AN exciting 1940s event took place last weekend (September 11 and 12) in Somerset.
Visitors headed to West Somerset Railway to enjoy a 1940s themed trip.
Military vehicles as well as a makeshift field hospital and a firearms display was set up at Bishop's Lydeard train station.
Then passengers headed to Watchet to visit the vintage fair and live music. And when they got to Minehead, there was 1940s music playing, as well as Laurel & Hardy and Winston Churchill look-a-likes entertaining guests.
On Saturday evening there was a 1940s dance, accompanied by music from The Liberty Sisters and the Deane Big Band.
Both the area and the railway have strong connections to the events of the 1940s and the Second World War in particular.
The railway was used notably to transport evacuees to Somerset and Exmoor in 1939 and concrete pill boxes can be seen along the coast at Blue Anchor and Dunster facing out into the Bristol Channel.
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