As we all know, virtually everything in 2020 was cancelled, with the sole exception for us of a single lovely wekend at Stonehurst Farm in Mountsorrel.
I will leave the rest here as a glimpse of what might have been…
We start the season with a static display at the Abbey Pumping Station in Leicester on the Sunday of the May Bank Holiday, 3rd May. Who knows, we may test some pumps or ladders!
We have been invited to a school in Nottingham for 7th May, and at Lowdham Village Hall for the VE day anniversary on 8th May.
The next weekend, we are at Melton Mowbray (16th-17th May) where we are planning a 3rd story rescue with the Turntable Ladder.
Sunday 24th May, we will be at Hoveringham Vintage Vehicle Rally, where we will be doing a display in the arena.
The Great Central Railway is at war over the weekend of 5th-7th June. We hope to stage an air raid.
We are back again at the Severn Valley Railway Wartime Weekends, 27th / 28th June and 4th / 5th July. Again, a major air raid at Kidderminster Station. This was a major success, last year, so look out to see if the NFS can save the local fuel and explosives dump from the Nazi bombers (all four days).
11th-12th July we are at the Black Country Living Museum with a training demonstration, and a bit of pumping, as they have a canal with an unlimited supply of water!
After a gap over the summer, we are at Newark Air Museum on 3rd / 4th October, where we hope to demonstrate tackling an aircraft fire using foam.
Papplewick Pumping Station have their end-of-season 1940s event on 17th / 18th October, where we will do our usual training and demo using the lake.
Later in the year are some significant 80th anniversaries of the Blitz:
- Sat 14th November is Operation Moonlight Sonata – Coventry.
- Sat 12th December is Sheffield, and the National Emergency Services Museum have a big event.
- Tues 29th December is the anniversary of the worst night of the London blitz, and we plan to go to London for the day.
Although we intend to go to all these events, please check on facebook.com/nfs.and.afs before travelling to avoid disappointment.
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