The JOLLY THRESHER CAR & STEAM meeting, Boxing Day 2023

The "Tom Barlow" steam & classic cars meet at the Jolly Thresher pub in Lymm on Boxing Day 2023 is today's video. This is an event we'd been to some years previously - 2009 was the year of our last visit - note the very young Youthful Assistant shown briefly! After so many years it was due a return trip, so with Christmas Day behind us we headed along the M6 to re-acquaint ourselves with this informal meeting.
Steam vehicles are the key reason for the Jolly Thresher / Tom Barlow meet, and are joined every year by all manner of old cars, vans, tractors, lorries and motorcycles, making for a very enjoyable few hours. Everything gathers at the Jolly Thresher, then a short run down the road takes places to the next pub, The Wheatsheaf, where the vehicles congregate once more. For some entrants that's it, whereas others then set off down the road for a couple of miles down to the Ye Olde No.3, another well-established watering hole in the area.
It was great to see the steam rollers and traction engines that turned up, my favourite of the steamers though was the wonderful Sentinel steam wagon shown in the thumbnail. It's always a treat to see such vehicles at vintage events, but even better to see them driving along on the road.
Cars present at the Jolly Thresher in Lymm this year included a couple of Jeeps, a superb Austin 16 alongside an equally smart Chevrolet Corvair, Moggy Minor and others, plus "fly bys" from a Gilbern (several times) and an immaculate Jensen Interceptor. Various motorcyclists turned up on their venerable machines, as did a groovy Dodge van and a fine pair of trucks. Tractors were also very well represented.
We'll definitely make the effort to re-visit the Jolly Thresher/Tom Barlow car & steam meeting next year on Boxing Day, if I get myself organised enough perhaps we'll drive over in something appropriate.
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