A Saracen Armoured Personnel Carrier.
Two London buses in use as a back screen for the falconry display to dissuade the birds from flying off over the open fields beyond.
An encounter with an owl.
The steam tractors were built in the twenty first century in the style of those of a hundred years earlier.
When World War II ended, the Vickers Engineering Company decided to use their experience of building military tanks to produce a rugged civilian vehicle which could work as a tractor or as a bulldozer. The Vickers VR180 Vigor was powered by a 12.7 litre Rolls-Royce engine and was produced until 1961. Here, our host, Stephen Robson demonstrates ploughing using the Vigor to drag the cultivator.
A West Highland terrier and his master, visiting from Scotland, admire a vintage Ferguson tractor.
As the day drew to a close, the contingent of Scottish built Albion lorries left for home, with the 1967 Albion Reiver leading an Albion Claymore of a slightly older vintage. Note the Westie is now comfortable on his cushion in the cab of the Reiver, master of all he surveys!
A view of the bridge from the English bank as I made my way towards it.
Concluding this set of pics with one which might be captioned "Walking Home to Scotland" as I made my way across to the waiting vehicle on the Scottish bank of the Tweed.
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