Great Northern Road Run
A convoy of up to twenty coal-fired steam engines rolls through Tyrone on a summer Friday, filling Hotel Rue car park in Omagh with hissing steel and live music in one of Northern Ireland's most spectacular and unusual public spectacles.
Omagh is a busy county town with a genuine heart - the twin-spired Sacred Heart Church alone earns a stop, and the river, the market, and the Ulster American Folk Park nearby give a visitor enough to fill half a satisfying day.
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"Since 1832 the fields on the edge of Omagh have gathered the finest livestock in Tyrone, and the 184th edition brings two full days of cattle, sheep, horses and home industries to this purpose-built showground."
Omagh Show
"20,000 visitors pour into the Clogher Valley showground for 500 cattle, 500 sheep and 1,000 horses, with a vintage display that turns this mid-Tyrone show into one of the province's most complete country days."
Clogher Valley Show
"A club marking 50 years rolls out tractors and classic cars across the rolling Armagh countryside near Loughgilly."
County Armagh Vintage Vehicle Club Rally
"One of the last Derbyshire wells dressed entirely in the old way with no nails or glue, just clay boards pressed petal by petal, blessed with a service and kept up for five days."
Barlow Well Dressing
"The market town at the heart of the Elan Valley turns its cattle market into a gathering of vintage tractors, steam engines and working machinery each August, a show that could only happen in a part of Wales where the landscape itself feels preserved from an earlier century."
Rhayader District Vintage Show
"Children in elaborate horse costumes parade, then boys plough miniature furrows in the sand at the Hope."
Boys' Ploughing Match and Festival of the Horse
"The plague village dresses its wells in late August, the same clay and petal craft as its neighbours, in a place that carries more history per cottage than almost anywhere in England."
Eyam Well Dressing
"A tower of rushes twelve feet high is pulled through the Pennine villages of Saddleworth by a hundred Morris dancers from across the country, a weekend of dancing, singing, gurning and walking on the edge of the moors."
Saddleworth Rushcart Festival
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