19th August 2013 Airfield Airing

Out with Graham today. We both have a trip booked with the Emergency Services club on Friday so don't want to go too mad. We agreed that a ride out to Wellesbourne Airfield would fit the bill, possibly with an extension if we felt like it. Went through Warwick, Barford and Charlecote before landing at the airfield. This is a fairly flat route which suited us both.

Mini Car

In the Airfield cafe car park was a mini, the original type, not the ersatz BMW job. It looked in very good condition and was clearly well treated by its owner. These were once all over Britain's roads like a bad rash but they are becoming a rarity nowadays. I should think those in a similar condition to this one would command a good price.  When you consider that a total of 5,387,862 cars were made, it makes you wonder where they have all gone to. First built in 1959, and sold for £300, production stopped in 2000. This chap would do well to hang on to this one.

Mini House!

After tea and toast (Graham had chocolate cake and, because we were outside, we were plagued by wasps) we headed home taking a detour through Hampton Lucy. The name comes from the word Ham meaning land by the river and from the Lucy family, big landowners around the village after Queen Mary granted the lease of the land to them in 1557. Near to Charlecote Park is a thatched cottage with this smaller, almost a replica, house in the garden. It looks as if it might be a summer house. 

Back through Sherbourne and Warwick to home clocking up 26.4 miles.