Full details are in the Steam Plough Times issue 228 – March 2025.
Membership – You need to be a member to vote at the AGM. Renew your membership here or join the club here.
Times – Tours from 10.00am and the AGM starts at 2.00pm
Travel –
Claymills Pumping Engines Trust
Meadow Lane
Stretton
Burton upon Trent
Staffordshire
England
DE13 0DA
By Road
• From the A38, take the north Burton (CLAY MILLS) exit and follow the A5121 towards Burton.
When approaching from the south, take care – the exit slip has a sharp 180° bend.
Meadow Lane is approximately ½ mile from the junction.
Look for the brown signs at the A38 junction and again at Meadow Lane.
• From Burton town centre, follow signs for Derby (A38).
After passing Arnold Clark’s motorstore, watch out for the brown sign at Meadow Lane.
• For SatNav, use postcode “DE13 0DA” to get to Meadow Lane.
• For What3words, the location of our main gate is rating.audio.brass.
By Train
• The nearest station is Burton upon Trent.
By Bus
• The X38 (Burton to Derby) direct service passes the end of Meadow Lane in both directions every 15mins. The nearest stops are the Beech Hotel and the A38 junction. Both are approximately 15mins walk to the pumping station.
Sales – Various items from the club stocks will be available.
Website – www.claymills.org.uk
The Members Area of the website has been updated with Minutes from the Committee meetings Feb 2024-Feb 2025. Fully paid up Members can now view them. Join the Steam Plough Club online […]
The latest addition to our sale items is the “Working Instructions for Fowler Turning Cultivators, Standard and Heavy types, and, Spring Tyne and Medium Cultivators”. The instructions include travelling […]
The Steam Plough Club has launched a brand new clothing range that is available to order from Mid Wales Sign & Print.The range has an embroidered logo on the left […]
Shop / Books / Fowler Cultivating Machinery – Working Instructions For Fowler Turning Cultivators
The Steam Plough Club has launched a brand new clothing range that is available to order from Mid Wales Sign & Print.
The range has an embroidered logo on the left with a Ploughing Engine and Steam Plough Club text.
The full range is available for adults and a small range for children.
Adults:
Polo Shirts
Hoodie
Quarter Zip Sweater
Full Zip Fleece
Contrast Gilet
Regatta Dover Jacket
Children:
Junior Contrast Hoodie
Junior Jacket
Junior T-Shirt
Order now from https://mw-signandprint.co.uk/steam-plough-club/
Brand-new merchandise is now available from the Steam Plough Club shop.
The new Fowler Leeds Pink Cap is a new take on an old favourite.
Click the below to order; the original black is also available at the link below.
Shop / Caps
A selection of second hand books is now available from the Shop Page. Although the books are second hand they are in good readable condition.
The Steam Plough Club Sales Stand On Tour will be at the following events in 2024:
20th April – Steam Plough Club AGM – Coldharbour Mill situated in Uffculme, Devon.
26th, 27th, 28th July – Welland Steam and Country Rally
“This is a great record both of ploughing engines in their ‘working clothes’ – the chains hanging off the back of the tender, the mole draining rope laced through the back wheel hub, the straw bale on the steersman’s stand ready for lighting up the next day – and of the ploughing crews – the clothes, the caps, the cigarettes!
The photographs also reward close study – the bent handrail on Prince and the later shot showing the plough pulled in so close that it probably happened again, the makeshift toolbox behind the crankshaft, the coiling gear always running true, the cultivator with all bar one point removed (why was that?), the plough with only two people on board.
The pictures of the dispersal sale are quite poignant and bring back memories of the Philp sale 36 years later. It is always interesting to look at the prices fetched. The pair of Windsor and Sandringham made £460 – this is equivalent to £13,980 in today’s money. The cultivator from the set of BB’s made the highest price of the day of £420, equivalent to £12,800 now. And to close, Barry’s original, smaller book ‘Ploughing Engines at Work’ was priced at 3 shillings and sixpence which is now £5 – so for a little more money you get more pictures of a larger size at better resolution – bargain!”.
James Hodgson
MEMORIES OF JOHN PATTEN’S PLOUGHING ENGINES is priced at £12.00 including P&P and now available from the shop.
MEMORIES OF JOHN PATTEN’S PLOUGHING ENGINES
Author: Barry J. Finch
Content: 63 B&W previously unpublished photographs with captions, introduction & notes on the June 1960 sale of the late John Patten’s engines and tackle at Little Hadham, Herts.
Format: A5 portrait, 76 pages.
Priced £12.00 including P&P and now available from the shop.
