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Chickerell, Dorset: 2004- Cromford Steam Rally [12] Brackenfield, Derbyshire: 38 years (as of 2008) Dacorum Steam & Country Fayre [13] Dacorum, Hertfordshire: 2007- Great Dorset Steam Fair: Dorset: 1968- Grand Henham Steam Rally: Henham Park, Blythburgh, Suffolk: 1974- Haddenham Steam Rally and Heavy Horse Show [14] Haddenham, Cambridgeshire: 1974-
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.
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 ...
Festivals that involve steam engines and steam-powered machinery of all kinds. Pages in category "Steam festivals" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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.
A road-making demonstration at Great Dorset Steam fair. Many steam rollers are preserved in working order, and can be seen in operation during special live steam festivals, where operating scale models may also be displayed. At some of the UK steam fairs and rallies, demonstrations of road building using the old techniques, tools and machines ...
Hornsby chain tractor. Working scale model at Lincoln steam fair 2008. Richard Hornsby & Sons was an engine and machinery manufacturer in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England from 1828 until 1918. The company was a pioneer in the manufacture of the oil engine developed by Herbert Akroyd Stuart, which was marketed under the Hornsby-Akroyd name.
Aug 2014 (): Engine attended the Great Dorset Steam Fair; Sept 2014 (): First parts of engine's boiler ordered; May 2015 (): LMS Fowler 2-6-4T no 42424 announced as next project after "The Unknown Warrior" Sept 2015 (): Engine visited Barrow Hill Roundhouse for the first time