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Title: Carters steam fair
Post by: Asmith61 on June 04, 2022, 04:21:26 PM

As I can now manage to get in to the car, and get pushed about in the wheelchair we went to our local town to see the Carters steam fair, which was really amazing to see everything is immaculately hand painted & Signwritten, I was talking to the chap who was running the steam carousel and he was telling me this year is the final tour as they are putting everything up for sale and he added if a buyer isn’t found by march 2023 they will split the fair up and offer single items, which would be a crying shame !!
You can imagine the hard work that goes in to running a fair of this kind for 7 months of the year, he was telling me that there are 6 staff full time over the winter keeping the whole rides etc in the immaculate condition, carters steam fair has appeared in midsomer murders & Wurzel Gumage, let’s hope they find a buyer to keep this wonderful steam fair going.

Title: Re: Carters steam fair
Post by: Asmith61 on June 04, 2022, 04:24:08 PM

More pics

Title: Re: Carters steam fair
Post by: MadisonMotorsportUK on June 04, 2022, 11:49:10 PM

Nice.

Although I'm surprised the eco-mentalists ( :wnk: ) haven't run them out of town

Title: Re: Carters steam fair
Post by: Asmith61 on June 05, 2022, 01:29:40 PM

 lol yes I know what you mean.

Title: Re: Carters steam fair
Post by: Mick B on June 05, 2022, 03:06:57 PM

 :thumb:

Title: Re: Carters steam fair
Post by: NorthumBryan on June 05, 2022, 06:04:56 PM

Fabulous pics, they don't make 'em like that anymore  :thumb:

Title: Re: Carters steam fair
Post by: Asmith61 on June 05, 2022, 06:21:49 PM

No your are right they don’t 😠 it was the smell of the steam engines that was great and the stokers who were covered in coal dust and soot  lol

Title: Re: Carters steam fair
Post by: NorthumBryan on June 05, 2022, 10:29:42 PM

The thing is, and it's easy to forget, that was cutting edge technology at the time. They were the EV's of the day, people with horses would be looking at them thinking 'that'll not catch on'...

Great stuff and I love to see old machinery like that still working and still enthralling people  :thumb:

Title: Re: Carters steam fair
Post by: MadisonMotorsportUK on June 06, 2022, 09:15:48 PM

It's the intricacy of design that attracts me, and the fact that everything was hand made by an artisan. No-one today could do that.

Title: Re: Carters steam fair
Post by: Asmith61 on June 07, 2022, 02:07:27 PM

No you are both right there, sadly there are many things that are going to be lost for ever as the youth of today seem to be more interested in the Xboxes and there phones etc.
Bloody hell I must be getting old  :old:

Title: Re: Carters steam fair
Post by: NorthumBryan on June 07, 2022, 08:10:43 PM

 lol lol lol

Nothing like a good grumble on  :thumb:

Title: Re: Carters steam fair
Post by: andy21aa on June 08, 2022, 07:30:02 PM

The people who built these were passionate, worked hard and were proud of what they made.
I'm sure they were a lot happier than a vast majority of people are today.

Title: Re: Carters steam fair
Post by: Asmith61 on June 08, 2022, 09:31:37 PM

Yes you are definitely right there, they were real craftsman in them days  :thumb: