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Please read
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Welcome to Somme Battlefield Tours Ltd, which is run by myself,
James Power, and my wife Annette. We organise
Self-Drive and
Conducted tours to the battlefields of the Great War 1914-1918.
Just click the links to find out more.
There are many people offering battlefield tours, but we are one of only a very few UK
fully
registered specialist WWI tour
companies with a proud history of
national
press recommendations and client
testimonials that speak for themselves. I am also a member of the
Guild of Battlefield Guides and the Western Front Association.
Our Self-Drive Tours
People who wish to visit the battlefields of the Great War quite
often first think of a conducted tour. This option has its
advantages, and we have been undertaking such tours for many years.
However, for those truly seeking to reveal the legacy of the Great
War, nothing can beat the freedom of exploring the battlefields,
without the constraints of a coach/minibus group dictating the pace.
If
you intend visiting the battlefield you need to be well briefed.
Many visitors just turn up thinking all will be clear, which is
certainly not the case. This is where our Self-Drive guide expertise comes in to play in
providing you with an abundance of friendly maps, plans, diagrams and easy to
follow narrative and directions. Our Self-Drive tour 'package'
also includes your hotel accommodation and Channel crossing (for UK
travellers) all dovetailed together so all you have to do is just
pack and go - we make it as simple as that!
We can
also arrange for you to have the personal services of an
English speaking guide for a half or one day personal tour, in addition to our
Self-Drive tour guides. This service is particularly popular with
visitors from Australia, New Zealand and Canada who may already be
in France and who wish to focus on
specific battlefields where their fellow countrymen served.
PLEASE BOOK AS
FAR AHEAD AS POSSIBLE AS THE HOTELS WE USE SOON BECOME FULLY BOOKED.
To
find out more about our Self-Drive tours please click
here.
We would like to extend a special welcome to visitors to this site from
the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland (Eire), India and China in recognition
of
those soldiers and workers who came from so far away to serve in the Great War.
We accept payment by credit and debit card
See 'Contact Us' for more about
us
(we are based in Wimborne, Dorset, England)
Thank you for visiting or website
James Power
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Click here for something about me
last updated
7 May 2008
Member
of the Guild of
Battlefield Guides
What the national
quality press
have said about our tours
Click the logos...
The
only specialist WWI company to appear in
Top Ten Battlefield Tours
2008
(Daily Telegraph 16 April 2008)
The
only specialist WWI company to be recommended in the
Sunday Times
"52 Great
Weekends for 2008"
30 December 2007
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"Mark the 90th anniversary of the end of the first
world war with a self-drive tour of the Somme. Somme
Battlefield Tours (01202 880211) provides excellent
guide packs, with trench maps and superb commentaries."
The
only WWI company to be a finalist
in this year's
'Paul Morrison World's Best Tour Guide'
competition organised by Wanderlust travel magazine in
conjunction with the
Daily Telegraph
The
only specialist WWI company to be
recommended in the Independent's
"Complete Guide to Great War Travel'
11 November 2006
"A special kind of field trip"
Copyright
© James Power 2008
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19 Old Road
Wimborne Minster
Dorset
BH21 1EJ
England
Tel/Fax: +44 (0) 1202 880211
Clients who have
already booked and who need to contact us to make amendments etc
should contact us on the
above office number.
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If no reply please call the below number, including the '0044'
(even if calling from UK)
0044
750 922 4353
if no reply from
this number please call
07776 195
773
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What people have said
about our Self-Drive tours...
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here to see all letters)
The battlefields
today. . .
The British Front
Line
Fricourt German
cemetery
(Somme)
The farmers other 'crop'!
Other 'then and
now' images of the battlefields
Delville Wood (below
- Somme 1916)
'then and now'.
Could those soldiers who experienced the horrors of this wood have ever
imagined that one day little children will skip through the trenches of
yester-year, seemingly unaware of the legacy beneath their feet...
The Basilica at
Albert
'then and now'
(click to enlarge)
.jpg)
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