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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- Holcot Steam Rally & Country Fair [15] Holcot, Northamptonshire: 11th year (2008) Hollowell Steam Rally and Heavy Horse Show [16] Hollowell, Northamptonshire: 1986-
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 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 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".
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.
People on a swing boat at Carter's Steam Fair, Prospect Park. A swing boat, colloquially known as a "shuggy boat" in Northern England, is a fairground ride in which pairs of riders pull ropes to swing back and forth. [1] A similar ride called a pirate ship swings in a similar motion but without the rider pulling on ropes.