The Hawker Hurricane Society

This event included re-enactors dressed in period costumes, both Civil and Military as well as period vehicles to help set the scene, yours truly was dressed 1940 Home Guard Uniform as a Captain (yes I have been promoted) and Peter Booker as a American M.P., , we had a very good weekend with a large amount of interest, with the weather mostly dry but very windy so much so as our intended plan of sleeping under canvas in two one man tents on the Saturday night did not happen, but it was a good weekend and a good crowd to including some ex-servicemen & women and ex-munitions workers, it was good listening to their stories.

On Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th June the Hawker Hurricane Society was at the Biggin Hill Air Fair.

We turned up at the gates at 7.30 a.m. to only join the back of a queue of people already waiting to get in, however we did not have to queue long and after going straight to our site (a first!) we set up in record time.

The weather on Saturday was very hot, there was a lot of people there but they were only spending money on food and drinks etc with a few exceptions.

Sunday morning there was no problem getting in. The football game kept the crowds down compared to Saturday. The weather was very hot; it touched 35 deg. C. at one point.

The flying display was reasonable with four Hurricanes flying on both days, plus a Hawker Hunter and a VC 10. We also met plenty of old friends during the two days - in all a quite good weekend.

On Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th May The Hawker Hurricane Society attended the 1940's Weekend event at the Kent & East Sussex Railway at very short notice. We were offered what turnded out to be a good spot for our display just inside the main gate to the station. Everyone had to come past us to get to the rest of the displays and the trains.

All of the stations are decked out to show how they would have looked in wartime with re-enactors dressed in period costumes, both Civil and Military as well as period vehicles to help set the scene.

We had a very good weekend with a large amount of interest, with the weather mostly dry during the weekend and a good crowd to.

We also made a lot of new friends over the weekend; l would like to say a special thank-you to Liz Reid of the Kent & East Sussex Railway for offering to help us out at such short notice and for all her help during the
weekend.

On Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th May The Hawker Hurricane Society attended the 1940's Weekend event at the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway at the request of the event organiser.

When we arrived there it was raining hard and not wanting to put up a tent in the pouring rain we asked if there was any where else where we could set up our display.

We were offered their workshop which we found to be suitable for our display, so we set up in there for the whole weekend out of the rain and the wind but not the cold!

We had a good few people in over the weekend and whilst we were there we found out to our amazement that the very building that we were in was used during the war to weld together the sections of pipe for Pipeline Under The Ocean (P. L.U.T.O.).

The PLUTO project was designed to supply petrol from storage tanks in southern England to the advancing Allied armies in France in the months following D-Day. Detailed information about the project is available from combinedops.com.

The pipes were bought up to New Romney Station by a standard gauge railway to a siding, where the pipes were unloaded and then the sections were welded together before they were loaded onto trucks onthe RH & DR and transported down the coast to Dungeness.