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Bressingham Steam with Adam

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Bressingham Gardens and Steam Experience is a unique combination arising out of the passions of founder Alan Bloom, whose profession of nurseryman and gardener and hobby of a steam powered collection of trains and traction engines led to the leisure destination of Bressingham Gardens and Steam Museum.  It's a great family place and we were sure Adam would enjoy this (as well as ourselves!) This was the engine that adam and dad went on, although I am unsure which of the four routes they travelled. They enjoyed themselves anyway. ....... as you can see by Adams face! and then a little celebration dance afterwards. And now it is lunch time Nana. The three-abreast Gallopers are Bressingham centre piece. It is one of the finest to be seen anywhere. Built by Savages of Kings Lynn in 1897 and owned and operated by the Thurston family of Norfolk until 1934, the Gallopers later operated at Whitley Bay and ended up in Scotland b...