A blast from the past - Festival of Transport

Me and the family went to the Vintage Vehicle show, Festival of Transport at Darley Dale. mum and Dad had got some free tickets from my cousin Colin who owns the land it's held on. It's been held every year for the past few years and generates funds for MENCAP and other charities. It's stunning the amount of vintage stuff there is out there. Everything from steam powered vehicles onwards, taking in agricultural, haulage, military, not to mention classic, vintage cars and motorcycles.

The classic cars were of particular interest to my dad who has two MGBs he's doing up and there were some stunners there, absolutely mint some were. There were also some very nice Triumph Stags that I know my mum always fancied having.

On to the Vintage motorcycles, who should we bump into but Eddy Briddon, former singer of Amethyst 25 years ago!! Now he's changed a bit and I've changed a bit in the meantime (he didn't recognise me at all until Janette said 'Alright Eddy?") Ed does up old bikes and was showing off his 1957 Norton which has won prizes here and there and he says is still road legal at 50 years old!!!

Have posted a pic of him singing with the band at the bottom for reference as to how much we've changed!!



Note the Motorhead t-shirt - still got his roots if not the hair!

Amethyst (l-r Ed, Jon Bigland, megoodself, Steve Gough and Roj Radford) sometime around 1982!!