Barlow Red Barrows – described as lower and slower than the famous Red Arrows fliers – is looking to swell its ranks with two training days in April. Terry Allison, one of the longest-serving members, said: “People will have to have a sense of fun, humility and a liking for beer and pickled onions because that more or less fuels the Red Barrows.”
What puts this north Derbyshire aerial display team in a league of its own is that its members pilot wheelbarrows. Their well-drilled formations include lifting barrows into the air. Terry said: “To get to show level can be an exhaustive period but we supply all the training and the uniforms needed for the pilots to perform.”
What puts this north Derbyshire aerial display team in a league of its own is that its members pilot wheelbarrows. Their well-drilled formations include lifting barrows into the air. Terry said: “To get to show level can be an exhaustive period but we supply all the training and the uniforms needed for the pilots to perform.”
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00:00We think we're a bit like Morecambe and Wise or Spike Milligan, other people might
00:04think we're just rubbish but we think we're quite funny and people do seem
00:08to like it at the shows and that we do so.
00:15We base ourselves on the on the Red Arrows with the adage that we are lower
00:20and slower and considerably older and not as good-looking but all that said we
00:26we run around the field doing what we would call formation manoeuvres and just
00:34try and make people laugh you know we have a great uniform it's kind of the
00:40red t-shirt, white shorts, blue tights, red caps, giveaway sunglasses that somebody
00:47got from somewhere, these things have been going for 10 years we just try and
00:52say to people put your phone down for a bit have a bit of fun with us and who's
00:58going to want to watch a video clip of us nobody so join in you cheer have a good
01:02day and be involved.