KEEPING THE LEGACY ALIVE

Richard Lygo recalls pushing his daughter Sara in her pram around the first rally they attended, at Cromford. Growing up with that interest and enthusiasm within the steam world, it was perhaps inevitable that young Sara would grow up with an ambition to work in that environment.

She was 10 when she became a steam apprentice and that is where the story begins on her early association with the traction engine her family now proudly own.

At that time Sara was working alongside engineer Leslie Donn and his father Bryan.

Leslie explains he purchased the castings and boiler for the miniature version of the John Fowler & Co engine from David Parkin in Castleford 30 years ago. “I believe there were only four sets of castings produced, and the drawings covered two types of engine,” explains Leslie.

“We purchased the engine part-made in the 1990s