Wow! Will Young will be coming to Hungerford on Sunday, 1st December 2019 to switch on the fabulous Hungerford Christmas lights.  Come early at 4pm, for festive entertainment on the steps of the Town Hall. Featuring Hungerford Town Hall band, and performances by Hungerford Theatre Company and Hungerford Primary School Choir.

Hungerford Arcade owners, Adrian and Hazel, Managers, Rita, Wendy and James, Staff and Stallholders all wish Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh a very, very Happy 72nd Wedding Anniversary.

           Sodacan [Public domain]

                    Cecil Beaton [Public domain]

Chris Talbot / Hungerford – War Memorial

What a beautiful morning we had for the Remembrance Parade in Hungerford today.  Lots of glorious sunshine with crowds lining the High Street.  Service men and women as well as Ex-Armed Forces personnel, School children, Guides, Scouts and town dignitaries and of course, the soldiers.  Everyone met at the Town Hall Steps then walked down to the War Memorial for the service.

There was a fly past of the magnificent bi-plane that takes part every year

The REME were immaculate as they marched through the town.

Hungerford Arcade has been going strong now for well over 45 years and we are very proud of what the Arcade has achieved during this time.  We were reminded of this fact by one of our stallholder’s, Nevill Bridger (Nevis) when be brought in a copy of the Newbury District Official Guide 1976 Edition and there we were as large as life!

The Knight with the maiden is has pride of place on the staircase leading up to our offices.

Cancer Crowd Funding

At Hungerford Arcade, we are used to seeing the strange and delightful arrive in  Hungerford, and that was no different the other day when the beautiful sight on the high street were these three red Massey Ferguson tractors.

A quick pit stop was needed as they were heading to Dorset from Buckinghamshire, a lengthy 140 mile journey in one day!

This journey was all in aid of raising funds for Cancer and in particular, Dorset Cancer Care & The Hummingbird cancer support & therapy centre near Bicester.

More information can be found at: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/madbirdsandtractors

A long day gets even longer.   Once the 140 mile journey is completed the tractors will join the Purbeck Coastal Tractor Run.

The Mad Birds include Louisa & Jemma Richardson and Willow White.  This is all in memory of their close friend Jane, on what would have been her birthday.

Hungerford Arcade owners, Adrian and Hazel send their sincere condolences to the family of John Newton whom they have known for many, many years.  He will be sadly missed by so many people not only for his kindness, but for all the wonderful work he did for the town of Hungerford.  John’s love of steam engines is widely known around the country.  In the 1960’s he held Steam Rallies up on the Common to raise money for the town so that wonderful events such as Tutti Day and The Hungerford Carnival could grow and therefore guaranteeing their continuation for generations to come.  A wonderful legacy.

Hungerford Arcade held a Silver Valuation Day on Saturday with one of our silver experts, Daniel Evans (Unit 4A).  It was a very good day, the Arcade was full of customers with their friends and families, all enjoying a good day out.  Dan was very pleased with the valuation and will hold another one later in the year.

Watch this space and our ‘Upcoming Events’ page for more valuation days taking place during the year!

Hungerford Arcade had the first of our twice yearly Classic Car Show courtesy of the West Berkshire Classic Vehicle Club.  Thank you to Colleen and Mike for organising your Members and a big thank you to everyone who brought along 33 of your fabulous vehicles.  The first photographs you can see in our Newsletter which unfortunately, did not have enough room for me to show them all.  Click here to see them.  The second set are shown below.

Julia Brown is the proud owner of this Commer London Fire Brigade Van

Then we had Martin’s stunning 1980’s Dennis fire engine which is well known with all the other vehicles in the club, for raising money for the WBCVC charity, “Help Us Beat Blood Cancer”.  The club itself raises tens of thousands of pounds each year for this wonderful cause.

Stallholder Allen (Unit 108 vintage model cars) owns this beautiful Mini 1250.  One of his collection.  Brought his Frogeye Sprite last time!

This stunning 1930’s Morris Minor is immaculate and a joy to see

Beautiful Aston Martin (a real icon)

Classic 1970’s Jaguar XJ (Looks like new)

Beautiful BMW Convertible

This Gorgeous TR3 has been owned by Tina and Tony for 40 years!

Stunning Morris 8 in Perfect Condition

This immaculate 1983 mini van owned by Michael Barnes has only done 53,000.  The sign on the side came from the business owned and run by his late brother.  Michael kept the sign as a tribute to his brother.

Jeannie Bryant’s fabulous red mini (above) is “the love of my life” and is called Mini Mouse.  Pictured left is one of the reasons why.  There are may others when you look over the car.  Right down to the dust caps on the wheels

Arcade stallholders, Gary and June with their 1980 Lightweight Land Rover.  These come apart very quickly.  Every panel comes off as they were made specially for dropping from aircraft into disaster zones etc.  This one belonged to the Highland Regiment and was dropped from Hercules aircraft.

Hungerford Arcade is very proud to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the D Day Landings which are being held on 6th June 2019.  We held ours a little earlier due to parking of the vehicles. Thank you to Gary, June and their friends for dressing our window display and for bringing their vintage military vehicles to the Arcade to honour all those brave men and women who took part and to remember those who didn’t return.

1942 Bedford OY 4×2 800 Gallon 3 Ton Fuel Tanker (Owned by Gary)

Royal Army Service Corps

Three WWII Motor Cycles 1st Royal Navy, 2nd & 3rd Army

Willis Jeep (Owned by Chris).  The Willis was built with a life span of 14 weeks!!

How wrong they were

We Will Remember them