Thursday 21 June 2012

The Royal Cornwall Show and the Tavistock Steam Rally

The Royal Cornwall Show is a large agricultural show similar to the Melbourne Show and is one of the premier social event of the year and is held over three days at a site near Wadebridge over three days.  Unfortunately the first day was a washout with the Sheep tent being ripped apart resulting in the departure of most of the sheep.  The second day was fine, but was cold and very windy (and crowded!) and the third day the weather was somewhere between.  We went on the second day..

Here are some links with information about this years show:
http://www.royalcornwallshow.org/
http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Resilient-Royal-Cornwall-crowds-smile-storms/story-16337774-detail/story.html

The Tavistock Steam Rally was held on the following weekend and again was very wet resulting in the absence of many exhibitors and participants and was poorly attended.

 Crowds at the royal Cornwall Show
 The prize winning Exhibit from the Trelawney Nurseries
 Two views of the Lifton Farm Shop prize winning Exhibit

 Another prize winning display
 A bonsai display
 A Hanging Basket display - miniature roses
 Two cut flower displays

 Sheep shearing
 Pig judging
 Inside the Rare Breeds tent




A llama exhibit
 The Devils Horsemen - A stunt riding team on the main arena

One of the horses that played Joey in the film Warhorse
(Picture taken by my friend Eve who was also at the Show)
 The Cornwall College Time Machine - Rock and roll to the present day
They were doing 60s material at this stage
 Various traction engines on show



 A Buddhist Hearse - on display at the Co-op stand
 Mum and her friend Leslie browsing
The stand for Truro School and the preparatory school Treliske both of which I attended.


The Tavistock steam rally was poorly attended, mostly due to the weather - but here are some photos of the event.

 Some model ships
 A steamroller
 Miniature steam engine
 There were steam roller and miniature steam engine rides
 Some Jeeps
 A Landrover Ambulance
 A RAF Ford
A Rolls Royce
 A Bentley
 A Riley Elf
A Ferguson Tractor
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