Our front cover this month features a scene from the Lancashire Steam Heritage Festival at the Lancashire Mining Museum on May 19th this year, with Fowler roller No. 17071 and the Dibnah Bros’ Aveling roller Betsy. Inside this issue; The…
This month’s cover shows Burrell ‘Gold Medal’ tractor No. 3442 of 1913 at April’s Great War Steam Fair at Beamish in County Durham. Inside, James Hamilton presents a selection of atmospheric black and white pictures from this hugely successful event.…
Work on the Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway’s half-mile extension from Glengonnar Halt to Wanlockhead, has been delayed by poor weather throughout the first quarter of 2018. Now project leader, society chairman, Alan Mackie, has been forced to redesign the drainage…
The marvels of steam will take centre stage as Poole Quay plays host to a bygone era of magnificent miniature steam engines on Saturday 12 May, 10am-5pm. Part of Wave 105 Summertime in the South, the popular festival of miniature traction…
New Build Foster Agricultural Our cover story this month – the remarkable brand new Foster Compound Traction Engine built by Matthew Sheldon in Lincolnshire for John Livesey, who tells Old Glory readers the full story. John Deere Centenary It all…
Inside the action-packed March Issue………. FREE 64-PAGE EVENTS GUIDE IN ALL UK/IRELAND COPIES NEWS 18 pages of News & Events Old Glory’s unique Miniature Steam News section FEATURES INCLUDE…. Engine Sales in 2017 Concluding our overview of what’s been…
Congratulation to the following winners of the Old Glory competition to win tickets to the London Model Engineering Show at Alexandra Palace this month. Your tickets will be in the post. Mr E Haebich Hornchurch, Essex Ian E Colton Crick,…
Rudgwick Steam & Country Show It is with great sadness that we have to announce that we have lost our site at Rudgwick. This is due to continuing disruptive and permitted development allowed by the landowner, which has made it…
THE LAST of the 2016 rallies for Shakespeare Promotions was the Stoke Prior rally, writes Malcolm Ranieri. Seven engines attended, including Terry Gibson’s Fowler Showman’s Road Locomotive No 15652 of 1920 Repulse, while Steve Harbach of Stourbridge took along his…
THE Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust (PNBPT) is to be granted £2.4m in LIBOR funding by the Chancellor for its Memorial Fleet project. The project will create an operational Memorial Fleet of small craft which have played a significant role…