Manchester Airport's annual Aviation and Transport Festival took place on the weekend of Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th July. Every year it gets over 15,000 visitors in a weekend.
This amazing event cost just £5 per adult for the entire day. Our 3 year old grandson was free! Car parking was free and the Concorde hangar was also free although "trips" on Concorde were £5.00 for 30 minutes .
The event included a WW2 experience including a lovely WW2 style singer, American WW 2 vehicles, a display of old cars, traction engines, a craft fair, children's fairground rides, aircraft cockpits, live music and much more.
It was a fantastic day.This all shows that despite our well-known dreadful weather we can still have a marvellous time in the mud on a soaking wet day in high summer in the North of England.
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The computer crashed before I could continue another component to my question below.
The Norman conquest impacted the British Isles biogeographically in ways among which included drained marshes.
What might Norman conquerors have done with their drainage?
Might it have been dumped somewhere else, recycled on site or reused elsewhere?
Thank you for your comment below on Jul 30, 2021, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
Normans draining marshlands calls attention to their marsh-draining technology.
Is it known how the Norman conquerors managed marsh-draining?
The paragraph above the 5th in-text image, of the World War II clothes-wearing couple advises us that "Many people joined in the spirit of things and wore WW2 outfits. I asked permission of this lovely couple to put their photo online. They were delightful people and attend all the WW2 events in costume. Aren't they fantastic! She's just gorgeous."
Are the clothes there from the time period or retro interpretations of the time period or both?
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Yes indeed, here South of the River Mersey we have clay ( or claggy ) soil. The land was marshland before the Normans drained it and it is still damp and claggy.
The viewing park has drainage, as does the airport area.
Veronica, What with the 2020-2021 pandemic, I have time to go back to articles I previously read and put in additional comments and questions. Previously, I meant to ask what kind of soil prevails at the festival site (here it's clayey so rain means standing water quickly accumulating and slowly draining. It would be a nightmare for any such event as the aviation park festival).
Aren't they an amazing couple ? The lady was in ankle strap shoes and her husband was in dark lace ups. Such lovely people too.
As for a WW2 picnic - now hat opens up a completely new line of thinking . Salad Sandwiches and eggless cake would have been the order of the day
Veronica, Do you remember what kind of shoes the couple in WW2 dress wore?
So a picnic at a WW2 event: Now what would retro, vintage food be like for such an event?
Yes a wonder to behold but environmentally a nightmare.
There were several steam vehicles. Imagine all those steam vehicles next to the runway so the planes were still taking off next to the festival. The whole event was excellent and as I love a day out I wanted to share it.
We will definitely go again next year. Frank you should take your grandson. He'd enjoy it.
The Concord must have been a wonder to view. I am, however, glad they were decommissioned after the accident in France. They flew so high their exhaust may have been a problem for the ozone layer.
Is that a steam auto in the parade image?