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.
Singleton Steam Festival
The weekend of the 14th and 15th August we spent at The Singleton Steam festival at The Weald and Downland Museum, Singleton, near Chichester in West Sussex. We spent the weekend playing with the Burrell Showmans engine, Lady Pride of England, we are looking after this year.
We had a good weekend there with lots of other engines and our boys love looking around the museum.
Kingsley Steam Rally
This week's pictures were taken when we attended a local steam rally at Kingsley near Bordon. Hampshire. It was a charity event supporting Macmillan.
We had a fab weekend, the weather was lovely and we had lots of fun with Victoria with lots of steaming around the field.
Leeds Castle, Maidstone. Kent,
Back in April we spent a lovely day at Leeds Castle.
Leeds Castle is set in 500 acres of parkland and dates back to 1119 although a manor house stood on the site from the 9 century. There is so much to see, with the beautiful parkland and gardens, an aviary, a maze which was set up in 1988 and the kids loved it. There is also a golf course in the grounds and another one off is The Dog Collar Musuem which I beleive is the only one that exists.
The Sewards Gathering and Road Run
This is a collection of pictures that were taken at The Sewards of Petersfield Steam and Vintage Gathering and Road Run, which is held in Liss Hampshire. It is run by my husband Lloyd, our friend Kevin and myself. This is the 5th one we've held and was the biggest and best yet, with 8 full size traction engines and loads of other vehicles on site it was an event not to be missed.
Some of these pictures were taken by Kevin Lockyer so you will see a KL at the end of each blurb...
Romney, Hythe, Dimchurch Railway and Dover Castle
This is a collection of photos taken back in April on our hoilday in Kent.
Sorry for the lack of photos for the last few weeks but I have been busy with other things but hopefully now I will but updating my site regularly again. Enjoy this weeks photos...
Beaulieu Steam Festival
This weeks pictures are from a trip we had to Beaulieu Motor Museum in the New Forest where they were having their first Steam Festival. It was a lovely setting and the weather was good, a good way to spend a Saturday...