Forthcoming Events
Border Counties Steam & Country Show
Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd May 2026.
If you would like to enter for the show, please click below:
Alternatively, printable forms can be found below
Please Note: All catering aspects for the event have been filled!
PASSES
If you have registered online, your passes will be ready and waiting for you at the gate. Upon arrival, simply provide your name and indicate the section where you’ll be exhibiting. You’ll then receive your wristbands at that time.
Some helpful information:
Exhibitors have access to the camping field from Wednesday - Monday. Craft & Model marquee access from Friday afternoon.
To help make your trip as smooth as possible, please follow the BCVC directional signs & highway signs ‘Vauxhall Camp’. Postcode: NP25 5BA.
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Lawn Mower Racing
A new feature to the 49th event, Barum Lawn Mower will be starting their season with us! They will be in the showfield, where the auction previously was, just the other side of the lane from camping. So, please bare this in mind when finding a pitch in the camping.
Saturday Night:
Road run - Open to all vehicles. 6.00pm start, meet by the beer tent. A short run around our beautiful countryside.
Live music - Join us in the beer tent to celebrate the end of day one! We have ‘The Dark Tones’ playing at 8 o’clock. The catering units are also remaining open! Delicious pizza from Mobile pizza, Burgers & Chips from The Cotswold Game & Meat company!
Gentle Reminder:
As per the T & C’s on the entry forms, in the interest of safety to the public, no exhibits are to MOVE or LEAVE the show site before 16.30pm. Unless under exceptional circumstances. Maximum of 5mph while on the show site. All camping exhibitors to park with hitches or centre of vehicles on the white markings.
Road works & closures: Please plan ahead & expect possible delays, especially at peak times.
A40 Southbound (Raglan - Gibraltar Tunnels): Weeknight closures (8pm-6am) continue until May 17th. A40 Land Slip. (E) Dixton roundabout. Contraflow. May still be in place. If you need to contact us on the week leading up to the show, please call the relevant section leader or 07594 469 412 or 07494 281 014.
The club was formed in 1975, by a group of like-minded enthusiasts, who felt there was a need for a vintage club in the area.
Following a meeting it was decided to call the club the "Border Counties Vintage Club" as the formation took place at Symonds Yat - on the borders of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire & Monmouthshire.
The club started with an opening membership of 15 (it now averages 150 year on year) some of which have remained members throughout the year`s including the club`s first chairman Derek Williams.
The aims of the club, then, as now, "ARE TO FOSTER INTEREST, DISPLAY & PRESERVE ALL ITEMS WHICH COME UNDER THE HEADING VINTAGE", and the membership is open to anyone who owns or is interested in vintage machinery & vehicles of all types.
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Our History
The first club rally took place on 5th October 1975, which were known as “Working Rallies”, normally taking place in the autumn after the farmer’s had completed their harvest, exhibitors with tractors, machinery & often horses gave ploughing demonstrations. Owing to the autumn weather being very unreliable, we started having rallies in the spring. For the first 13 years rallies were held courtesy of the Gee & Beaumont families at Old Court Farm, Symonds Yat, until the site was outgrown & we moved to Speech House, in the Forest of Dean where we stayed from 1988 - 2003.
Ironically perhaps, that over the years shows have been held in each of the 3 “Border Counties” Our monthly meetings take place at the Old Court Hotel, Symonds Yat, at 8pm on the first FRIDAY in the month, where speakers come and different presentations are shown. It is the aims of the club, that following each show, a proportion of the profits are donated to LOCAL charities or individuals who perhaps find it difficult to get financial assistance from elsewhere. Over the years well over £40,000 has been donated to many worthy causes. For 2004, needing yet more space, we moved to our present site, at Vauxhall Fields, Monmouth, where our annual show continues to grow, culminating into a “2 DAY SHOW” in 2008.
© 2016 Border Counties Vintage Club Ltd.
Registration No. 3494136
29 Belgrave Road, Abergavenny,
Wales, NP7 7AH
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Registration No. 3494136
29 Belgrave Road, Abergavenny,
Wales, NP7 7AH
site by web informed
