PEOPLE heading to the Who’d Have Thought It Inn at St Dominick could have been forgiven for thinking they had stepped back in time – with a traction engine in steam parked outside the pub.

The maroon-painted Richard Garrett & Sons traction engine belongs to James Evans, the husband of Tamar Valley artist Mary Martin.

James, who lives below the village, had steamed his engine up the narrow lanes to a point where it could more easily be placed on a lowloader lorry for its journey to join hundreds of other traction engines at the Great Dorset Steam Fair.