Dingles Fairground Weekend 2012
 

The steam attendees 30/09/12, by Team Loxley
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ooops, just noticed on preview that it looks like JW has fitted an extended blast pipe to the Mac !!

I certainly can't improve upon those Late Western, but all mine are here too for a more general view: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=391737e06a

Well it seems like sharing your albums from facebook is now very hit and miss, so for those on facebook try this https://www.facebook.com/steve.cockr...5498931&type=1

link not working for me....why not just post them here?

i'll post some when i get home, but there are quite a few!

Thanks Ian. Glad that I didn't go at £25 admission for the family plus petrol, this would have been an expensive day out especially as the Kivells engines were not on show.

ok, so here are a few of mine. Please forgive the non-steam ones!

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Tom, not only did you miss the "Kivells" engines, you also missed retired ex Laira Locomotive Engineer par excellance Mr Keith Netherton! ......

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Given my experience of places to visit down this way I would have to dissagree that Dingles is an expensive day out. £20 for a family of 2 adults and 2 children if bought online in advance.
Compare that to the circus that is traveling the south west at the moment that my eldest daughter was desperate to go and see - HERE
That would works out at cheapest seats £48 and most exensive £76 for an hour and a half show. Needless to say eldest daughter was taken to Dingles instead and had much more fun riding the dodgems and learning to drive a Burrell showmans engine while generating for the skid instead.

Don't Dingles do that thing where your admission is valid for the rest of the year - that's what we did when we went and visited twice during 2011.

The Fairground Heritage Centre is operated by the Fairground Heritage Trust, registered charity no. 293579.
On arrival at the museum you will be given a Gift Aid declaration. If you’re a UK taxpayer and are willing to complete this declaration, we can offer you a year’s admission free in return.

Final note on this event:

These events have been pithched as Fairground weekends up till now as the museum's main focus has not always been Fairground Heritage.
As the Fairground Heritage Trust has evolved and continued to grow the main focus of the museum is now almost exclusively based around fairground heritage - so to have a fairground weekend has become something of a strage thing to do.

So as of next year there will be 2 Steam Weekends at Dingles. One at Easter and one in the Autumn.
We'll be looking to bring in as much steam as we can fit into the area available to us and continue to have the showmans engines generating for the rides during the events.
Work is afoot to have one and maybe more rather special engines attending the Easter Steam Weekend 2013.

Special? A fowler or 2?

Aha! I suspect I know what this is! I hope it all runs smooth & the other engines in question do visit! Be good to see and if it does work out that my suspicion is correct, I will certainly be making the trip down.

Jake, I doubt they'll be Fowlers!

You are most welcome to bring one if the mood takes you :)

I have to say that I find it good value for a family but also the cafe is excellent. As I live so far away, when I am in Cornwall on holiday I will make the effort to stop off for lunch on the way back to Lancashire. Much better than stopping at the services and goes to a good cause. It is only a couple of minutes form the A30 and I can get the twin axle caravan on the carpark. I stopped off on the way back from Royal Cornwall Show with the Steam Yachts back in June and had lucnh plus had a quick ride on the Skid to mix it up for the journey home.

I wish I was closer I would pop in more often.

Brian

Thirded, or fouthed. We always stop there on the way back from Cornwall, Better food than a service station for a start and well worth the entry fee. also a very good book shop.

Getting cryptic Dan, it'll be the other one then ;-)

If you are a working person it is not too bad. If you are like my wife and myself with a mortgage and two teenagers living with us who are not our own coupled to the fact that both my wife and myself cannot work due to us both being disabled, it becomes an expensive exercise. I wish I could have the luxury of being able to go to work, but as your father who I met at Stithians will testify, i can only get around with a wheeled walker because I have osteo-arthritis in my knees, spine and neck and getting around is problematical and it is getting progressively worse. That is why I am involved with the Robey Trust as a active volunteer as I help with the admin and I can do a lot of work from home. When I do go to the Works at Tavistock I am found jobs which I am able to do bearing in mind my disability. The Robey Trust is absolutely brilliant and they give me the opportunity to enjoy my hobby - they even have a toilet for the disabled in the Works! Because the Trust is a Charity, I can do unpaid voluntary work there without affecting my benefits as long as I keep the DWP informed.

Completely understand and appreciate your situation - I was just disagreeing with the inferrence that Dingles is an expensive place to visit and I'll stand by that.
£20 for a family of 4 with a gift aid form filled out and you get 12 months unlimited entry including all of the special events. It's just not possible to get anything more affordable than that for an attraction that has to fund itself.