2017 Yanks weekend in Uppermill

UPPERMILL was festooned in a sea of red, white and blue for the annual two-day Yanks invasion.
Thousands of people stepped back in time for one of the best 1940s events in the North-West.
Crowds lined High Street for yesterday’s hugely popular parade, a highlight of the weekend. Led by pipers, they were followed by war veterans, cadets and a large convoy of military and civilian vehicles from vintage bicycles and motorbikes to Jeeps, tanks and trucks.
Re-enactors dressed for the occasion in military uniforms and glamorous 40s fashions, and a cigar puffing Churchill impersonator was a hit with spectators along with a portly policeman, US servicemen, spivs and land girls.
First held in 2001, the event is inspired by the 1979 Richard Gere film Yanks which was partly shot in Saddleworth.
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