What's On Thu 21 Nov 2024

Re-opening Easter 2025
Did you know this time of year is the busiest time for us?

We have taken the fairground rides down , the engines are stripped and washed out and now the hard work begins... everything from carpentry, machining, painting, varnishing, and the very important preparation for non-destructive testing. Sounds complicated but we have the skills to support volunteers in learning as they go regardless of their prior knowledge.

Hollycombe doesn't have an income at this time of year so we need all the help we can get to survive each winter. We do not receive regular funding and rely on the revenue from the year to see us through to Easter.

We always need all the help we can get. You could join us as a volunteer, bake some cakes to feed our hardworking volunteers, visit our online shop, buy tickets to visit us next year or make a donation.
~IT ALL HELPS!~

If you are interested to help in any capacity you can email us: info@hollycombe.co.uk

About Hollycombe...
One of Britain's Largest Collection of steam offering visitors a nostalgic look at how the Victorians and Edwardians used steam as an instrument of work and play, and feature a number of popular fairground sideshows of the period.

With steam-driven rides such as the Golden Gallopers, Steam Swingboats and Steam Chair-o-Planes . A trip to Hollycombe offers visitors both nostalgia and a frisson of excitement! After enjoying the rides visitors can sit back and relax in the Bioscope – a pre-cursor to the modern cinema – typical of the travelling shows which first brought film to the public, or reflect on themselves with a walk through an original Hall of Mirrors.

The fun doesn't end there, we invite you to sit back and enjoy a ride on a steam-train on our railways; the Narrow-Gauge Railway taking breath-taking views over the South Downs or our Garden Railway that is nestled between the Fairground and the Woodland Gardens.