Foreign Field has its first event in the south of England in the county town of Trowbridge in Wiltshire. This year for the Veterans Weekend Foreign Field has been commissioned to provide a range of living history displays and arena shows featuring training, operations in the field and vehicles to augment the already popular event..

Following the spectacular weekend at Elsecar in September, Foreign Field has been contacted and booked to provide another for 2008.

Moving slightly back to the 30th & 31st August 2008 Elsecar Wartime Weekend will be returning for its fourth year featuring the return of the liberation of the station, the gunnery display, the Baby Boot Camp and of course the return of Paul Harper and the Ockbrook Big Band in the evening's dance.

With Elsecar having both a beatiful venue but a small available budget. Foreign Field actually invests in this event and works in partnership with the railway. If you think this arramgement might benefit your venue then please contact us.

Glorious weather blessed the first Sedgefield Village Veterans Weekend and for the first time Foreign Field occupied the centre of the village with wartime camps and vehicles.

Ceddesfield Hall, a beautiful old Georgian manor house became the backdrop for the afternoon's battle demonstration as the combined allied forces fought to take back an Axis commandeered chateau.

Inside the hall was a huge and varied display of original wartime household items and people on hand to teach visitors all about them.

Music and entertainments were provided in the local pubs, clubs and care homes as well as the Drill Show, People of the War Show and Gunnery Demonstration in the main village square the morning's demonstrations and attractions were rounded off by an air display of a Hawker Fury, the forerunner of the famous Hurricane.

Then the attention was taken to the assault on the hall. Simulated artillery barrages and rocket attacks opened the way for a fierce firefight up the hill to the rear door of the hall with the Union Flag being flown from the top window to mark the allied victory.

The event was incredibly well attended with visitors getting into the spirit with wartime clothing, the local pubs putting up wartime propaganda posters as well as bomb tape on the windows.

It was the first event of this kind for Sedgefield and we are proud to have opened their events with a bang.

The Easter weekend of 2008 is given over to the Airborne Forces at the Staffordshire Regiment Museum, the home of South Stafford Airlanding. Over the course of this new event Foreign Field will be showcasing the airborne infantry of Britain, America and Germany.

Come along and see the training of both parachute and gliderborne soldiers, have your children trained hard for the elite regiments and see the jump tower in action.

South Stafford Airborne Weekend will be 23rd & 24th March 2008 at the Staffordshire Regmient Museum, Lichfield.

May, as usual brought with it rain but this wasn't sufficient to stop thousands of people coming out to take part in the annual Pudsey Carnival.

Foreign Field started the show by parading troops of both Axis and Aliied forces through the town centre led by our enthusiastic RSM, pausing for a moment of remembrance at the town cenotaph.

The show closed with a Foreign Field battle demonstration featuring an allied airborne assault on a German fuel depot.

At the close of the show we were delayed in leaving by enthusiastic members of the public wanting to know more about our events and the history behind them.

A big thank you to all who took part.

Plans have already begun for our 2008 season by visiting the venue in Sedgefield, Co. Durham for an English Civil War spectacle. The May Day Bank Holiday weekend in 2008 will beat to the sound of the drum and musket as the forces of the King clash with Cromwell's New Model Army.

Foreign Field has been approached to arrange the presence of hundreds of combatants as well as a full domestic living history camp featuring many of the authentic skills and traditions of the time. All funds raised from this event will be going to the Sedgefield Veterans Group and a charity of their choosing.

We are proud to be supporting this event, which will steadily grow in size over the first three years to build up to the largest event of its kind in the north of England.

The 1st and 2nd September will see Foreign Field returning to the Heritage Railway market thanks to a new cost-sharing partnership agreement with Elsecar Preserved Railway Group.

Following the staging of two previous smaller Wartime Weekends the arrangement will pave the way into a regular annual spectacular featuring battles, drill, weapons displays and the Home Front.

Also coming under the Foreign Field banner this year will be the popular Big Band Dance featuring the Ockbrook Big Band as the headline act and compered by 40s Entertainer Paul Harper.

Previous Wartime Weekends at Elsecar have been active, educational and popular and Foreign Field is taking this bigger, better and louder than before.

If you think that your venue would welcome this sort of input please contact Foreign Field and we will discuss an arrangement.

The event will take place on 1-2 September at Elsecar Heritage Centre in South Yorkshire. [More]