Rather than used loads of time transferring the original Picture Library from the old website to this new one, we’ve left the old Picture Library running. So you can still access it using the following link: Steam Engine Image Library As this new site grows we’ll be adding more images and photos directly to the [...]
Christmas has been and gone and the new year has past. It’s time to start looking at the rally season for 2009. It’s time to send in your entry form for the 2009 Sewards of Petersfield Steam and Vintage Vehicle Gathering and Road Run held at the Spread Eagle Public House, Liss, Hampshire. The dates [...]
We currently have more than 80 exhibits confirmed for this years Sewards of Petersfield Steam and Vintage Vehicle Gathering and Road Run. The entries cover Steam engines both full size and miniature, classic and vintage cars, classic commercials, motorcycles, stationary engines, displays, models and lots more. Liss Band are confirmed to play on Sunday afternoon [...]
The winter months are now upon us, which means it’s time to start planning the 2008 Sewards of Petersfield Steam and Vintage Vehicle Gathering and Road Run. Before we get into any details about the 2008 event, we would like to say a huge thank-you to all the exhibitors and visitors who helped support this [...]
As the new season draws nearer we always ask the same question “when are we going to paint the living wagon?” This year was no exception. The wagon has suffered from the weather, the sun cooking it in the summer and the rain in the winter and the back off it and one side was [...]
Our plans for this years Steam and Vintage Vehicle Gathering and Road Run, to be held on the 14th anf 15th July are now gathering speed. With news in the local paper that the Liss Carnival will not be run this year, and out cries from local charities who use the carnival to raise a [...]
Back in November 2005 we were asked if we could take Victoria up to our village infants school. Our youngest son Harry, who is a pupil there, was very keen to take HIS traction engine to his school to show all his friends and teachers. They were studying different modes of transport and as the [...]
Our village carnival this year was on June 10th and as always we had been asked to attend with Victoria. This is an event that has been going for years and most of the villagers seem to join in, but this year was a bit different there was the England World Cup game on, so [...]
The Bank Holiday weekend at the end of May was once again a trip to a local event in Petersfield. It’s now in its 13th year and as always there was a good selection of things to see. The owner of the farmyard opens up his gates and for a small entry fee, which goes [...]
While at Liss Carnival on the 10th June one of the members of the Double ‘LL’ Club, of which we are also members, handed us a picture of a Traction Engine that had been taken around the early 1900s at a brickworks in Petersfield. When we looked at the engine we recognised it immediately as [...]