1976 Great Dorset Steam Fair (14) - a photo on Flickriver

1976 Great Dorset Steam Fair (14)

A dip into my archives to find 40-year-old photos of the 1976 Great Dorset Steam Fair which I haven't previously uploaded.

As the 2016 show draws to a close, so it was back in 1976 when at the end of the last successful but muddy day of the show the traction engines were slowly dragged out of the sticky mire to be towed to drier ground for transporting home. Here we see the Fowler B6 showman's engine King Carnival II with a towline attached and a small group of onlookers watching the proceedings.

When I took this photo in September 1976, the Great Dorset Steam Fair was known as The Great Working of Steam Engines. It also wasn't held on the same site as it is now, it was previously held until 1985 at Stourpaine Bushes, not very far from the current site. The show in those days was also a month later being held at the end of September when it was invariably wet and muddy and wellies were usually essential. What hasn't changed is the huge variety of steam and vintage vehicles and other miscellania that attend, the show gets more impressive every year.

There are more photographs of this event in my 1976 GDSF album: www.flickr.com/photos/opobs/albums/72157635414060413

Photograph scanned from a 35mm Fujichrome 100ASA slide. I believe that this 1976 series was taken on my Minolta SRT303 with 50mm f1.8 lens which I usually used only for black and white film.

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Taken on: September 26, 1976

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