“It was fascinating to research wartime cooking and discover what you can actually do with very little. She said: “Although I do lots of demonstrations up and down the country, this was quite a challenge. This was named after Britain’s wartime food minister and was made with just vegetables, stock and a basic pastry. There were performances by Forties-style singers and a jive dancing workshop while Jill Vallis, from Sonning Common, gave talks on rationing.Ĭhristine Wallace, who appeared on the 2013 series of the BBC’s Great British Bake Off, gave a workshop on baking a Lord Woolton pie. Other attractions included a parade by the Oxfordshire Home Guard, who demonstrated their rifle and gas mask drills, and an amphibious vehicle display featuring Allied DUK-Ws as well as Schwimmwagens, their German counterparts. Mr Stoate stood atop the turret firing a machine gun while the driver fired blank shells from the main gun and explosions were set off on the “battlefield”. They were followed by a number of restored Second World War vehicles, including an M8 Greyhound armoured car driven by Nigel Stoate, the joint organiser of the weekend. In the second battle Allied troops drove Germans into retreat across open countryside. They fired blank ammunition which made the same noise as live bullets and several explosions were set off in the mill pond to simulate mortar strikes. There were two battles on both days, the first of which involved German soldiers storming the estate’s watermill, which featured in the 1976 film The Eagle Has Landed, and taking Allied soldiers hostage.Īnother group of Allies then arrived and drove the Germans back into the woods. They wore original uniforms and carried authentic rifles as well as props such as grenades. More than 500 enthusiasts took part in staged displays while playing the part of British, American and German troops. Hundreds of visitors attended the fifth annual Mapledurham at War event, which took place in the grounds of Mapledurham House on Saturday and Sunday. GUNFIRE and explosions rang out around Mapledurham as the village hosted a weekend of Second World War battle re-enactments.
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