Long Melford Vintage Rally

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I thought I would add a few more photos of this event, in addition to those of Mark Vine's roller in the other thread. Very attractive setting in fields overlooking the National Trust property Melford Hall (itself well worth a visit), and with 15 full size steamers present. The weather was surprisingly good yesterday; there had been a lot of rain beforehand and the third photo in the sequence shows the gateway on my arrival at about 10.30am. A number of the engines were unable to get to the rallyfield because of the condition of the gateway so were parked up in the public car park at that point; however, it stayed dry all day, and by the end of the day all engines had managed to get on to the rally site, mostly unaided, as the ground had dried out significantly in that time. Incidentally, the two engines in the photos which do not have number plates displayed are Marshall 40101 of 1903 (with Marshall threshing drum in the second picture) and Aveling Roller 10393 of 1922 (seventh picture).