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17 May, 2012

// 70th Anniversary of Harrowbeer Airfield

70th Anniversary of Harrowbeer Airfield

RAF Harrowbeer website

Confirmed Exhibitors and Displays for the 70th Anniversary Event - 13/14 August 2011

(There are many more organisations who have yet to confirm...)

Aden Veterans Association (South West Branch) - Public awareness and fundraising

Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust - Mr Kenneth Bannerman will unveil the new Harrowbeer Memorial

Airfix Make-and-Paint Roadshow - Free Airfix models to make and take away

Buckland Monachorum Drama Group - Living History Displays

Chandlers Event Catering - Award winning event catering

Children's Hospice South West - 'Mr Fowley' the famous Leonberger dog

                                              - Family Dog Show (Saturday pm)

                                              - Fundraising stall (both days)

City of Plymouth Pipe Band - Remembrance Service, Parade and

                                            play in Arena (Saturday)

 

Combat Stress - 'Coastrider' Mike Woolley raises awareness of the charity and talks about his epic trek around the coastline of Britain

Dartmoor Magazine - Promotional trailer and Publicity

Dartmoor National Park Authority - Outreach Mobile Exhibition

'Desire the Right' Living History Display (Nicholas Davies)

Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service - Fire Safety Advice

Dog Tags & Pin Badges (Gregory Allen)

Ernesettle Community Primary School Model Club - Special commemorative Spitfire diorama

Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education - Publicity and Fundraising stall

Harrowbeer Interest Group - Harrowbeer Airfield Display Boards

Hearing Dogs for Deaf People - Publicity and Fundraising stall

Help for Heroes - Fundraising stall

Holy Cross Catholic Church - Bottle stall and secondhand book stall

Hospital Radio Plymouth - Showstage and PA systems

Jazzacadabra - Swing band (Saturday pm)

Knightstone 'NAAFI' Wagon - Pasties, sausage rolls, tea and coffee

Malcolm Batten - Exhibiting one of Harrowbeer's Jeeps

1940s Memorabilia - (Geof and Michele Farrow)

Military Memorabilia for sale (Ted Butcher)

Military Vehicle Trust (Andy Roberts) - Military Vehicles Display

                               Radio Receiver Display using 'QB' as Call Sign

Military Vehicle (Paddy Raines)

'Millie's Food Memories' - get a real flavour of wartime rationing and the wonderfully inventive recipes of the time with local re-enactors

National Trust at Buckland Abbey - publicity and information

Operation Sunshine - Bric a Brac stall

Plymouth & Cornwall Wing Air Training Corps

                - Remembrance Service/Parade (Saturday am)

                  and Arena displays/challenges (Sunday)

Plymouth Deaf Children's Society - Publicity and Fundraising stall

Prisoner of War Display - (Philip Jenkinson's personal collection)

RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - planned display (Sunday)

                                              - Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane

RAF Harrowbeer Archives - Museum with wartime memorabilia

                             Station and Squadron Record Books and Shop

RAF Recruitment, Plymouth - Publicity and Recruitment

RAF Search & Rescue Display - planned display

RAFA (Teignmouth) - Memoriabilia sales and RAFA publicity

Roger Marks' Spitfire Five - Swing band (Sunday pm)

Rotary Club of Roborough - 1940s Dinner Dance (Friday Evening 12 August)

Royal British Legion - Remembrance Service, Parade and Fundraising stall

Royal British Legion Riders -Remembrance Service, Parade and Publicity

Royal Marine Volunteer Cadet Corps (Plymouth) - Remembrance Service, Parade, Displays

Royal Navy Historic Flight - provisional flypast (Saturday)

                                        - Fairey Swordfish and Sea Fury

Royal Observer Corps - Remembrance Service and ROC Display

Salvation Army Bugler - Last Post etc

Scammell Explorer and Bren Gun Carrier (Bob White, Cornwall)

Snapstar Photography & PR - Mike Kinsey will make a visual record of the event

South West Heritage Aviation Group - Spitfire artefacts on display and mock Spitfire cockpit

                                                       - mock Spitfire cockpit

Spitfire Society - Memorabilia sales and Membership Promotion

Spitfire Spares (Taunton) - Full scale replica Mk IX Spitfire with Merlin engine

                                  - Full scale replica Joseph Kennedy Memorial Hurricane

St John's Ambulance - First Aid Cover for the event

Stonehouse Climbing Wall - fun for all the family!

Tamar Lions - Car Park Marshals and fundraising stall

Tavistock Area Support Services - mobility scooters, wheelchairs

              - minibuses (Remembrance Service and guided airfield tours)

Whizz-Kidz - publicity and awareness raising stall

WWII Jeep - MVT Exeter (Nick Drew)

Yelvercare - Publicity and fundraising stall

 

Whilst every effort will be made to ensure that the organisations/groups/displays are as listed, we cannot be held responsible for unexpected changes in the programme or for non-attendance by any particular contributor


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