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“Would we like to come for lunch?”
Would we just, after the trials we had been going through
in the last 12 months. Lunch at Belvoir Castle with a BBC
Television team seemed like heaven.
Our transport for attending weddings was still our old BMC
FG “three-penny bit cab”, diesel horsebox. Not entirely legal
but as yet sufficiently between MOT testing regulations to
allow it to be tested by “friendly” garages. (This was not to last
much longer).

In fact on the journey to Belvoir we did encounter a police
constable who was positive he could succeed with a decent
prosecution when he stopped us in Sleaford.
We will come back to him in a moment as we have to
explain that behind the small box lorry came a long, flat trailer.
This normally carried the Victoria Carriage (the one Dennis
had ridden in previously), which loaded up and down with
ramps and a winch.
As this Belvoir Castle event was taking place in February
1985, the inclement weather suggested that we offer an
alternative vehicle.
We gave Dennis a choice of carriages and he decided on the
Bow Fronted Brougham, a most attractive and totally enclosed
carriage. (See Wedding at Wyberton).
At the same time, we had room on the trailer for an
alternative, so loaded our elegant 1910 green painted rally
cart. This was an open, two wheeled, two seat vehicle with
very soft springs and a ride like a Rolls Royce.
As we left home it began to snow and by the time we
arrived at Belvoir Castle it was quite deep in places with actual
drifts of snow on the Castle forecourt.

THE POLICE

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