Harrogate Valley Gardens 17th June 2018
The Valley Gardens event is another one-day event, set up to help raise funds for the restoration of the Old Magnesia Well Pump Room by Friends of Valley Gardens.
Our attendance was hindered this year as Cpl Heaton decided to get married on the same day. Having said that we managed a reasonable turnout.
I arrived first closely followed by Colour Sargent Hebden, we were soon joined by Pte Dixon, Pte Pyle and Pte Sprauge. The day started cloudy and threatened to rain. C/S Hebden had brought the dining shelter which we decided to put up just in case it did. We quickly got sorted out and the public started to arrive. Pte Dixon laid out his One Man’s Kit, display which as you might infer is everything that one man would carry. This is a very effective way of getting across to the public just how much the WWII British Soldier was expected to carry.
Harrogate is always a very busy show and this was no exception. Soon we were going through the various bits of the kit to a seemingly never-ending audience.
The threatening rain never materialized and we were treated to a flypast by a Spitfire at 2.30.
In no time at all, it was time to pack up. We were all keen to get off as some of us were due at Adams wedding do later that evening.
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