Proper Vintage - Exploring the past at Stotfold Steam Fair

avatar

Read this post on TravelFeed.io for the best experience



Sometimes you need to pause your 21st Century life, stop for a moment and consider what once was. Life used to be very different before we had the Internet, before computers, before colour TV's.

Stotfold Mill is a working water mill in Stotfold, Bedfordshire. It's surrounded by farmland, and a lovely part of England. Every year they have a Steam Weekend, in which engineering enthusiasts come together to show there prized collections.

I have to confess, I quite like visiting heritage steam railways, it's been something I've liked since I was a child. This is like a farming version. It's a celebration of what used to be, how we used to farm, how we used to live. There's demonstrations of hay cutting techniques using vintage machinery. There's wood cutting demonstrations using steam engines to power saws.

If you like sheep, there's a sheep shearing demonstration. It was surprisingly entertaining I have to admit! There's also a bar where you can enjoy a pint or two of local cider. Very refreshing...

In the UK, people are very much into looking backwards at the moment, with vintage style at the fore. It's all very much fashion focussed, all about the image. The people that come to an event like this though are still interested in vitage, but in a different way. It's not about looking like you've walked out of a 1950's hair salon, it's about touching, feeling, and smelling something that used to be real life. It's something very raw, very oily and dirty. It feels real.


View this post on TravelFeed for the best experience.


0
0
0.000
5 comments
avatar

Congratulations, your post has been added to Pinmapple! 🎉🥳🍍

Did you know you have your own profile map?
And every post has their own map too!

Want to have your post on the map too?

  • Go to Pinmapple
  • Click the get code button
  • Click on the map where your post should be (zoom in if needed)
  • Copy and paste the generated code in your post (Hive only)
  • Congrats, your post is now on the map!

0
0
0.000
avatar

Hiya, @LivingUKTaiwan here, just swinging by to let you know that this post made it into our Honorable Mentions in Daily Travel Digest #1169.

Your post has been manually curated by the @pinmapple team. If you like what we're doing, please drop by to check out all the rest of today's great posts and consider supporting other authors like yourself and us so we can keep the project going!

Become part of our travel community:

0
0
0.000
avatar

Congratulations @grizzle! You received the biggest smile and some love from TravelFeed! Keep up the amazing blog. 😍

Thanks for using TravelFeed!
@smeralda (TravelFeed team)

PS: TravelFeed is in social media to reach more people, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

0
0
0.000
avatar

Congratulations @grizzle! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

You distributed more than 74000 upvotes.
Your next target is to reach 75000 upvotes.

You can view your badges on your board and compare yourself to others in the Ranking
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word STOP

Support the HiveBuzz project. Vote for our proposal!
0
0
0.000
avatar

I've only just seen this. Stotfold Mill is just a couple of miles from me. The steam fair is a big local event. We also get a load of steam engines descending on a local pub around Xmas.

0
0
0.000