Birdingbury Country Show, (8th - 9th, July 2017)

This is one of a series of pages which I have uploaded to illustrate facets of steam rallies we have attended in the UK. Such events occur all over the country in the summer months, they are easily found by using your favourite search engine and may have anything between a handful of steam engines and hundreds (as at the Great Dorset Steam Fair which could probably be fairly described as having an excess of riches). Click here for the overall index for 2017.

We stumbled on the final Birdingbury Country Show serendipitously through a late posting on the Traction Talk Forum. We were on our way back from a Nottinghamshire weekend double of the Rempstone Steam Rally and the Papplewick Pumping Station and being just of off the Fosse Way in mid-Warwickshire it was almost exactly half way home.

It was always a small village event and when the prime mover Bob Munro sadly died at the end of 2016, it was felt that his boots were too big to fill. Interestingly, although none of the engines was new, only the Allchin had been seen frequently before.

Steam Rollers

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Aveling and Porter	10707/1923	PT 1585	"Pegasus"  Banbury Rally 2017 Picture  Great North Steam Fair 2019 Picture
	Burrell	4012/1925	RL 1254	"Ventongimps" Banbury Rally 2014 Picture  Banbury Rally 2017 Picture  Banbury Rally 2018 Picture

General Engines

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Allchin	1546/1912	AP 9079	"Rebel" Shrewsbury Rally 2013 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2014 Picture  Malpas Rally 2014 Picture  Kettering Fayre 2014 Picture  Hollowell Rally 2015 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2015 Picture  Hollowell Rally 2016 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2016 Picture  Hollowell Rally 2017 Picture  Lincoln Rally 2019 Picture  Kettering Fayre 2021 Picture
	Fowler	8889/1901	WR 6554	Marcle Rally 2016 Picture  Welland Rally 2019 Picture
	Marshall	49222/1908	BE 7797	Hollowell Rally 2017 Picture  Torbay Rally 2018 Picture

Portable Engine

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Clayton and Shuttleworth	50004/1926		Banbury Rally 2017 Picture