Pickering Wartime Weekend 2010
Pickering Steps Back In Time For The Annual Wartime & 1940's Weekend
Pickering Wartime Weekend is now one of the most popular events of it’s type in the world. A weekend of fun and frivolity where groups of people get together to re-enact, drink, dance and be merry.
Pencilled in for 15th, 16th and 17th October 2010. With these dates to be confirmed. Pickering wartime weekend promises to be yet another blast from the past.
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Images from left to right: (1) Neil Parkington As Field Marshall Montgomery - also the Wartime Weekend Event Co-Ordinator of the East Lancashire Railway. (2) Glamorous ladies of the 1940's - All the way from Teesside (Left to right) are Debbie Watson, Sara Fellows and Andrea Watson. (3) Left to Right, Paul Dalby and Shane Hardy patrol Levisham Station, searching for French Resistance. (4) German Machine Gunners David Toynton & Paul Walker - from the Das Reich re-enactment group. (5) A very worried looking Resistance Fighter Is Arrested as the German Forces occupy the village of Levisham. (6) Left to right: Steve and Katheryn Meadwell, Barbara and George Hughes dress up as 1940's civilian workers. (7) Shirley and John Falkiner from Leeds. As 1940's civilians. (8) John Fisher, 1940's bicycle delivery boy of 'Arkwrights Store - from Suffolk. (9) The US Airborne troops guarding a 25 pound artillery gun. (left to right) Thomas Gray, John Gray and Dennis Smith. Members of the Hook Up 44 re-enactment group. (10) Wartime military nurses, pictured boiling bandages. (11) From 'The Sons Of Beaches' re-enactment group (left to right) Tony Rollins, Mick Johnson, Andy (Tough) Bradley and Jason Savage. Pictured at Camp Beck Isle, Pickering. (12) A wartime spiv is arrested by 1940's Military Police, outside the Conservative Club, Pickering Market Place. (13) Pictured in a USA Navy Jeep - all the way from Doncaster - Becky Goodwin. (14) 1940's Police Officers - (Left to Right) PC Paul Crisp and Sergeant Tony Stevenson.
Images from our library : First Published: 2006