Wardlaw's Dragoones

Rob Jones · Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Posts: 306 Location: Somerset

This one passed to me by The Huntsman. Dates from the infamous Windrush Valley where the battlefield went up (someone give me a year?)

Do a head count - this is the biggest Wardlaw's ever were - one brief, glorious summer....

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bigmartin · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 112 Location: Bristol

Ah! The unedited version. Very Happy

When they did the postcard from this I got cut off the end. Crying or Very sad

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saskia · Joined: 13 Sep 2008 Posts: 44 Location: southampton

i have a black and white photo of wardlaws but i cant put it on the website but it is on my facebook page.

The Huntsman of Soest · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 65 Location: Somerset

The year was 1994, The field was in flames, check out thew flammable stubble in this picture.

Shouldn't take too much effort to get the numbers back up to these serried ranks. Shame Rob is wearing gardening gloves though Rolling Eyes

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Spingoman · Joined: 04 Mar 2010 Posts: 2

I think the largest turnout may have been Ledbury '95 but I may be wrong (I was very, very drunk at the time).
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The Huntsman of Soest · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 65 Location: Somerset

You must have been. I thought Ledbury was 1992. Or did we bury the chicken at a later one? Either way there is now a housing estate on the campsite (I was there today as a matter of fact).
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Lizwardo · Joined: 12 Nov 2007 Posts: 89 Location: Plymouth

The chicken funeral was at a later Ledbury. I assume it got dug up when the housing estate was built, I often wonder what the builders made of that!

Spingoman · Joined: 04 Mar 2010 Posts: 2

Hi Huntsman, how ya doin'

First Ledbury was '91. Wardlaws marquee, Uley Old Spot. Second was '95 (Germans, Schnapps, scars on the end of the nose).

God, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
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Gruff · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 10:17 am Post subject:

Ah yes, SK nostalgia - any second now someone will mention either Enfield ("Worst muster ever") or Witney ("Cavalier torched, Roundheads suspected")!

The Huntsman of Soest · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 65 Location: Somerset

Don't worry Gruff, when I joined in '85 it was the same. I had just missed the best seasons knotting ever, or the one muster I couldn't get to was the one people are still talking about (the one with the firepikes in '86 or'87), and I suspect it will be ever thus.
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Rob Jones · Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Posts: 306 Location: Somerset

It was Lansdown for me - the campaign up and down the valley, Shay 'iron-balls' Tablewalker and Fred Wedlock on stage - and I missed it ;(

Gruff · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:39 pm Post subject:

Well we were gutted that we missed Weston - the miniature train looked like great fun!