Steam in MINIATURE Percy’s Pride

Normally we attend between 10-12 events a year, mainly in the north of the country, with our 4in scale Burrell SC Percy’s Pride, but Covid-19 has put paid to that so the engine, having been “put to bed” in October 2019, remains sheeted and locked away, awaiting it’s next hydraulic and steam test, which was actually due to be done just before the first lockdown was announced.

My interest in steam began many years ago, most probably at a Pickering Traction Engine Rally around 1962 when I went with Mum and Dad as visitors. My father was very interested in steam, having once worked in a small foundry, he also crewed for the late John Conner of Charleston near Bridlington, East Yorkshire with 19783 Fowler B6 showman’s road loco King Carnival II, at both local rallies and the early Stourpaine Bushes events in the 1980s. More latterly he assisted Mike Middlewood & Sons from Great Kelk in East Yorkshire with steam ploughing and dragging using their 16nhp Fowler ploughing engines Ward and Dale.

I recall