Selection of articles about Steampunk events I attended with portraits from these events.
The more you speak to those in the Steampunk community and ask them about their favourite events, the Lincoln Steampunk Fesival comes up time and again. It’s an event I would have attended before now but it happens over the August bank holiday and I seem to always be busy. Since I had decided at…
At the end of July I decided to visit Whitby again, this time for the Steampunk Weekend. I often decide to visit such weekends one or two weekends before by which time accommodation in Whitby is very expensive. As such I ended up staying in Scarborough which has better prices and is only 30 minutes…
The more Steampunk events I attend the more I get to recognise certain faces and begin conversations with people. When chatting to them I often ask them what their favourites Steampunk events are and many seem to include the Papplewick Pumping Station Steampunk Weekend in their answer. As such I decided to include it on…
At the end of June I attended another new (to me) Steampunk event, namely Blists Hill Steampunk Weekend. Blists Hill is often referred to as ‘The Town That Never Was’. Blists Hill is near Ironbridge and was reconstructed to illustrate what life in a Victorian town was like. Many of the buildings were moved from…
Keen to try out some new Steampunk weekends I came across the Newark Steampunk Festival. I noticed that there was a pretty active Facebook group called The Newark Steampunk Society and someone I’ve met on other weekends who I follow on Instagram called Craig Jenkins indicated that it was an event worth attending. Newark Steampunk…
With the start of a new year I decided that I would try and get out more and attend more events in 2024. The first of these events that I pencilled in my diary was the Tenby Steampunk Festival which took place in March. It was the first time the event would take place so…