For example, the steam roller on the left was build over 100 years ago, has been painstakingly restored by a steam fanatic and was most probably driven along the A roads to get here at slightly above walking pace.
Below left is a steam engine built in 1902. It started life as a mobile generator for a showman (i.e. to run a motion picture show). Later in life it powered a dodgem car ride (original call speed rides). But it could also drive -- at up to 18 miles per hour on a flat road. Below right you can see a miniature -- some of these are tougher than they look and one guy even claimed he could tow a car with one.
We started our day by strolling around the steam engines, unwittingly missing the miniature steam parade. Katy got to sit on one of the miniatures while it was puffing away, and they even had a glider which Ella climbed into and pretended to fly.
Then, we found the funfair. Katy selected the jumping castle with Sophie (below left) while Ella & Emma both went up the massive slide (you can just see Emma emerging from the bottom of the slide, and Ella half way down). Then the played hook-a-duck and we decided it was time to sit in the shade for lunch.
It was un-Englishly hot, so Robin & I decided we needed some refreshment from the beer tent (there was some local beer festival) over lunch. And, finally, probably the highlight of the day for me, was a fly past by a Lancaster bomber, a hurricane and a spitfire.
The afternoon and early evening was spent at Robin and Jo's house. The paddling pool emerged and all 4 girls played happily until it was time to escape. A very relaxing way to spend the last Saturday of our UK visit.
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That explains the Lancaster that we saw fly over as we were driving up the M3 last weekend!
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