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These chips are the kind of wholesome and delicious chips which can be bought at all good steam fairs with chip vans (while stocks last). |
Annual Guide to UK STEAM FAIRS 2011/12 |
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(Latest Update 28th January) |
- www.steamfair.co.uk |
This guide to UK Steam Fairs brought
to you since 1997 (with enormous effort and inconvenience) by Melvyn
Wright
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Private message for Steam Fair
organisers:
Entries for 2012 are now being accepted - please
email your
details
(If you are not an organiser, you must not read the above
private message. If you have accidentally read it, please report to
the local police station immediately and tell them what you've
done)
Here is a list of forthcoming events where organs may be playing, and traction engines may be driving round and round a muddy field in circles. There may also be other attractive attractions like barn engines pumping water from one bucket into another (with flowers painted on them), old-fashioned lorries and cars parked in a field, and rusty old iron and scrap motor parts for sale.
Despite my humourous approach (or because of it) this is the best rally guide on the Net, this side of Christmas. See below for how good it is. Forget the other boring stuffy old guides (if there are any) this site gets more hits than the Top Ten Singles Charts (which is not difficult) and is updated in a rippling and vigorous fashion. If you want your event listing in steamfair.co.uk just email me. I also provide free links to your web site and email address (I know, it's unbelievable) and what's more - I do not charge anything for these free links. Please mention if your event has a chip van. Events with chip vans are given priority listings in bold red letters to ensure maximum publicity for your event and to maximise your chip van investment. As can be appreciated, a steam fair without a chip van is like a monkey without a hat (or even worse). Please do not pretend that your event has a chip van if it hasn't. Chip van fraud is a very serious crime and will be reported to a policeman with big boots.
This information is provided in good faith - but I can't help it if events take place on the wrong date or were never even planned in the first place. Before travelling to any event, please look out of the window to check whether it is raining or not. If you are driving on the roads, please look out of the front window and try not to bump into traction engines, or get run over by steam rollers. Take some money with you to get in, in case you can't find a gap in the hedge. If travelling overseas, make sure you take a boat or a plane with you. On arrival make sure you find out where the chip van is, in case of emergency, and if you can't find a chip van complain to the organisers and ask for your money back. Remember to go home again when the event has finished.
Photograph of chips These real chips came from here |
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These chips are the kind of wholesome and delicious chips which can be bought at all good steam fairs with chip vans (while stocks last). |
Important: Whenever possible, please support events with chip vans as these have been specially provided by the organisers for your entertainment and pleasure. Do not drink beer at steam fairs, otherwise you will be asked to leave, and escorted from the field. For safety's sake, do not attend steam fairs with beer tents, in case people are p*ssed-up and driving steam rollers. I cannot stress this too highly (even though I have tried on numerous occasions).
Before setting off for an event, always check
the calender on the wall. If you subtract the date on the calendar
from the date of the event, and get a minus number - this means that you've
missed it.
(Minus numbers are those with a hyphen on the left-hand
side)
Congratulations
UPDATED for
2010
The prize for the longest rally title (sponsored by Steamfair.co.uk) was won in 2010 by Bournemouth & Poole Preservation Club, with their entry: "Bournemouth And Poole Preservation Club Ltd. Vintage And Classic Vehicle Annual Road Run Starting From Hamworthy Social Club Driving Around Hants And Dorset On A Route For Approximately 65 Miles With A Coffee Stop Half Way At Compton Abbas Airfield And Assembling Again At Honeybrook Farm Near Wimbourne For Late Lunch Presentations And A Raffle." see full results tables for the last 14 years (blimey is it that long since I've been cobbling this site together?)
Entries for the 2011 competition now being accepted
In order to save wear and tear on my fingers (caused by typing the same headings over and over and over again) the following abbreviations are used in this list:
| & | And | Ga | Gala | Rd | Ribbed | TER | Traction Engine Rally |
| A | Annual | Gg | Gathering | R | Rally | The | The |
| C | Country | Gr | Organ Grind | S | Steam | Trans | Transport |
| E | Engine | H | Historic | SER | Steam Engine Rally | V | Vintage |
| Ex | Extravaganza | I | International | Sh | Show | Ve | Vehicle |
| F | Fair / Fayre | M | Molecule | Soc | Society | W | Weekend |
| Fes | Festival | N | Nudist | Sp | Spectacular | Wg | Working |
| G | Globular | O | Organ | St | Street | space for expansion |
Hint: If you are interested in organs (and who isn't?) then just look
for abbreviations with an O in them.
(Further information about abbreviations can be found at the back of most
dictionaries)
Although it's difficult to believe, some dumbos who email me actually think that I organise every one of these 500+ events myself; even though the organisers are often named below, up to 20 events can take place on the same day, and the words "Annual Guide to UK Steam Fairs" appears at the top of the page in letters 3 feet tall. I suppose these same people think that I'm also responsible for the FA Cup Final, and the Miss World competition. If you have an IQ of less than minus 12, and you wish to exhibit at a steam fair, please don't ask me if you can come to any of my events or whether I can send details of all of my steam fairs. If you contact the organiser of the event directly, you are less likely to get a reply with rude words in it.
2010 EVENTS |
2nd and 3rd January 2010
10th January 2010 |
7th February 2010
14th February 2010 |
27th March 2010 |
2nd to 5th April 2010
17th and 18th April 2010
24th and 25th April 2010 |
1st to 3rd May 2010
8th and 9th May 2010
22nd and 23rd May 2010
29th to 31st May 2010 |
5th and 6th June 2010
12th and 13th June
2010
19th and 20th June 2010
25th to 27th June 2010 |
3rd and 4th July
2010
10th and 11th July 2010
16th to 18th July
2010
23rd to 25th July 2010
31st July and 1st August
2010 |
8th August 2010
13th to 15th August 2010
20th to 22nd August 2010
28th to 30th August 2010 |
11th and 12th September 2010
18th and 19th September 2010
25th and 26th September 2010 |
9th and 10th October 2010 |
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5th December 2010
24th December 2010 |
2011 EVENTS |
16th January 2011 |
27th February 2011 |
20th March 2011 |
17th April 2011
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8th May 2011
15th May 2011
28th to 30th May
2011 |
4th and 5th June 2011
11th and 12th June 2011
18th and 19th June 2011
25th and 26th June
2011 |
16th and 17th July 2011
16th and 17th July 2011
23rd and 24th July 2011
30th and 31st July 2011 |
4th to 7th August 2011
13th and 14th August 2011
20th and 21st August 2011
27th to 29th August 2011
31st to 4th September 2011 |
9th to 11th September 2011
17th and 18th September 2011
24th and 25th September 2011 |
8th and 9th October 2011
8th and 9th October 2011
15th October 2011
23rd October 2011 |
November 2011 has been cancelled. If you were expecting a birthday this month, please contact the Central Office of Misinformation for a refund. |
24th December 2010 |
2012 EVENTS (Secret
Preview) |
| 4th to 7th May 2012 ABBEY HILL STEAM RALLY, Yeovil Showground, Dorchester Road, Yeovil, Somerset. web site email Steam engines, classic cars, vinatge tractors, commercial vehicless, etc. Chip Van Paradise
19th and 20th May 2012
25th to 27th May 2012
9th and 10th June
2012
16th and 17th June 2012
23rd and 24th June 2012
30th June and 1st July
2012
14th and 15th July
2012
28th and 29th July 2012
17th to 19th August 2012
25th to 27th August 2012
8th and 9th September 2012 |
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Visit my Cyber-Steam - the Internet Steam
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