yorkshire MVT 'Wheels & Wings' Event at the Yorkshire Air Museum. A couple of weeks after that, I bought myself a trailer for the jeep as I was starting to collect too much stuff to carry around in the jeep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 First trip out with the trailer was a camping trip to the Weardale Railway Wartime Weekend at the beginning of June. The weather was great, very warm, probably the last weekend before the Monsoon season began. A week later, we headed south for the Debach Airfield Open Day and hangar dance. The weather was still holding out, just! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawson Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 Thanks for the pictures Jessie...And nice looking doors on that jeep mate ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 Cheers! After Debach came our weeks camping holiday leading up to 'Operation Bolero'. This week saw the start of the rainy season. In our first couple of days, we visited the Bungay/Flixton Aircraft Museum which was having an MV day. The BBMF Dakota displayed along with Maurice Hammond in his P-51. Oh yes, it rained there too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 A few days after Bungay, we went to Thorpe Abbotts Airfield for a photo shoot, intending to recreate a wartime picture of a jeep by the tower, the jeep that my jeep was copied from. We also took a few other pics dressed up with the museum buildings as back drop. Surprisingly, the rain stayed away this day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 The day after visiting Thorpe Abbotts, we packed up camp and headed off down the road to Parham, our base for 'Operation Bolero'. For the next three days, we toured around Norfolk and Suffolk in a convoy that must have been two miles long. Plenty has been written about Bolero, so I'll just add a few of the hundreds of pics I took! The pics are from Debach again, Hardwick and Parham. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 The last two Bolero pics are also from Parham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 Our next event was back home, a fund raising event in Bishop Auckland Town Centre. We raised over £600 for the Butterwick Childrens Hospice. A week later, I was heading north for a one day show at Druridge Bay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 Druridge Bay was in late July. By early August, we, and several other MVT(NE) members were heading to Europe for a weeks holiday in France before heading to the 'Wings and Wheels' show at Ursel, Belgium. While in France, we toured around several WW1 and WW2 museums. These first three pictures are from our camp site, a coastal gun battery where there was a 280mm rail gun, and the Memorial at Dunkirk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 Lynne and I also spent one day heading across to Belgium to see the Atlantic Wall Museum and the Menin Gate at Ypres. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 At the end of the weeks holiday, now around the third weekend in August, we set off to Ursel for the show. There we met up with other members of the MVT(NE) who just came for the show. They would all return home after the show, where as Lynne and I we travelling on to Holland for another week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 After Ursel, we spent the last week of August in Holland, finally meeting up with Joris and Enigma for a tour around Arnhem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 We missed one local show as we were travelling home, but a week later in early September we were at the NE Aircraft Museum for the 'Jeeps & Jets' Weekend. A week after that we went to the Embsay Railway weekend, but without the Jeep as we just happened to be in the area when it was on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 A week later again, we were at Stewert Park for a one day living history event. This event covered all eras of history. Two weeks after that, we were at the Wensleydale Railway to check it out for a possible future event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 Mid October brought the Wartime Weekend on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. We bumped into Clive Stevens at this event, a long way from home. This was Clives first trip to the NYMR event, Hope you enjoyed it Clive. I only saw you once before the parade and then never found you again after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 In the first week in November, we went to Stainton Camp for the day. This is now an industrial estate, but the local community are planning some display boards around the camp to show what its wartime activities were. We were there to support their fact finding and open day. This was the last event of the year. We have been out in the jeep a couple of times since, just to keep it alive, but otherwise, it has gone to bed. We still bring it out every so often over the winter and run it every week, but there are no more events for a while now. We need a rest anyway, it's been a busy season! The jeep now has 6103 miles on the clock since getting it in April 2005. Hope everyone else had a fun year, despite the weather. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 A nice look back over the season Steve and to bring back some memories I bet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 You poor jeep has to work hard to earn its keep! Very interesting to see that one of those railway guns has survived, and must say I'm finding it increasingly difficult to distinguish betwen photos of REAL and MODEL aircaft, even when I think I know which is which!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 It sure has worked hard this year ( actually every year!! ), but I bought it to play with, not to be a 'Hangar Queen'. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 Great set of pic's and memories of events attended, Sreve. Cheers for posting then. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M5Clive Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 A good run-down of the year indeed! Enjoyed the pictures very much - And yes we were a long way from home up at Pickering, North Yorks, but it was a fun weekend, especially seeing the A4 Gresley Pacific chuffing up the line - Shame about the gloomy weather though! Lets hope 2008 is as exciting - Make sure you put Route to Victory in your diary for next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 :tup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martylee Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Looks like you had a busy year! Good for you and good inspiration for the rest of us! Very nice photos indeed. This made me dicide to get a new camera for the 2008 season. Thanks! Marty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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