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With a nice weather forecast, Lynne and I went topless to the N.E. Military Vehicle Club annual rally at Ryhope Pumping Station.
The show has missed two years due to covid, our last trip there being 2019.
The museum was almost lost to a spontaneous ignition coal bunker fire at Easter, thankfully extinguished before any serious damage was done. |
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It was only around a ten mile drive there and we hadn't been there long when a sea mist blew in, dropping the temperature. It cleared again by noon, leaving blue sky and a surprising amount of heat in the sun. So my morning walkaround pictures were a bit washed out, but the sun brought out the colours in the afternoon ( olive drab always looks good in the sun! ). |
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Numbers were down on previous years, some perhaps down to the cost of living crisis and high fuel costs. However, the club always seemed to have quite an old membership, so I suspect some members will have passed on and their vehicles sold, moving away from the area. |
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Around mid afternoon, the sun had moved around and I was able to get some nice sunny pictures of the vehicles with the trees in the background. The mist closed in again late afternoon as we were packing up, so we had a dull and more chilly drive home. We stopped half way home to fill up with fuel ready for Beamish. |
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