Event Reports

This article could quite easily just be telling you how incredible Bicton Park Botanical Gardens is as a location for a vintage show, but I promise there will be plenty of engine talk! The gardens, that date back to the 18th century, hosted their annual Fathers Day weekend, the grounds provides some of the most … Read more

Woolpit Steam Rally 2025 held over the weekend of the 30th May and 1st June. Woolpit is a small village between Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket in Suffolk and can trace it roots right back to the mid-70s as a rally back when the Cotton Exhibition as it was known and later as a rally … Read more

A rather impromptu trip to Kent Saturday morning for the 50th steam rally at Hadlow Down, held on the Tinkers Park site of the Claude Jessop Trust. Some of the engines seen in display belong to the trust, having been saved by C.Jessop and the trust are now restoring and caring for them. The other … Read more

The May Bank Holiday weekend of the 24th to the 26th saw Strumpshaw steam rally return. After a soggy one last year, it was good to actually have some decent weather! Engine numbers were down on previous years with the organisers cutting the numbers of tractors, engines and commercials but a good display was still … Read more

This bank holiday saw the first of what is hoped to be a regular event held in the grounds of Lockey Farm Arborfield. This was a nice small get together with vintage cars, four miniature steam engines including an impressive 9” scale Tasker, stationary engines and vintage tractors. The event is hoped to become a … Read more

The Three Okefords Preservation Society hosted their fantastic annual rally just outside the village of Shillingstone in sunny Dorset. A show I look forward to every year as I have been visiting for as long as I can remember, and exhibiting myself for the last few years! The rally fields are nestled within a wooded … Read more

I was stuck in England with work on the Sunday of Castle Combe Steam Rally 2025, so I decided to borrow a bike and cycle the 10 or so miles to the show to break up my weekend. I was quite taken aback by how far the spectators had to walk from the car parking … Read more