For an interesting day out at a
genuine auction house visit us
AUCTIONS EVERY TUESDAY
10.00am
Regular Antique & Collectable Sales
O House Clearance
O Collection & Delivery
Service available
O Valuation Service
O Sales `On The Premises'
Watton Salerooms
10 Breckland Business Park
Norwich Road, Watton
IP25 6UP
Phone/Fax: 01953 885676
or 01760 720665
STEPHEN ROBERTS
(Auctioneer) Ltd.
www.thesalerooms.co.uk
YOUR WEETING STEAM ENGINE RALLY AND COUNTRY
SHOW SUMMER SAVER VOUCHER IS ON PAGE 73
IF YOU are looking for a fascinating and nostal-
gic family day out for the whole family, look no
further than the Weeting Steam Engine Rally and
Country Show, taking place from Friday 17th -
Sunday 19th July at Fengate Farm on the
Norfolk/Suffolk border.
There are parades of steam traction engines
and steam lorries, vintage tractors and fire
engines, plus working steam-powered farmyard
machines, a full-sized steam train on rails, a
model steam train (which takes passengers
round a track) and small steam models.
There are static displays of vintage cars,
motorbikes and military vehicles.
There are demonstrations of steam ploughing,
steam threshing of corn, steam-powered sawmill
and stone-crushing and farmyard implements of
a bygone era. Ploughing and cultivating demon-
strations using vintage tractors and horses will
be taking place throughout the weekend.
The Snakewood Dog Agility Team will give reg-
ular demonstrations in their own separate arena.
There will also be a craft marquee and many
trade stands. Helicopter flights have proved to be
a popular way to get a bird's-eye view of the
whole show.
There are also old time fairground rides as well
as new rides, bouncy castles, and many other
bits to keep the whole family entertained. Nigel
AS AN age-old Norfolk country
show, the Wayland Show is one of
the mainstays of the county's rural
calendar.
For more than a century,
Wayland Agricultural Show has
been an important event for the
farming industry and rural commu-
nity in Central and West Norfolk.
Now, with an eye ever firmly on
maintaining and raising its status, it
stands proud alongside its counter-
parts, the Royal Norfolk and
Aylsham Shows.
Keen not to lose the tradition
which has been built up over the
past 135 years, organisers are also
looking to the future and consider-
ing expanding the show's scope as
a resource to help inform and
engage the public with farming and
the countryside, while at the same
GRIME'S Graves is the only Neolithic flint mine
open to visitors in Britain.
A grassy lunar landscape of over 400 shafts,
pits, quarries and spoil dumps, they were first
named Grim's Graves � meaning the pagan god
Grim's quarries, or `the Devil's holes' � by the
Anglo-Saxons. It was not until one of them was
excavated in 1870 that they were found to be
flint mines dug over 5,000 years ago, during the
later Neolithic and early Bronze Ages.
What the prehistoric miners sought here was
the fine quality jet-black flint `floorstone', which
occurs some nine metres below surface level.
This was prized as an easily `knapped' material
for axes and other tools � and much later else-
where for well-sparking musket flints.
Digging with red-deer antler picks, they sank
shafts from which radiated gallery-tunnels, fol-
lowing the seams of flint. Today visitors can
descend 9 metres (30 ft) by ladder into one exca-
vated shaft, an unforgettable experience.
Set amid the distinctive Breckland heath land-
scape, Grime's Graves is also a Site of Special
Scientific Interest.
You can phone for the dates of regular Flint
Knapping demonstrations and follow the "Flint
Trail" to nearby Weeting Castle and Castle Acre.
Grimes Graves are open daily from the begin-
ning of April to the end of September from 10am
to 6pm. There is no entry to the mines for chil-
dren under five. Grimes Graves is seven miles
north-west of Thetford on the A134.
More information can be obtained from the
Exhibition Building, Lynford 01842 810656 or at
English Heritage's website
www.english-heritage.org.uk.
Neolithic mines
Dreadnought, the inspiration for Weeting Rally, owned by Richard
Parrott.
Syer makes a wel-
come return to the
rally this year and will
be your Friday night
entertainment in the
restaurant marquee.
Entertainment by Dr
Busker is also avail-
able in the main bar
marquee.
The Burrell
Restaurant will be
open all day and
evening and there will
be catering stands
dotted around the
showground.
To enable visitors to
see all the attractions on the 170 acre show-
ground, transport is provided, free of charge, in
the form of specially built trailers, towed by trac-
tors.
Car parking is free and there is a 12 acre car-
avan and camping site for those who wish to
stay for the whole weekend.
For further information please contact Wendy
Young on 01842 810317.
Alternatively visit www.weetingrally.co.uk
Show opening times: Friday and Saturday
10am � 11pm, Sunday 10am � 5pm.
Get up steam at Weeting
time realising its main objective
which is to raise funds for local
charities.
The show is run by local people
for the local community and any-
one interested in those values is
welcome to join the Committee.
Each year, along with other events
held by the Wayland Agricultural
Society, the show raises thousands
for local charities.
The 136th show, which will take
place on Sunday, August 2, has an
exciting and varied programme.
The horse trials will include some
of the qualifiers for the Olympia
horse show and there will be a dis-
play by the Household Cavalry,
who have not appeared at the
show for some years, along with
both new and traditional stands
and displays relating to rural life,
pastimes and crafts.
More information on the Wayland
Agricultural Show at www.way-
landshow.com
The sheep (pictured left) and horses (above) always create much
interest at Wayland Show.
Proud Wayland

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