We may still be in the final grip of winter so what better time to look back to the summer of 1988.

It’s August of that year, to be precise, when the good folk of Moretonhampstead were celebrating their annual carnival in their own special way.

Go to blazes - a scaled down version of the town’s latest fire appliance took to the parade.
Go to blazes - a scaled down version of the town’s latest fire appliance took to the parade. (MDA Archive)
A mobile stately pile featuring Sir Percival Plonker’s Performing Pride of Prancing Plantagenets.
A mobile stately pile featuring Sir Percival Plonker’s Performing Pride of Prancing Plantagenets. (MDA Archive)
Visiting carnival royalty from Chagford. Although we are led to believe that this was not the official royal party for that year.
Visiting carnival royalty from Chagford. Although we are led to believe that this was not the official royal party for that year. (MDA Archive)