The Great Dorset Steam Fair would have been held last month, but instead its future remains uncertain as a buyer has not been secured to take the show forward. The event, founded by dairy farmer Michael Oliver MBE, started in 1969 on fields near Stourpaine in north Dorset. The fair eventually outgrew the fields in Stourpaine and moved to its current 600-acre site near Tarrant Hinton in 1998. When his father died, Martin said: "For the steam fair and vintage vehicle movement he was a pioneer. He was the Great Dorset Steam Fair – a legend.