A week away in Norfolk for us in April and we had to visit the Thursford Steam Collection. Having never been there before, we had heard lots of reports from friends and were looking forward to our trip. As we arrived in the car park there was only a handful of cars, then reading the [...]
Bressingham steam museum is located on the A1066 Diss to Thetford road two and a half miles west of Diss, it is well signposted and can be easily found next to a large garden centre. Admission to the museum is through the garden centre. On entering, our first impressions were good with a narrow gauge [...]
This rally is put on by the Eastleigh Vintage Machinery Preservation Society over the weekend of the 14/15th of May and is held between Colden Common and Eastleigh, it is well established having been in this location for a number of years. This is an ‘old fashioned’ or ‘traditional’ event with a well supported steam [...]
While on a short steam based holiday in Norfolk in April we visited the Strumpshaw Steam Museum and as none of us had been there before we were looking forward to the experience. The museum was fairly easy to locate, signposts leading us from the Norwich to Great Yarmouth road straight to the door. On [...]
The weekend of 14th/15th May was Victoria’s first rally of the season. Victoria and her wagon had been taken from Petersfield to Cheriton on the Sunday before the rally and left at a friends house. On the following Thursday (12th) they were driven the 11 hilly miles from Cheriton to the rally field at Colden [...]
We were quite excited to read in one of the vintage magazines that the Burrell scenic showmans road loco No 3938 ‘Quo Vadis’ was going to steam to the Bill Target rally at Eastleigh pulling a galloper load and as this was another engine that had spent some of its working life with in Petersfield [...]
As we visit many of the Steam related museums around the country we thought it would be good to give people a feel of what we thought of the venues. So our museum review blog will be updated every time we visit a museum. Please make sure you check back regularly or even better use [...]
This weekend, the season finally started for Victoria and her assistants. On Saturday she attended the V.E. day commemorations in Liss, spending the afternoon standing alongside the village community centre providing an impressive backdrop to a great many peoples photographs. Later that evening she was driven to Petersfield in preparation for the next days journey [...]
Well, after a lot of hard graft over the three days of the Bank holiday weekend Victoria is now ready for the rally season. Part of the time has been taken up with a lot of work on our living van, which now has a proper camping battery installed for the lighting and we’ve added [...]