EVENTS 2009

MVT Event, Firepower Museum, London
16/17th February

Not much to say about this one.  Again we attended this small event with the bulk of the group in attendance and attracted a modest amount of attention from the few public that were visiting the museum.  On the Sunday we were left a bit short handed when several members went to North London to participate in a documentary being filmed by a Production company.

This turned out to be the last event held at the museum as the 2010 event was cancelled due to there being "No synergy for Military Vehicle event at a Military Museum" ??

History Festival III, Murton Park York
18th/19th April

This event was a nice quite one for us, but boy was it cold and the wind cut through you.  Visitors were on the rare side but even with all the spare time on our hands we never quite got anything done.

This may look like a nice sunny day but boy was the wind cold.

COLCHESTER MILITARY FESTIVAL
18th/19th July

 

Colchester is one of our favorite events but being the weekend that Beltring starts caused some minor problems as we were due to attend Beltring as well.  Most of the group could not attend but the few that did attend enjoyed them selves and helped answer the publics questions.  And there were many questions. 

The above picture was taken during a quite spell and we did not get many off those during the Saturday.   Sunday as usual was quieter what with the army pulling out on the Saturday night as usual.

WAR AND PEACE
22nd to 26th July

Mention War and Peace and most people know what you are talking about.  The ones that visit for the day talk of how great it was.  The ones that visit for the week or display and sleep on site tell a different story of inconsideration for others, of muddy showers and load music until the wee hours of the morning.   As per our last visit they had messed up the pitch allocation and I was very insistent we were not going on the Tank field.  A small strip of land was found for us and we were squeezed in-between the stream behind the toilet block and a MVT group.  Where we managed to set up the display after heated discussions with the show marshals which all wanted us to completely rope off with no actual display frontage claiming  Health and Safety  as visitors would fall in the stream if we set up the way we did.  Needless to say No one fell in the stream.

This was a hard event for us.  I had come down with a chill from Colchester, and was well under the weather.  Mark arrived and parked his landrover on the display and we also acquired an 81mm Mortar albeit a Army made Replica which had been used in the recruitment centers (Now all we need is the matching Milan Launcher...Hint, Hint).  We were so busy with the display we lost track of time and was still running the display well into the early evening.