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Charlie

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WW1 Tank
« on: August 17, 2018, 09:50:53 pm »

You don't see one of these trundling down the high street very often! But I did tonight :-))


https://youtu.be/Zn7z3L13Ia8

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Re: WW1 Tank
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2018, 10:14:39 pm »

As  the song went '' It wasn't the Yanks that won the war twas our boy Williie''
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Re: WW1 Tank
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2018, 09:23:41 am »

I live in Tonbridge but am away on holiday any idea why it's there
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Re: WW1 Tank
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2018, 04:22:32 pm »

There is an event being held in Tonbridge Castle this weekend to commemorate 100 years since WW1


https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/first-world-war-commemorated-tonbridge-1901567

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Re: WW1 Tank
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2018, 06:19:18 pm »

Thank you shame I'll miss it
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Re: WW1 Tank
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2018, 07:18:41 pm »

It's a nice movie tank.  Shame they couldn't get an actually Mark 1 or a proper replica like the one Guy Martin was involved with.  Bovington's two original running examples have been retired because of the wear and tear.
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Re: WW1 Tank
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2018, 12:21:45 am »

theres also a big re enactment on Lytham Green, Lancashire this weekend......tanks and all sorts of other militaria, plus tents bivouacs and the odd Spitfire and Messerschmitt 109  to see...…..sadly didn't have my phone or camera, but the whole mile length of the green was taken up by it all...…...what a sight to see.
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