Come see our Vintage Tent in Somerset

Cheese School in the tent

Some of our vintage army tent will be on parade at the http://www.walledgarden.co.uk/ in Wrington, Somerset this coming weekend, the 28-30th October 2011.

Beautiful Wedding setting.

She will be hosting the Cheese School being held by Trethowans Dairy, from Llanddewi Brefi, in Ceredigion, West Wales. The tent goes up on Friday morning in time for the school on Sunday. Both the tent and the Walled Garden venue are available for hire for events and you could get a feel for both if you head over and have a look. There may even be spaces still at the Cheese School, contact Trethowans to find out.

Milkcow Magazine, 1940-50′s Vintage Lifestyle

While working recently at the Americana show at the Newark showground i purchased some copies of Milkcow magazine from a vintage clothing retailer.

I was impressed by its smart design format, the articles and how it showed that this scene is growing in the UK. There are some very stylish vendors of all things vintage in the magazine including clothes, jewellery, cars, bikes, music weekenders and tattoos. Burlesque is quite important in this scene with lots of pics of stylish femmes and the club nights springing up across the UK. We worked with the Scantily Clad burlesque girls at Glastonbury in 2009 when providing tents to the Rabbit Hole. We have noticed how popular our vintage army tents have been over the last few years, with 40′s theme events been a popular choice. See our gallery for pics of a 200 people event last summer.

Check out the Milkcow website, or even better the magazine, for some interesting articles on the music, clothes and fab retailers important to this vintage scene. With the Vintage Festival about to launch this summer it seems the time is ripe for nostalgia, fashion and fun mixing together at events. While wandering around Secret Garden last week there were certainly lots of fancy dress outfits featuring vintage clothes as well as retailers like PrettyRubbish selling clothing to meet this demand.

Vintage clothing trading area at Secret Garden

If you fancy hearing some of the music of the scene check out Mark Lamar’s Rock’n Roll show when it airs in Radio 2 or try Rockabilly Radio for non-stop 40′s/50′s tunes

Tents For Films website launched

Over The Moon Tents in collaboration with Classic Canvas have launched a website that showcases the tents we have provided to the film and television industry. www.TentsForFilms.com has a gallery of photos showing a variety of our tents out on film location and in studios. In future as more projects are undertaken we will be using this site to exclusively provide information relating to tents being used as props.