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List of UK Steam Fairs; UK Traction engine rallies; Live listings of UK Steam and Vintage Events (Visitors may also submit to this Events Guide) "Old Glory" Online Guide to UK Events including steam rallies and fairs (dynamic list) - from the Old Glory magazine (Old Glory also publishes a 'Free' paper version at the start of each year listing ...
The Great Dorset Steam Fair (abbreviated GDSF, and since 2010 also known as The National Heritage Show) was an annual show featuring steam-powered vehicles and machinery held in Dorset, England. It covered 600 acres (2.4 km 2) and ran for five days. This used to be from the Wednesday after the UK August bank holiday, but from 2016 to 2022 was ...
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Night-time view of showman's engines, at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, 2007 The Iron Maiden, a preserved showman's engine. A showman's road locomotive or showman's engine is a steam-powered road-going 'locomotive' designed to provide power and transport for a travelling funfair or circus.
From 1860 to 1966, Blandford Forum was a stop on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, which ran from Bath to Bournemouth, though until the bridge was built over the river Stour, opening in 1863, [48] the Dorset Central section of the line terminated at the hamlet of Blandford St. Mary. [49] Blandford Forum railway station, along with the ...
The Scarborough Fair Collection is a museum of fairground mechanical organs and showman's engines, located in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, one of the largest collections of its type in Europe. [ 1 ] The museum was founded by local Farmer turned entrepreneur and owner of nearby holiday park ), Graham Atkinson, who wanted to both indulge his ...
The chalk hills of Cranborne Chase and the Dorset Downs lie immediately northeast and southwest respectively. In the 2011 census the civil parish had 277 dwellings, [1] 265 households and a population of 617. [2] It was the original site of the Great Dorset Steam Fair, which has been held at nearby Tarrant Hinton in more recent years.
The origins of the fair are unknown, though it must be of some antiquity as John Hutchins in the second edition of his History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset (1815) states that it has been an "immemorial custom", for boys and young men to blow horns in the evenings in the streets for some weeks before the fair "to the no small annoyance of their less wakeful neighbours".