After lunch a drive of ten miles to see the steam threshing fair.
This event was held in a large grass field where various steam-powered farming machines were operating. Also brightly painted steam engines, traction engines and a variety of huge steam-powered fairground organs belting out a succession of tunes (Lambeth Walk, Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner, Burlington Bertie).
A row of vintage motor cars (not the sort of of highly-polished exhibits one sees in collections, these were tatty and falling to pieces and looked as if they has just been wheeled out of someone's barn where they had been kept for the last eighty years).
Around the field were tents and marquees and stalls - refreshments; rare livestock (goats, ponies, poultry); rural crafts. Displays of what can only be called old junk. A table heaped with mouldy old books including Britain's Glorious Navy published in 1940.
In an area scattered with rusty old farm tools (billhooks, riddles, buckets) I found some horse brasses with ancient designs and symbols.
A stall selling a succulent plant that is supposed to ward off lightning if grown on a roof (a ridiculous superstition).
This event was held in a large grass field where various steam-powered farming machines were operating. Also brightly painted steam engines, traction engines and a variety of huge steam-powered fairground organs belting out a succession of tunes (Lambeth Walk, Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner, Burlington Bertie).
A row of vintage motor cars (not the sort of of highly-polished exhibits one sees in collections, these were tatty and falling to pieces and looked as if they has just been wheeled out of someone's barn where they had been kept for the last eighty years).
Around the field were tents and marquees and stalls - refreshments; rare livestock (goats, ponies, poultry); rural crafts. Displays of what can only be called old junk. A table heaped with mouldy old books including Britain's Glorious Navy published in 1940.
In an area scattered with rusty old farm tools (billhooks, riddles, buckets) I found some horse brasses with ancient designs and symbols.
A stall selling a succulent plant that is supposed to ward off lightning if grown on a roof (a ridiculous superstition).
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