75th Anniversary of D-Day

Posted by Mark | Filed under Blog, News, Next events

Tomorrow (27 May 2019) we will be at the Museum of Army Flying for their annual “ War Time wallop” event, where there will be all sorts of attractions, including a hot air balloon, vintage aircraft, live music, dancing, bouncy castles and lots more.

If that is a little too far to travel, next weekend we will be at the 75 Anniversary celebrations in Stokes Bay. It is a whole weekend affair starting on Saturday morning, (1st June2019) at 10 am and closing at 5pm on both days.

It will be packed full of demonstrations, show and tell by living historians, re-enactors, air craft fly pasts, live music and dancing (1940 style). Additionally there will be armoured and “soft skin” fighting vehicles of World War 2 era, and a firing 3.7 inch field gun. As well as “Have a go training sessions” with the Home Guard re-enactors, traders and arts and crafts of the era. It is also hopped that there will be a flypast of the Battle of Brittan Memorial Flight, Hopefully including a Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster. There will also be a “Sail Past” of vintage boats and ships. The whole event is free to attend on both days. However if you at are interested in 1940 music and dance there is a dance night on Saturday starting at 7pm and ending at 10:30 pm. This is a ticket only evening as there is only room for 750 people, discounted tickets can still be purchased (at time of writing) using the discount code “Swing Dance”. Tickets can be purchased from www.eventbrite.co.uk

or the Tourist Information Centre.  

On Sunday 2 June it all happens again with the addition of a remembrance parade with a guard from HMS Sultan commemorating all those that fell during the war, (Including: the playing of   Last post, followed by a minutes silence, and then the playing of Reveille).  The parade starts at about 10:45 and the service will be held near to the Canadian memorial at 11am on the promenade and attended by some VIPs.  

There will be something for everyone in the family and both days promise to be a great day out.