A Typical English Sunday ?
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A Typical English Sunday ?
Well, maybe not. But 70+ years ago, this is how it would have looked. Every year in October, for a Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the picturesque market village of Pickering in North Yorkshire goes back to the last century for a 1940's weekend.
Amost everyone in the village gets dressed up in 1940's clothes and WWII jeeps and trucks (no mutts allowed) arrive to wake up the sleepy centre. Everyone has a fun time and even young people (yes, EVERYONE looks young to me) join in with the fashion of the '40s.
The antique clothing vendors do a roaring trade, and so do the innumerable tearooms and pubs.
I took a few photos of the event, hope you enjoy them........
Ken
Amost everyone in the village gets dressed up in 1940's clothes and WWII jeeps and trucks (no mutts allowed) arrive to wake up the sleepy centre. Everyone has a fun time and even young people (yes, EVERYONE looks young to me) join in with the fashion of the '40s.
The antique clothing vendors do a roaring trade, and so do the innumerable tearooms and pubs.
I took a few photos of the event, hope you enjoy them........
Ken
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Always wanted - Details and pictures of M416 Trailer data plates & M151 data plates & body-tags for my research. Thanks!
Contact address - - muttguru@aol.com
Note for 2023..... Ken..."Less Stress - More Exercise!"
Re: A Typical English Sunday ?
well, they don't want to see a M151, understood. But at least one M201 slipped through the process of allowing WW2 only vehicles...
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1962 M201 and trailer
1966 GTO,1982 E350 Skoolie, 1987 SJ413, 1987 911
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1972 USMC M151A2 w/ROPS (ex Barstow) and M416
1962 M201 and trailer
1966 GTO,1982 E350 Skoolie, 1987 SJ413, 1987 911
Gone: 2xM35A2c, Unimog 404S, Hanomag AL28, DKW Munga
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Re: A Typical English Sunday ?
I can't help but laugh like crazy at that convoy lined up behind the tea wagon...
A lot of nice jeeps there, but that tea wagon is a hoot... I guess if it were over here they'd be lined up behind the beer truck (marked appropriately "water buffalo" of coarse). But maybe they already thought of that with the tea wagon too...
A lot of nice jeeps there, but that tea wagon is a hoot... I guess if it were over here they'd be lined up behind the beer truck (marked appropriately "water buffalo" of coarse). But maybe they already thought of that with the tea wagon too...
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Re: A Typical English Sunday ?
Really nice Ken, thanks for the post!
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1976 or 7? M151A2 "Miss Sandy" Driver, aquired May 2010
Former owner M151A2 "Miss Saigon" Vietnam Rescue Sold Sept 09
Fond appreciation for the M151 Breed!!
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Re: A Typical English Sunday ?
Great pics, THANKS!!
As a Yank, I do have to ask: In the fourth picture from the top, there is a store sign which reads, "PICKERING GUNS".
Is that an actual firearms store, or something else? I understood that personal firearm ownership in GB was not prevalent.
Best Regards,
-Ken
Beaumont, Calif. U.S.A.
As a Yank, I do have to ask: In the fourth picture from the top, there is a store sign which reads, "PICKERING GUNS".
Is that an actual firearms store, or something else? I understood that personal firearm ownership in GB was not prevalent.
Best Regards,
-Ken
Beaumont, Calif. U.S.A.
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Re: A Typical English Sunday ?
We do have the odd gun shop but its nothing that you guys would recognise.
Normally high end shot guns and not much else
Normally high end shot guns and not much else
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Re: A Typical English Sunday ?
Well done! Looks like a great time!
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1950, US M-38 Jeep. Serial # 36.
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1964, M151-A1
1950, US M-38 Jeep. Serial # 36.
1952,US M-38 Jeep
1965, Willys M-274 Mule
1945, CCKW, closed cab, 353
416 Trailer
M100 Trailer
US Army 5 year RA. RSVN 1968-1970