Timetable of displays and activities
A free programme with site plan was available to visitors.
|
Time |
Activity |
Performer(s) |
Location |
|
11.00 |
Gates open/Living history commences |
All |
Living history areas |
|
11.30 |
C18th Cannon firing display | The Association of Crown Forces | Great Meadow |
|
Regency music and song
|
The Madding Crowd | Madding Crowd tent | |
| Home Guard drill | The Civil Defenders and La Columna | Home Guard area | |
|
Noon |
Regency equestrian and Redcoat display | The Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards 1815 and History Horse | Great Meadow |
| Tudor puppet show | Perrotts Puppet Players | Tudor area | |
| Dressing a Victorian lady | The Chatelaines | Chatelaines tent | |
|
12.30 |
Redcoat display | The Association of Crown Forces 1776 | Great Meadow |
| 1940s music and song | The Spitfires | Temple of Pan | |
| Home Guard bayonet exercise and grenade throwing practice | The Civil Defenders and La Columna | Home Guard area | |
|
1.00 |
WWII Soldiers and weapons | The World War Two Living History Association | Great Meadow |
| Fashion through the ages - talk and demonstration | Hands on History | Hands on History tent | |
|
1.30 |
Tudor archery | King Edwards School Living History Group | Great Meadow |
| An estate workers’ country wedding | The Madding Crowd and Farthingale | Madding Crowd tent | |
| Tudor puppet show | Perrotts Puppet Players | Tudor area | |
| Home Guard physical training |
The Civil Defenders and La Columna |
Home Guard area | |
|
2.00 |
Regency Redcoat display | The Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards 1815 | Great Meadow |
| 1940s fashion | The Spitfires | Temple of Pan | |
| Tony’s Tactics Talk – find out how to defeat Nazi tanks! | La Columna | Home Guard area | |
|
2.30 |
C18th Cannon firing display | The Association of Crown Forces 1776 | Great Meadow |
| Music and song commemorating Nelson and Trafalgar | The Madding Crowd | Madding Crowd tent | |
| Tudor soldiers’ drill for Children | King Edwards School Living History Group | Tudor area | |
| Home Guard battle school briefing | The Civil Defenders and La Columna | Home Guard area | |
|
3.00 |
1940 Home Guard battle school display | The Civil Defenders, La Columna, History Horse and Karen Wright | Great Meadow |
| Fashion through the ages - talk and demonstration | Hands on History | Hands on History tent | |
| The Tudor toff’s guide to shopping | King Edwards School Living History Group | Tudor area | |
|
3.30 |
The Tudor Soldier - swords and swordsmanship | King Edwards School Living History Group | Great Meadow |
| Regency country dances and games | The Madding Crowd | Madding Crowd tent | |
| 1935 fashion show, from Sports to City wear | The Blackout Volunteers | Temple of Pan | |
|
4.00 |
C18th Redcoat display | The Association of Crown Forces 1776 | Great Meadow |
| 1940s music and song | The Spitfires | Temple of Pan | |
| Tudor puppet show | Perrotts Puppet Players | Tudor area | |
| Home Guard drill | The Civil Defenders and La Columna | Home Guard area | |
|
4.30 |
Event closes |
All | All areas |
Ongoing activities:
v Living history, including everyday life through the ages, and soldiers’ encampments
v A Tudor picnic party by the Tudor Group
v A chance to “step into a C17th painting” at the History Re-enactment Workshop tent
v Georgian and Regency gentry by Farthingale
v An 1880s garden party with Earl and Countess of Jersey, by The Chatelaines
v A celebration of the Kings Jubilee (on this weekend in 1935) by the Blackout Volunteers
v Danger, UXB! Are you brave enough to assist with WWII “bomb disposal”? With Hands on History
v 1940s Searchlight manned by the Ack Ack Living History Group
v Allied and German soldiers of D-Day, recreated by the World War Two Living History Association
v 1940s Home Front military and civilians recreated by The Sittingbourne Homefront Living History Society (Monday only) and others
v Ealing author Roy Bartlett will be selling his book A Little Boy's War, and taking about his experiences as a child in West London during WWII
v Interesting historical traders’ stalls to explore
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Updated 12 May 2007