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Ocean Villas at Auchonvillers

10, rue Delattre
80560 AUCHONVILLERS
Tel. : +33(0)3 22 76 23 66

tearooms@avrilwilliams.com

www.oceanvillas-tearooms.com

Avril Williams is from Britain and from 9am to 5pm serves typical English food, such as fish and chips, omelettes, soup, salads, and burgers in the Ocean Villas Tea Rooms. Bookings can be made by contacting Cathy Carnel at tearooms@avrilwilliams.com
Ocean Villas is also a guest house providing bed and breakfast and evening meals. Outside you can tour the excavated trenches which lead to the cellars used by British troops during the First World War as a first-aid station.


Le Calypso at Longueval

Tel. +33 3 22 85 13 37 or +33 3 22 85 02 05

Run by the Mayor of the village, Monsieur Blondel, Le Calypso I and Le Calypso II bar-restaurants are open in the afternoon and evening, with prior reservation.


Le Poppy at La Boisselle

4, route de Bapaume
80300 LA BOISSELLE
Tel. : +33 3 22 75 45 45

This fine transport café prepares excellent dishes of the day and special menus.


The Battlefields Experience at Mailly-Maillet

2, rue des Cordeliers
80560 MAILLY-MAILLET
Tel/fax : +33 3 22 76 29 60
jackie-bedford@club-internet.fr

www.battlefieldsexperience.co.uk


Rod and Jackie Bedford live at Mailly-Maillet, in the very heart of the Somme battlefields. They have three rooms with bed & breakfast facilities (evening meals also available). They organise tailor-made guided tours, in France and in Belgium, for individuals or for groups (motorbike tours of the battlefields can also be arranged).

Les Alouettes at Hardecourt-aux-Bois

10, rue Mantier
80360 HARDECOURT-aux-BOIS
Tel: +33(0)3 22 85 14 56 or + 33(0)6 71 78 40 74
Fax: +33(0)3 22 85 14 56
lesalouettes2003@yahoo.co.uk

www.lesalouettes.net

Vic and Diane Piuk are British and members of the Western Front Association and Friends of Lochnagar. They have three ensuite rooms with bed and breakfast facilities (picnic lunches also available).

Vic and Diane will be delighted to tailor-make a guided tour for you either by car, on foot, or by cycle either here on the Somme or in Flanders.

Their house has over 1500 books and numerous archive videos, in particular veteran accounts related to the Great War.

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Les Bieffes at Mailly-Maillet

27, rue Pierre Lefebvre
80560 MAILLY-MAILLET
Tel./fax: +33 3 22 76 21 44

Paulette Pécourt has three rooms offering bed & breakfast facilities in her home, which used to be a first aid post during the war.


Bernafay Wood at Montauban-de-Picardie

55, Grande rue
80300 MONTAUBAN-de-PICARDIE
Tel./fax: +33 3 22 85 02 47 or +33(0)6 11 18 05 09

bernafaywood@aol.com

Monsieur and Madame Matte, collectors and enthusiasts of the First World War, have opened three rooms with bed & breakfast facilities in what was the former Montauban railway station, at the heart of Bois Bernafay.


Martine Warlop at Fresnes-Mazancourt

1, rue Génermont
80320 FRESNES-MAZANCOURT
Tel. : +33 3 22 85 49 49
Fax: +33(0)3 22 85 49 59
www.maison-warlop.com
martine.warlop@wanadoo.fr

Martine has 4 rooms with bed & breakfast facilities in this attractive contemporary designed house; you can also savour the delights of the local regional cuisine and taste the local wines; gastronomy courses are also organised.

Beaucourt Station

Philippe FERET
1, route d’Albert – 80300 BEAUMONT-HAMEL
beaucourt-station@wanadoo.fr
www.beaucourt-station.net
Tel: +33 (0)3 22 76 14 18 - 06 16 28 60 59 – Fax: ++33 (0)3 22 83 00 02

Open every day from 11am to 7pm.
Taken on the first day, the station was a rallying point for the 63rd and it was from near here that Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Freyberg launched his successful assault on Beaucourt.
Snack: pizzas, salads, fish and chips, roast chicken, sandwiches, etc
Tea Room: English tea (Tetley and Yorkshire), cakes and ice-creams.
Shop: hand made crockery with poppies, products containing poppies: syrup, liquor, candies, etc…