Every year it now seems common place to elect a new president for the Emley Show at the December Annual General Meeting, ending the year with a new president who stays in seat for the coming year and next show. This event has now taken place and I feel it is worth putting pen to paper to write this article about our new President April Bray. April and I spent...
I’ve been visiting agricultural and allotment shows on and off for the past thirty years, originally as a member of a brass band but more recently to try my hand at competing. I used to enter the vegetable classes but since moving away from the area and relinquishing my allotment I’ve concentrated on preserves and baking and, more recently photography. There’s something very satisfying about seeing the little coloured card...
What a wonderful show we had this year! The weather held up beautifully – thank goodness the heatwave lasted long enough! As always our visitors were a wonderful bunch: engaged, happy and the response to the show was top notch. The results of the 2018 Emley Show can be found here. A photo gallery of the 2018 show can be found here. Lost property Found on the showground after closing...
The Showjumping classes in the Equine section have been cancelled for safety reasons. Mrs Hampshire took this decision late on Friday, in line with other local equine events, as the ground was thought to be dangerously hard. However PLEASE NOTE that the rest of the Equine section of the show will go ahead as planned – it is only the Show Jumping which is affected. Also we have been informed by...
We aim to make the show as accessible as possible for members of the public and this year we are teaming up with Age UK Calderdale and Kirklees who are providing a number of mobility scooters free of charge for people who might find it difficult to walk the around the show ground. You do not need to be registered disabled.
The fantastic Xtreme Stunts Team will be attending the Emley Show on the 4th of August 2018!
