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major change had been made to the weekend events for 2012. The
brilliant Saturday parade, it would seem, has become too popular. Its
length and time taken to do the town circuit has created a problem on
the main road where through traffic has to stop and wait. There are
now two parades and I presume the split is to resolve this and create
more interest on Sunday.
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bright October sunshine the marching bands, re enactors, and historic
cars still paraded on Saturday to huge crowds, but were held up for a
good 10 minutes near the bridge over the beck. |
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vehicle parade start was moved from the school to the showground,
where muddy conditions still prevailed, and took place on the Sunday
morning.
It has become
dominated by American vehicles and whilst these are great, it would be
good to see more British vehicles put in an appearance. This year
there was just a handful.
Neither
parade was enhanced by the idiot runner doing endless circuits on both
days attention seeking and spoiling the scene for others.
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showground was also used as a base for some vehicles and the
exhibition hall had some traders selling mainly civilian clothes. The
main road past the station was closed during both days from 10.00am
and this helped the flow of pedestrians up to the stalls near the
fishing lake, just over the railway crossing to the station car park.
It was
incredibly busy here. The artillery was on display in the station car
park along with a handful of other vehicles. Space given over to
civilian cars here would have been useful to park up a long line of
MVs and create a really good display.
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Members
from the area were out in force enjoying the weekend. If you have not
been it’s hard to describe for you adequately the superb atmosphere
that this event generates. The crowds are simply enormous and having
parked on the showground this year I now know where they all stay
overnight. There the fields are simply full of camper vans and
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management at the showground needs to be improved next year as it
appeared to create more problems than it solved, but overall another
very enjoyable weekend with plenty to see and do.
If you want a copy of any photograph please e mail me: michael.humphreys@btinternet.com
and I’ll gladly send you it to you.
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