The Heavies Are Coming
The Shutters at Gotherington
Hawker Hurricane display
50 Days To Go
Accommodation
A Magical Location
Where They Served
14th April 2015 More tremendous news! Elizabeth Halls will be bringing her Singer Le Mans CHU 944 to Pre-War Prescott again this year – as part of her ‘Where They Served’ airfield tour in aid of the RAF Benevolent Fund and in memory of her night fighter father who owned and cherished an identical Le Mans during the war. Last year, I think we gathered six Le Mans to support Elizabeth who is now about to commence her commemorative tour of all 59 airfields up and down the country that her father landed at during the war. The actual Tiger Moth in which her father learned to fly will be displaying for us during the lunch break. It was scheduled to join us last year, but the Biblical tempest kept it tightly in its hangar – we have booked sunny skies for this year!
We therefore we cordially invite all Singer owners to join Elizabeth at Prescott, and of course we will park you all together in the Paddock once more. Elizabeth’s ‘Where They Served’ tour website may be found at www.wheretheyserved.com.
Today we received eight more entries and passed the 200 mark for booked climbs – so we’re half way to being fully booked. If YOU have not booked yet, NOW is the time to do so if you want to blast up the hill!
Tremendous news!
11th April 2015 Tremendous news! We have secured Hawker Hurricane R4118 for our Battle of Britain 75th Anniversary Victory Party in the evening of Pre-War Prescott! With 49 combat sorties, five enemy aircraft destroyed, and being itself shot down in the Battle of Britain, Hurricane R4118 is regarded as the most historic British aircraft to survive in flying condition from the Second World War. Even more significantly, this aircraft is very rarely seen, having flown just fifty hours since its meticulous restoration was completed in 2007, and it is currently being offered for sale in the USA , so 2015 may very well be the last opportunity to see it in the UK. The aircraft will be giving a full aerobatic display over the Clubhouse as the sun goes down. Do NOT miss this tremendous party and very possibly one of the last chances to see this British icon in the skies over England! Victory Party tickets may be pre-ordered here. (If you have already entered Pre-War Prescott and wish to add Party tickets to your entry, please use the entry form again, and we will add your party tickets to your entry.)
See and hear R4118 here. Pump up the volume! Per Ardua Ad Astra!
Pre-War Prescott is 100 days today
Christian will be joining us from Germany again this year, as he does every year!
9th April 2015 Pre-War Prescott is 100 days today! This week we received no less than eight entries from Dutch MMM MG owners who will be ‘raiding’ Pre-War Prescott this year in force. They will all be at the evening Battle of Britain Victory Party on Saturday evening and entering the Sunday rally to make a weekend of it. With other entries coming in from Holland, Germany, Spain, New Zealand and the USA, our overseas visitors will certainly add an international flavor to the weekend’s proceedings!
A quick word about catering over the weekend. We will be holding our informal Reception at the Shutters Inn, Gotherington (about two miles from Prescott hill) on Friday evening where meals will be available. The Prescott Clubhouse will be open for breakfast from 9 a.m. on Saturday and will be open all day serving full English breakfasts and lot of other nice things such as coffee, cakes, lunch and afternoon teas. The Clubhouse will also serve Continental breakfasts for our European guests and we can also cater for vegetarian or any other special dietary needs provided we are advised in advance. This will be in addition to the snack and drinks kiosk in the Paddock. And then there is the sumptuous Battle of Britain BBQ at the Clubhouse in the evening, not to mention our traditional bacon butties and hot drinks on Sunday morning in the Paddock for the Sunday rallyists, followed by a pub lunch, then cream teas on Sunday afternoon and a farewell pub run and dinner on Sunday evening at the Pheasant at Toddington, so nobody will go hungry or thirsty over the weekend!