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The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Friday 23rd June 2023.
 
About the photograph.

I parked my car at a field that was used as a car park for visitors. I got out, prepared myself, locked my car, and started walking along the north edge of the car park.

The path leading from where I parked my car to the showground, leads me to this corner of the showground, and this is first static display tank I saw.

This is a British Army Centurion main battle tank of the early second half of 20th century. This tank is acting like a gate guardian for the showground at The Tank Museum.

I set my camera’s settings, fired off some test shots to check the exposure levels, because it was a very bight sunny day, and I needed to adjust for the lighting.

This is the first test shot, and one of the few test shots I fired off, before going into the showground.

I shot in colour, but thought to use Adobe Lightroom to convert this into black and white for a dramatic look. After all, during the days when tanks like those were used, journalist were generally still using black and white film a lot.
 
The Centurion is a British Army main battle tank (MBT).

In 1943, the British government’s War Office asked the department that designs tanks, to make a new heavy cruiser tank, and should withstand the German’s 88mm guns. The requirement was designation as A41.

Prototypes were built around middle of 1944, and tests were carried out, the Centurion did well, and full production started in November 1945, and the tanks entered service with the British Army in 1946.

The Centurion tank may be too late for the Second World War, however the tanks did saw combat in the Korean War.

Australia also used the Centurion tanks in combat during the Vietnam War.

The Centurion tanks also saw various combat in the Middle East with various nations that bought the exported tanks.

By around the 1960s, the British Army started replacing the Centurion tanks with their new Chieftain tanks.
 
About TANKFEST and The Tank Museum.

The Tank Museum is found next to the British Army military base, simply called Bovington Camp, and is used by various tank regiments.

The writer Rudyard Kipling once visited Bovington in 1923, and saw some damaged tanks left from the First World War. He recommended that a museum should be set up.

However the museum was simply a shed, and was not open to the public until about 1947, when the museum was finally set up.

By about 1982, the museum was expanded and modernized, it housed many various different tanks in the Exhibition halls, along with working tanks which are often show in the live action arena.

The museum also has the only working German Tiger I tank, known as Tiger 131.

TANKFEST is an annual live action re-enactment event showing off various working tanks in staged display, in the museum’s showground.

For more information, just Google “TANKFEST, The Tank Museum, Bovington.”
 
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Taken in: UK / England / Purbeck District / Bovington Camp (show map)

Taken on: June 23, 2023

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