Preparation on the ground for the 10th Show at RAF Watton commenced on the Friday before the Monday Show.
Invaluable help was given by two young men from the local Wayland Prison and the Watton Scouts who camped for 2 nights and manned the gate while the site was transformed from empty runways and acres of grass.

The BFS (Big Friendly Showman)
Ivan Chubbock sets the first cone
while in the background Rotarian Paul Weatherill arrives to erect the first of 3 marquees.

On Sunday, the day before The Show, the normally deserted airfield begins to spring into life,as it has done for the 10 years that the Rotary Club of Watton and District have used it as a venue for the Breckland Family Show.

The first show traffic on May Day arrives at 4.30 am and by 4.30 pm over 10 000 visitors will have come and gone and the site will be restored to the rabbits and Stone Curlew with little evidence of our presence.

Rotarian Tim Goddard's Urinal - otherwise known as the Goddard Bathing Machine!

Gerald Grix and Charles Hewson
breathe a sigh of relief after the last part of the Hewson facility is installed.

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