Pictures: Steampunk fans descend on Doncaster for annual Victorian spectacular

The Doncaster Steampunk Spectacular featured activities taking place throughout the city centre including the Mansion House, Sir Nigel Gresley Square and the Frenchgate precinct and Clock Corner.

The day of extravagance and splendour included entertainment and activities including musical act Old Time Sailors, Day of the Dance Morris Dancing from Green Oak Morris Men, Steampunk Dance Group Umbrella Academy, a steampunk and vintage traders fayre and a group promenade.

There were also exhibitons and “tea duelling.”

And if that wasn’t enough, there was also a hot air balloon tethered in Sir Nigel Gresley Square to promote the Doncaster Balloon Festival, coming later this year.

The two day spectacular will take place on Town Field on July 19 and 20 and promises a feast of attractions.

Full Balloon Festival details are available HERE

What is Steampunk?

Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.

Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era or the American "Wild West", where steam power remains in mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power.

Steampunk features anachronistic technologies or retrofuturistic inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them — distinguishing it from Neo-Victorianism — and is likewise rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art.

Such technologies may include fictional machines like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne.