Another year had gone by and our favourite rally was fast approaching. This rally for us is what we would call an old fashion event, lots of room to steam about and not too many restrictions governing where or what you can and can’t do. So, on the morning of Friday 9th September the wagon [...]
2005 was the 31st annual steam show to be held at the Havenstreet steam railway on the Isle of Wight. As always it took place over the August bank holiday weekend and we decided to visit it on the Sunday. The day began with an adventure as we travelled by hovercraft from Southsea front to [...]
Friday, 9th of September was the day that we had planned to steam Victoria to the vintage harvesting weekend at Heyshott, in West Sussex, so a fire was lit at about 8.30 am and steam was raised while we made final preparations for the weekend away. The mornings weather hinted at the approaching autumn but [...]
As you may have read elsewhere on this website, we didn’t attend the Northchapel steam rally with Victoria in August. This was due to the bad weather for the long journey, so we decided against getting Victoria and the drivers wet. On the Sunday, as the weather had cheered up, we decided to jump in [...]
The weekend after we visited Pickering we called in on the Driffield rally which is held on a showground just outside the town, it was just as well that we knew this as there was very little in the way of signposts indicating the route to the event. We eventually found our way onto the [...]