2015 Season YEARBOOK

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Foreword by Wayne Stokes, Chairman

The end of another year, and a sad one for the group as we lost

our dear friend, the much respected Chris Wildey early on in

the season. His final appearance was at Brighouse, and there is

a photo of him included in this first volume of 2015.

Once again I would like to thank all those members who took

part in the many events featured here. We all do a

tremendous job bringing history alive for local communities

and event visitors. This is despite some scurrilously bad

reporting by some of the national newspapers - in particular

the Daily Mail - whose editors just don't get what it is that re-

enactment is all about. Their disgracefully poorly researched

online piece following Brighouse in June 2015 published over

20 photos taken by their photographer at the event, 80% of

which did not show our members, yet all of the people dressed

in German gear were alleged to belong to Northern Forties.

Some of our members had to endure a period of unfair

publicity, which we have come to expect from a rag too dirty to

even use as loo paper.

On a positive note, our group's own event at Hooton Park

proved to be a success with local people and other local re-

enactors, so we are running it again in 2016. I hope that as

many of you as possible will be able to attend and participate,

and Maggie and I look forward to seeing as many of you as

possible in the new season.

Foreword by Mark Anthony Craig,

Secretary

The end of another year - and a particularly sad one for me,

losing my dear mother over christmas. Although, because of

her increasing illness over the years, my mother was never able

to attend an event to see me "dressed up", she had faithfully

stitched badges onto my German uniforms in the early days

when I started re-enacting. She was initially surprised when I

graduated from doing RAF to Luftwaffe, but said she

understood that it was important to remind the younger

generation of what it was like for her generation enduring the

bombing raids when she was little girl.

This year was more of a challenge for me to find photos of our

members. Some of you very keenly send me your efforts

during the year, but I suspect that several of our members take

up so much time talking to interested visitors that they forget

to take photos of themselves at events. Therefore, moreso

than I would have liked, I have had to raid the internet for

photos taken by keen photographers who follow WW2 re-

enactors. I am grateful to acknowledge the work of some of

them here: Paul Gregory Mills, Chris Hall, Digimark

Photography, Alison French amongst others.

In a few years time, you will look back on this annual record of

our group's activities and say to yourself and your friends: "Oh

yes! I remember when...... Remember that?"

Wayne Stokes Mark Anthony Craig

Phil Allen

Asuncion Almendral

Bev Ball

David Barrington-Smith

Linda Barrington-Smith

Mike Batten

Mary Batten

Sue Beal

Judith Berry

Joanne Blackmore

Rachel Blackmore

Bill Bolton

Pete Bolton

Andy Boyle

Paula Brooms

Maggie Case

Mark Anthony Craig

Paul Conybeare

Les Constantine

Veronica Constantine

Andy Cullup

Carol Davis

Bill Davis

Colleen Devanney

Ron Devanney

Andy Driffield

Matthew Driffield

Malcolm Edwards

Don Eldred

Elaine Eldred

Ashley Everton

Connor Fawcett

Gary Fiedler

Joe Finn

Bob French

Alison French

Ruth French

Paul Gardner

Dave Garvey

Sheila Garvey

Lyn Gumm

Richard Gumm

Bob Ham

Steve Heappey

Melvyn Heappey

Kara Halliday

Graham Holroyd

Lynda Holroyd

Josh Holt

Tony Howell

Kenneth Johns

Dan Jones

Graham Jones

Graham Lamb

Wayne Langley

Ethan Leatham

David Leatham

Alan Lewis

Joy Lewis

Martin Littlejohn

Lesley Littlejohn

Ara Mekhdjian

Ged Miley

Shaun Millgate

Mandy Millgate

Paul Neave

Trevor Palmer

Susan Palmer

Alex Parsons

Tony Parsons

Seth Anthony Elion

Parsons

Christine Pearson

Antonio Perez

John Plant

Margaret Plant

John Poole

Shelley Poole

Wayne Potter

Steve Roberts

Lesley Roberts

Kevin Sadler

Derrick Sanderson

Anthony Sibson

Tom Simkins

Fred Smith

Lyndon Stanworth

Annmarie

Stanworth

Adam Stanworth

Patricia Stanworth

Victoria Stanworth

Derek Stanworth

Wayne Stokes

Alan Taylor

Ben Taylor

Scarlett Taylor

Lee Thornton

Jeffrey Topham

Christine Topham

Malcolm Tyas

Rita Tyas

Eric Umpleby

Miriam Umpleby

Ashley White

Shannon White

Chris Wildey

Mary Wildey

Gabriel Winrow

Whilst most of the photos in this Yearbook show Northern Forties members, some photos may also depict members of other groups and members of the public visiting the

events which we attend.

All photos are copyright 2016, Northern Forties Re-enactment Group and may not be used elsewhere without permission.

For more details, see www.northernforties.org.uk

Members active during the 2015 season:

Chester International Living History Fayre: 9th - 10th May 2015

Positive press coverage for the Chester Event (Daily Mail and The Sun editors to note how reporting of WW2 events SHOULD be done!)

Batley Vintage Day: 30th May 2015

Lincolnshire Aviation Centre, East Kirkby: 6th - 7th June 2015

Brighouse, Yorkshire: 6th 7th June 2015

Great Central Railway: 6th 7th June 2015

Cosford International Airshow, 14th June, 2015

Heywood, Lancashire: 20th June 2015

Harrogate, Yorkshire: 28th June 2015

Yorkshire Wartime Experience, Yorkshire: 4th 5th July 2015

Thorpe Camp, Lincolnshire: 11th 12th July 2015

Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire: 18th 19th July 2015

Random photos, locations unknown

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