Ferryhill Travel - School educational tours and group travel

Visit the Battlefields and Monuments...

....and enable your pupils to gain an invaluable insight into one of the most important events in recent history. We will tailor make the exact tour of your choice or indeed combine the Somme with the Ypres Salient.

Battlefield tours

Ypres Salient
6 Days (2 nights on board ship, 3 nights Belgian Coast)

Coach ex school to remain with you on tour
Return sailings Belfast/Stranraer with Stena Line
Two overnights sailings on P&O North Sea Ferries Hull/Rotterdam or Zeebrugge - including cabins
Three nights full board accommodation in Belgian Coast Hotel

Battlefields Air Tour
5 Days (4 nights Belgian Coast)

Return flights Dublin/Brussels or Charleroi
Daily coach excursions
Four nights full board accommodation

YPRES

Situated in the Belgian province of West Flanders,
some seven miles from the French border, Ypres is an excellent base for studying the World War I Battlefields. Four battles were fought at Ypres, beginning in October 1914. Following the first battle, British lines in front of Ypres formed a semi-circle, or“Salient”, jutting out into German lines and subjecting the Allies to fire from the sides as well as the front. In Ypres every evening at 8 pm, a moving “Last Post” is played on the bugle at the Menin Gate, a custom since 1928.

However, Ypres also offers something for everyone - visit the medieval city with its ramparts, Cloth Hall, and Belfry - all restored after the Great War. You may also choose to visit the unique Theme Park, Bellewaerde.

Excursion Choice

YPRES SALIENT

Full day excursion visiting Poperinge, possible visit to Talbot House. Then on to Ypres to visit the Cloth Hall, possibility of visit to In Flanders Field Museum. Then visit Menin Gate, St George’s Memorial Church and St Martin’s Cathedral, Ramparts Cemetery and Ypres Town Cemetery.

THE NORTHERN SECTOR

Visit Essex Farm Cemetery and Field Dressing Station. Continue for visits to Steenstraat, Boesinge, Artillery Wood and Iron Cross and Cement House. Visit the German Cemetery at Langemarck followed by visits to Poekapelle, Passchendaele and Tynecot Cemetery.