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Beaulieu Steam Revival

Had a fantastic day out there today, couldnt stay all day but had enough time to see all the engines! Not many Steam rally's could attract engines from France, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and all over England. They had nearly an example of most manafactureres of Traction engines including some from America and abroad!

If your thinking about going tomorrow, do it, you wont regret it!

A few of my photos,

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And one of the lads bringing in the load!

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Engines on the load are Fowler "Volunteer" and Robey "Our Nipper", both are a credit to their owners.

Ant pictures of Pride of Worcester powering the fairground ride anyone?

Charlie.

A great show first time visting. Nice to see The Great North in the Wood Cutting area.

I think I‘ve just been to steam heaven!

I think I‘ve just been to steam heaven!

What an amazing event. We had a brilliant day (Saturday), just in the steam areas – no time left for the Motor Museum or other attractions. Great location, excellent facilities – but what made it was the range & variety of exhibits. Not the number of them, (although 60+ in show guide), but the selection. A derelict portable, a highly polished SRL and a taste of everything in between. We were just blown away by the woodland area – was it 6 or 7 working saw benches? Every one different. Worked by crews in period (period-ish :)) dress and loaded by RL crane engine (Fowler, The Great North).

One interesting thing – having visited many rallies over the years – here we saw lots of engines driving round the site, full-size, miniatures, steam cars, light engine and with various trailers – gave a real working feel, to the site. So where were all the JWs in Hi-Vis vests? Didn’t see one all day, except a few first-aiders. Did the world come to an end? No – just a crowd of steam enthusiasts all being sensible. It looked like the event ran itself, so relaxed. Clearly it did not – a lot of people must have worked very hard to achieve this.

The icing on the cake for us was the field foundry – casting the rally plaques I think (not 100% on that). For a £10 donation to charity you got to make up a sand mould and they cast it, while you watched, in iron. That was a souvenir my lad just had to have.

Beaulieu Steam Revival 2011: Totally Brilliant.

Thank you to everyone who had a hand in bringing it together.

Rob S

Another Cracking show,our 2nd year there, a credit to Robert and Jenny Already looking foward to next years show.
And a big well done to Andy Sellwood for winning best exhibit for his Ransomes Portable it was well deserved.

Mark

Is that a 6" Burrell in your first photo?

Matt

Yes Matt, our Devonshire "Fred"