Rlangham Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 Mario and Thomas as Prisoners of War Motor narrow boat 'Peacock' of Fellows Morton and Clayton. Not sure of the vintage of this boat, but the crewman I went on board with told me the first purpose built motor boat was built in 1912. The Old Contemptibles Undoubtedly the best part of the weekend was the saturday night Me on a 1916 Sunbeam War Department model as dispatch rider, Lynsey as WAAC REO charabanc with British, Australian and Belgian troops and nurses on board 325hp Sunbeam Manitou aircraft engine, fitted to a single Short 184 seaplane. It was unsuccesful though, out of an order for 840, only 13 were delivered Another view of the gorgeous Sunbeam Half sunken 'butty boat' (horse drawn narrow boat) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 good photo,s again you certainly get around mate ............:coffee: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlangham Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 Certainly do... being flown out to Italy by the Italian Government in three weeks time, and a couple of weeks after that it's France and Flanders for 11th November Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 See you had the same sort of weather and the same sort of Saturday night. I was down at RLC Deepcut with 10th Essex, will post pictures if they don't pay the blackmail. :cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlangham Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 Weather was atrocious - ended up back in Leicestershire with my best mate by just after 2pm Sunday, and a lot of others headed off home at around the same time, very very few public. The weather was very very strange - at midnight I walked across the site from the pub to the entrance to let someone in, and despite a wind blowing, it was actually fairly warm! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 We spent Saturday night sleeping in the Museum. :cool2: with a Gurka cooked Chili for the evening meal. :sweat: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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