Welcome to Steam and Country Cam
On this web site you'll find photographs taken as I visit different areas of the United Kingdom when on holiday or away with our Steam Traction Engine Victoria Empress of India. The photographs are by no means professional images, but hopefully you will enjoy them as much as I enjoy taking them. I would by very interested to hear your comments, please sign my guestbook.
Thanks for looking,
Wendy Wakelin
Below are the latest collections of photos taken. Click the name of the collection to view all the related photos.
Didcot Railway Centre
Over the christmas break we decided to visit The Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfordshire. We had never been before and upon our arrival we were pleasently surprised. The car park was quite busy and we had to queue for a few minutes to get in and it was a very cold December morning.
They had a couple of full size locos in steam ready for us to have a ride on and lots of locos, wagons and carriages of all types to walk around and admire.
All in all we had a good day, with a few rides on each of the trains so we could warm up in the carriages. You could ride on the trains as many times as you liked. It's well worth a visit...
Walks in the snow
This weeks photos were taken on my walks with my dog around our village of Liss, Hampshire.
A few photos from back in September
This small collection of photos were taken back in September, firstly some of our local common in Liss Forest, Hampshire and a visit to The Championship for horse ploughing.
Ypres, Liss and Dad's day
This collection of photos are from the last few weeks and are all to do with remembrance of the wars of past and present. The first few photos are from our day trip to Ypres in Belgium to see the trenches and Cemeteries from World War 1.
There are also photos from The Remembrance parade in our local village of Liss in Hampshire that took place on the 9th of November.
Finally some of you regulars may have notice that my site hasn’t been updated for a few weeks. This is because a few weeks ago my Dad passed away. As a small tribute to him there are a few pictures of his final journey and resting place.
Autumn show Singleton
This group of photos I took while we were at The Autumn Countryside Show which is held at The Weald and Downland Museum at Singleton near Chichester, West Sussex.
It's a great show with all things country and more to look at. We were there with our traction engine "Victoria" driving the museum's 1862 Threshing drum.
For more information visit The Weald and Downland Museum
Playing on the beach
This weeks photos were taken back at the beginning of August while we were on holiday on the North coast of the Devon/Cornwall.
This was a few miles down the coast from Hartland Quay which we visited on the same day. For photos of this checkout my Hartland Quay page.