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The month of December sees many towns up and down the country holding Christmas carnivals and parades, and Paul Ritchie visited a few in Dorset where a strong selection of local traction engines were in attendance.
First up was the Blandford for some years now. It was named in celebration of a Government overseas hop tariff that was imposed. In its later life it worked on Burbage Wharf on the Kennet & Avon Canal, and then in the 1970s Geoff Fincham of Shillingstone restored it from a derelict state.
