Brigade Activities

Brigade Adventures

Detailed below are some of our adventures which particularly in latter years have involved raising money in support of our local community:

Eleanor Christening	1981- Boughton House An airfield Fire Tender was purchased from RAF Bitteswell for £600 and was christened "Queen Eleanor" after Geddington's most famous inhabitant. Click title above for more information.

Click photo above to enlarge	1982 (August) - Duxford A trip to the Duxford show of 1982 which included a fire engine competition. Photograph aside shows members of the brigade attending. Click title above to see more.

Brigade dinner attended by ETHEL Click photo above to enlarge	1982 (November) - Mildenhall An invitation to visit and experience life at RAF Mildenhall. Click title above to see more.

Target practise	1987 - Swynnerton GVFB Fireman Major John Hughes invited the brigade to visit his TA camp. Click the title above to see more of what happened during the weekend.

Setting off	1989 – The Source of the Ise The first great adventure when the Brigade set off upstream to the source of the Ise. Ten hours later we emerged at a muddy puddle overlooking Naseby. Click title above to see more.

Buckingham Palace 1994	1994 – Blazing the Trail On 28th November 1290, while on her way to join the King in Scotland Queen Eleanor was taken gravely ill and died at Harby, Nr Lincoln. Her body was taken to and entombed in Westminster Abbey. The King was so grief stricken he gave orders that every place where her bier had rested, a cross be erected in her memory. In total there were 12 crosses but today only three remain. The one at Geddington is in best condition and represents her love for the area and that the beir rested here on 7th December 1290. Click the above title for more.

	1996 - Les Attaques 1996 saw the first GVFB visit abroad. The then Commanding Officer Dick Green devised and drew up a scheme to take some Geddington villagers over seas! Click the above title to see the relevance of the petrol pump pictured aside.

1997 CO LLoyd Marlow	1997 – Spanish Origins The fire engine and brigade members journeyed to Spain, to Los Heuglos Abbey where Eleanor was born and history began. Click the above title for more.

Carnarfon Castle	1998 – Burning Ambitions Climbing the "four peaks" was the aim but at Carnarfon Castle in the shadow of Snowden a further connection with Eleanor as this was where she gave birth to the first Prince of Wales. Click the above title for more.

Preparing for the “Paddle”	2000 - Blazing Paddles This adventure was to Canoe from the Geddington Bridge to the sea. Five days and 120 miles later we emerged with blisters and aching limbs at the Wash. Click the above title for more.

Map of Norhamptonshire and villages visited	2002 - Feet of Fire Friday 18th October and a fresh autumn evening saw 16 members of the Brigade meet at the Cross to undertake the 2002 great adventure. Over the weekend 25 members circumnavigated the County boundary – 175 Miles. Click the above title for more.

Where is this pub?	2004 - Aleblazers The 2004 adventure was "Aleblazers" - a dramatic departure from customary activities involving firemen in visits to assess every pub (some 650 plus) in Northamptonshire. Click the above title for more.

Making amends	2006 - Longshanks Redemption On 3rd & 4th June members of the Brigade visited the death place of Eleanor at Harby in Lincolnshire. Click the above title for more.