Traction-Talk - St Albans Steam & Country Show 9th & 10th June 2012

St. Albans Steam & Country Show
9th & 10th June 2012
Oaklands College (Smallford Campus), St. Albans. www.maps.google.co.uk

A1057 Hatfield Road, St. Albans on Bus Routes 300, 301 & 724
Approx. SAT NAV AL4 0XR
Steam Engines
Vintage Vehicles, Tractors
Stationary Engines
Classic Cars, Bikes & Lorries
Bygones, Craft Tent
Fairground & Fair Organs
Working Models, Trade Stalls
Refreshments and Bar

Opens
10.00a.m.

Steam Engine Parade
2.00p.m.

£6 Adults
£3 Children
£5 Senior Citizens
£15 Family Ticket (2 adults + 2 children)

A full day's entertainment will be available for everyone. In addition to the old engines and farm equipment there will be stalls, a fairground and refreshments including a licensed bar.
Demonstrations will be set up to show how the old equipment was used in days gone by. A working sawbench, threshing machine, stone crusher and other machinery will be at work.
Ring events and parades will enable all the mobile exhibits to be moved on the field (if weather conditions allow).For youngsters these steaming monsters provide both entertainment and education, a total contrast with the high-tec era of the new millennium we now live in. However, many of the older generation will remember steam rollers at work, while before the last world war steam wagons regularly pounded through St. Albans carrying long distance loads. Steam threshing was carried out at local farms, while steam tractors were used to carry stone, farm produce and even house contents within the area. Some of these machines are now 100 years old, but have been rebuilt many times and will last forever!
The smell of steam and excitement of raw steam power which helped to get Britain's haulage and agriculture where it is today. Also a variety of trade stands to look around and some fairground rides, and a variety of vintage vehicles such as lorries, cars and tractors.

The Herts Steam Club Ltd runs our annual steam show on behalf of the society to bring steam and vintage vehicles to the general public and provide an educational function.

So why not take a day out and visit the Hertfordshire Steam Engine Preservation Societies annual show.

This event will be held in the grounds of Oaklands College, on the A1057 Hatfield Road, St. Albans,
(Approx Satnav code AL4 0JA) and is only three miles from Junction 3 of the A1(M) motorway. There are frequent bus services (routes 300, 301, 724) from Hatfield or St. Albans railway stations which pass the site.