National Ploughing Championships 2017

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Not a steam event, but the Steam Plough Club were asked to field a couple of sets of steam tackle down in Somerset this weekend for this years National Ploughing Championships. The net result was 5 engines and two implements and a thoroughly enjoyable weekend. Big thank you to Dick Eastwood, Alan Sparkes, Julie Chick and Mike Beebey who orchestrated the steam demo. Apologies to Brian, I didn't seem to get a picture of Princess Mary in all the excitement.




There was a bit of a reunion for two of the engines which had not been together since they lay derelict at Binton in the old railway yard when in the ownership of Bomford and Carr. They were in fact a B & C pair and were used together on a number of jobs including Grimwith Resevoir and Gledhow Park in their birth town, Fowlers 15222 and 15529



Some other shots of the frivolities including the start of the construction of a Neolithic stone ring by the Sparkes team - it did make the plough leap in the air a bit!



And finally, Lizzie giving it the "I can see something you can't" ploughing engine driver stance.