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Originally Posted by Steamhead21
Many thanks for sharing photographs did not even now of this event.
May attend next year as I live near Durham City.
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Houghton Feast is an ancient festival which has been going on since the 12th century. I have been going to see it fairly regularly for around 50 years. It has been one of the regular haunts of White Bros Mammoth Gavioli Organ for over 50 years and stays and plays for 2 days. The Feast lasts several days every October and includes an evening Hog Roast. The traction engines take part in a grand parade on the Saturday afternoon, which includes a local Scottish Pipe Band, sometimes a brass band, plus colliery lodge banners, dancers, scouts, vintage vehicles, decorated floats on the backs of wagons, sometimes Juvenile Jazz Bands & the local territorial Army. There also a funfair with several shows in attendance.