New Year Rally at Colton, Staffordshire.

Downright disgraceful behaviour. The Club and the local centre should pay in full to restore the field when the weather abates. And the rally organisers should be given a full scale telling off. 

The people in charge of the village hall could have cancelled the rally.

I'm surprised, or rather shocked, that any camper would have tugged a van or driven a MH on to ground that wet and fragile.

Nothing surprises me as to what some caravanners/motorhomers will do on grounds that are totally unsuitable for camping due to the amounts of rain that has fallen during the last 3 months.

They deserve to have their membership revoked and the Centre disbanded.  Absolutely outrageous behaviour. Nothing short of outright vandalism and I don't blame the locals for being upset - I certainly would be.

I doubt the rally did all that damage, I had been at the hall in October and it was in a pretty grim state then. And as we all know how much rain fell in November and December. If rallies cancel at a late date by a centre they are often penalised financially by the landowner, usually it's the landowners decision to continue or not. As we don't know the circumstances we shouldn't judge.

Well Rushallmanor you seem to be the one who doesn't know the circumstances, so let me help you. The photograph was taken the day after the rally members left the field. On the 30th December I attempted to walk through the field on the public footpath, the gateway proved to be  impassable without going back for wellies. The tyremark trenches were from the gateway leading directly to each of the parked up vans and the mess made as they pitched up, hence my assumption that they were the cause of the mess. Or put another way, it was 100% obvious.

I have seen rally fields much worse that this, The C&MC's 100th year 2007 National at Blenheim Palace for instance.

peedee

Peedee, the field was like that in October, so the damage caused by the New Year rally was probably marginal, the landowners would have know what was going to happen as it was already churned up. I watched several vehicles being towed on and off. The portion as you go through the entrance gate has a mesh in the grass but it still cuts up.

 Unless very dry, it was/is always difficult not to churn up entrances to rally fields.

peedee