Following a talk at one of the Bourne Bygones Club's winter meetings in early 2007, the club was invited to visit Ron Knight's collection of old harvesting machinery, tractors and steam engines at his premises in Little Casterton, near Stamford, in Lincolnshire.

We last visited the Easton Collection in our inaugural year of the Fens Vintage website in 2003 with the Bourne Bygones Club, but in 2006, we were part of a large group from the East Anglia Group of NVTEC. Gordon's collection can be described as all-encompassing covering horse drawn carts and implements, stationary engines, tractors, cars, lorries, gypsy and living vans, bygones, even a WWII jeep and associated memorabilia.

The Denny Abbey & Farmland Museum situated just off the A10 a few miles north of Cambridge is well worth a visit, particularly for anybody interested in agriculture and old farm machinery. We were invited to attend the Stationary Engine open days held over the May Day holiday weekend.

Following on from the Bourne Bygones Club visit to Gordon Easton's last year, the club this year visited the Kerfoot collection in south Lincolnshire. This visit, however, was very different in that it is not a private museum collection but very much a working farm using mainly classic tractors.

As part of a weekend break at Skegness, we visited the Church Farm Museum which is part of the Lincolnshire Museums collection. This venue aims to provide an insight into life and conditions on a small farm in the Lincolnshire area from about the 1700s through to the 1950s.