Humber Bridge Garden Centre Steam and Vintage Rally
Traction engines, vintage vehicles and stationary engines gather in the shadow of the Humber Bridge for a family rally that brings working steam back to the East Riding each summer, with the world's fourth-longest single-span bridge making an unusual and spectacular backdrop.
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"The 6th year of this East Yorkshire showground fair, where hundreds of vintage and classic vehicles gleam across the weekend alongside steam engines, an indoor craft hall and a fairground in the heart of the Wolds."
Driffield Steam Fair
"A historic East Yorkshire village spreads concerts across its Civic Hall, parish church and local pubs over the Bank Holiday weekend."
Cottingham Folk Festival
"Throughout June, Flamborough villagers fill their gardens and doorsteps with elaborate flowerpot models of Elvis, Spiderman and beloved characters, turning this headland village into a free family trail that has been featured on BBC News."
Flamborough Flowerpot Festival
"Over fifty acts play pubs, churches and the open street across this market town's ancient cobbled lanes for a weekend of acoustic music and morris."
Beverley Folk Festival
"An intimate acoustic and folk weekend tucked away at Rose Farm in the quiet East Yorkshire countryside, beloved for its homespun, end-of-the-lane charm."
Moonbeams Festival
"Dating back to 1855, this community-run East Yorkshire show brings together livestock, horses, crafts and countryside entertainment at the Ashes Playing Fields in Howden."
Howden Show
"Children carry rush bearings woven into crosses and harps through Wordsworth's village to St Oswald's church, handed gingerbread at the end by the same shop that has made it for generations."
Grasmere Rushbearing
"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
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A sixteen foot thatched rush cart pulled by sixty men in whites and clogs winds between the pubs of the Calder Valley, morris sides dancing it from inn to inn over a September weekend."
Sowerby Bridge Rushbearing
✦ Weird and Wonderful"The Malton showground in the Ryedale market town hosts this September traction engine rally where working steam engines from across Yorkshire and the North compete in road runs and working demonstrations, the last major steam show of the Yorkshire summer season."
Yorkshire Traction Engine Rally
"The North York Moors market town famous for its steam railway goes fully Victorian for a winter weekend, with staff in period dress, lantern-lit streets, costumed carol singers and a steam train pulling out of the station into the winter darkness to the sound of period band music."
Pickering Victorian Christmas
"At midnight on New Year's Eve forty odd guisers carry blazing barrels on their heads to a bonfire in the Northumberland market square, then turn to first foot the year in."
Allendale Tar Bar'l
✦ Weird and Wonderful