Date: 14/10/2013

VISITORS flooded into a North Yorkshire town as the streets filled with 1940s glamour for its Wartime Weekend. Pickering’s three-day wartime festival draws thousands of tourists dressed in military uniforms and forties clothing into the town every year. In addition to events in the town and at Pickering’s Showground, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway transformed its stations into historic locations from the era.

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Streets of Pickering flooded with wartime glamour

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VISITORS flooded into a North Yorkshire town as the streets filled with 1940s glamour for its Wartime Weekend.

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Preparations for the Wartime Weekend at Pickering, Friday 16 October 2009. The arrival (and departure) of the military planning team....
Location: Pickering
Company: Whitby and Pickering Railway
16/10/2009 John Furnevel

A NAAFI has been set up on platform 2 at Pickering to provide sustenance to the many soldiers and civilians passing through the station during the Wartime Weekend event on 18 October 2009.
Location: Pickering
Company: Whitby and Pickering Railway
18/10/2009 John McIntyre