This Year's Show - The 40th Anniversary

If you are looking for a fascinating and nostalgic family day out, look no further than the Weeting Steam Engine Rally and Country Show. The Weeting Steam Engine Rally is sure to appeal to the whole family.
This year, to help us celebrate 40 years, we expect to have some of the original engines from the first Weeting Rally steaming around the showground. We also hope to have a 'Harvesting through the ages' display to take you back to the nostalgic days of the sickle and the scythe right up to the state of the art modern combines of today.
There are parades of steam traction engines and steam lorries, vintage tractors and fire engines. Working steam powered farmyard machines, a full sized steam train on rails, a model steam train (which takes passengers round a rack) and small steam models including boats on a pond. There are static displays of vintage cars, motorbikes and military vehicles.
There are demonstrations of steam ploughing, which uses two traction engines at either end of the field pulling a plough by cable backwards and forwards over the ground, steam threshing of corn, again using a traction engine as its power source, steam powered sawmill and stone crushing and farmyard implements of a bygone era. Ploughing and cultivating demonstrations using vintage tractors and horses will be taking place throughout the weekend.
The Snakewood Dog Agility Team will give regular demonstrations in their own separate arena and are a great attraction. The team will also perform a fun and fast 'knock out competition' in the main arena each day.
The Community Tent will house a number of museums and local organisations who host displays and interactive amusements for our visitors. There will also be a craft marquee and of course many trade stands to wander around at your leisure.
Our helicopter flights have proved to be popular way to get a birds-eye view of the whole show and some of the surrounding area. We also have old time fairground rides as well as new rides, bouncy castles, mini quad bikes and many other bits and pieces to keep each member of the family entertained.
We have two bars on the showground which are open to 11pm on Friday and Suturday night and 5pm on Sunday. 'Dr Busker' makes a welcome return to the rally this year and will be your Friday night entertainment in the main bar. The Burrell Restaurant will be open all day and evening and we also book a number of catering stands, which are dotted around the showground, for less formal meals and snacks.

 

Weeting Steam Engine Rally & Country Show, Fengate Farm, Weeting, IP27 0QF
Tel: 01842 810317 Email: weeting-rally@btconnect.com