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lutonlagerlout
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Post: # 118298Post lutonlagerlout

brilliant Dave! like a somerset answer to Fred Dibnah :)
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Post: # 118300Post Bob_A

Beautiful machines :)
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Post: # 118301Post Dave_L

lutonlagerlout wrote:brilliant Dave! like a somerset answer to Fred Dibnah :)
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Post: # 118302Post wario

Not a bad person to be likened to :)
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Post: # 118303Post Dave_L

wario wrote:Not a bad person to be likened to :)
No, I think quite the same, what a man! When men were men! :)
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Post: # 118315Post Tony McC

There's a big steam fair down your way, isn't there....well, in Dorset. I got stick in seemingly endless traffic for it a couple of years back when I was down there. I suppose all that will be cancelled this year. :(

We have summat similar about 20 miles or so from here at a place called Kelsall - they show motorbikes, too - and it's amazing to see just how much interest there still is for all things steam.

Somewhere, deep in the bowels of the Brew Cabin, is the tale of what happened when Fred Dibnah rolled up with his traction engine at my brother-in-law's weddding and drank us all under t'table!
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Post: # 118332Post Dave_L

Hi Tony - Yes, the Great Dorset Steam Fair, biggest steam fair in the UK if not Europe, personally not a fan of these huge events, much prefer the smaller ones.
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DNgroundworks
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Post: # 118491Post DNgroundworks

Dave L - Do you ever get up to Chipping Steam Fair in Lancashire? I live a mile from the show ground.
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Post: # 118514Post Tony McC

There's a pub in the centre of Chipping that did/does the best steak baguette I have ever tasted. Buggered if I can recall the name, but I could walk you to it now, and I haven't been for about 5 years. It was run by an Irish lad...or, at least, a bloke from an Irish family, and he always liked to have the craic whenever we went in.

I'm putting that on my To Do whiteboard for as soon as all this nonsense is over. Between that pub in Chipping and the Black Pudding Fritter with Poached Egg at the Eddisford Bridge Arms near Clitheroe, a man might never go home to eat! And sod the Inn at Whitewell!
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Post: # 118516Post DNgroundworks

Haha yes, sod the Inn at Whitewell. The pub you mention is the Tillitsons, and the bloke would be 'Curly', no longer the landlord these days.
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