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Innishannon Steam and Vintage Rally – 05/06/2016

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The annual Innishannon steam and vintage rally took place on the June Bank holiday weekend at the 38 acre venue outside Innishannon village. This annual event has been built up over the last 45 years. The rally has been running successfully since 1998 with all proceeds from the event going to the Irish Cancer Society. The rally was originally created to promote heritage machinery of all classes at work and to provide a suitable venue for vintage enthusiasts to display their machines as well as allowing the general public to view. The exhibits included huge tractors, threshers, unique cars, oil and steam engines.

Innishannon EUpton-7The event commenced with a parade of various vintage steam engines and old harvest machinery. At the end of the parade, 6 of the engines who participated in the event 46 years ago lined up for the public and photographers to take shots of these masterful machines from yesteryear. In addition to the various vintage club displays, there was also a slow Steam engine and slow tractor race as well as a motor cycle display.

With the weather staying dry and sunny, this was a fun event for collectors, enthusiasts, visitors and of course ECCG to view and photograph rare agricultural and mechanical treasures from the past.

Click here to see a gallery of images from this shoot. Enjoy!

 –  Noelle Lowney

Innishannon Steam and Vintage Rally – 31/05/15

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On Sunday last, members of the Group gathered at the Inishannon Steam and Vintage Rally, held in aid of The Irish Cancer Society.

We were very lucky with the weather, and some of us even got  a bit sun burnt!

Steam Rally Jim Curtin-8There was a huge array of steam engines, vintage cars, trucks, fire engines and many of the steam engines were powering other machines, stone crushing, wood cutting saws, grinding barley and milling wheat etc.

The site covers  40 acres and it was well able to cater for  the  1,000 plus  number of exhibits.

One novel event was ploughing  a field using a steam engine parked at the top of the field, pulling  a plough the length of the field by a steel cable, attached to a horizontal  drum under the steam engine. Hard work ploughing in those days!

We found the engine operators very accommodating for us photographers and were only too willing to show off their well-polished machines.

More members intended to travel on bank holiday Monday, but the extremely bad weather put paid to that idea unfortunately.

Click here to access the gallery from this shoot. Enjoy!

– Kevin Day