A FIFTEEN strong team of volunteers are putting the finishing touches to a year long effort.

Lymm Historic Transport Day will take place for the sixth time next Sunday, June 24.

And with the drive-in parade though the village from 10.30am, the sail past at 4.30pm and a spitfire flypast at 12.53pm, it has taken some organisation.

Even director Alan Williams said: “Don’t let you anyone tell you that it gets easier every year.

“ In the first year you have the advantage of naïve enthusiasm. After that it gets tougher.

“One of the challenges is to keep coming up with something new while hanging onto all the essentials that people all tell us they love.”

The May Queen field will be packed with exhibits, food, music and entertainment as the centrepiece .

The Lego exhibition provided by Northern Brickworks has been a popular feature for the past two years and this year for the first time there is a make and take model of ECTO-1 from Ghostbusters.

It’s been chosen to reflect the movie theme up on the field where visitors will also bump into Lightning McQueen, The Batmobile and a Jurassic Park 4x4 complete with park gates and roving dinosaur.

There is plenty for transport ‘purists’ and enthusiasts too. Where else in the country will you find a working horse, penny farthings, traction engines, classic cars from the 1920s through to the 1990s along with some great American autos, fire engines, tractors, steam engines, model railways, working buses all in a single show?

Parking on the day comes with a trip into the village centre on a vintage bus while Warrington’s Own Buses will be taking to and from Warrington on a vintage double-decker.

  •  For more information visit lymmtransport.org.uk.

If you come by car then parking and a trip into the village centre on a vintage bus is all in the price or you can even come from Warrington on their vintage double-decker – fares may apply. See website for details.