Blyth Battery Goes to War  - May 21/22nd

The weather forecast wasn't looking kind for the Blyth Battery event a few days before the show, so I opted to travel each day rather than camp. The predicted showers never really materialised other than enough to put a few spots on the windows, but nothing more. Saturday was warm, sunny but quite windy, but the Battery had around 6000 people through the doors. Sunday usually sees more people attend so they were very pleased with the turnout for day one. 
 
Sunday was bright and sunny again, although all of my pictures seemed to be taken in the moments the clouds came through! The wind dropped off quite a bit and the pleasant conditions brought lots more public down to the coast. In addition to my Dodge, there was a hard cab GMC, Bedford in civvy colours, a Ferret, a German Opel ( I think ), a couple of Champs, and about half a dozen each of Jeeps and Land Rovers, plus some big trucks from the present day Army.
 
 There were also a number of re-enactors camps with numerous weapons and small items on display. There was a battle on the beach both days, but I didn't see either due to watching over my own stuff.

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