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Long Live Driffield!

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Long Live Driffield!

Although under new management and organisation the 31st Driffield Steam Fair, as it’s now called, was set to be staged on 8-9 August 2020 on the Driffield Agricultural Society’s site, where for the previous 30 years the East Riding Engine Club had staged the event so successfully. It had become part of Driffield’s town heritage and through thick and thin it had become an event always to look forward to, there was the Pickering Rally a week or so before, then

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