The Festival is a celebration of days gone by, of horse and steam power, vintage displays and crafts.

In the cornfield six acres of barley will be harvested by horse drawn reaper and binder and the sheaves stooked and brought to the mills in the festival field for threshing.

Here the exhibition of threshing by steam engines, horse, flail and tractor is the centrepiece of the afternoon.  Young and old delight in seeing the mighty engines billowing smoke and steam high into the air whilst filling the sacks with barley and clearing the straw.