WILLINGHAM HORTICULTURAL SHOW

The show is held annually on the last Saturday in September.   The exhibition of flowers, fruit, vegetables, baking, preserves, art, photography and handicrafts is held in the Village Hall opening at 3 p.m.
Exhibitors must live within a five mile radius of Willingham by Stow and produce must be grown in the area.
We hope that you will continue to support this friendly village tradition and look forward to seeing your entries in the next show.

Willingham Horticultural Show 2009

The committee members were delighted with the full and colourful show held on 26th September.  There was the highest number of entries for many years in both the fruit and vegetable classes so the Judges had a hard time in making their decisions.  There were some amazing pumpkins this year, the winning one weighing in at 29kg, just 2kg heavier than the next heaviest.

Margaret Smith, the Society Present, welcomed all the visitors and thanked the competitors and the committee for all their hard work.  She then introduced Mrs Minnie Cradock to present the prizes.  Minnie particularly praised the high standard of entries from the children and thanked all their teachers and leaders for encouraging them to participate.  She said that these youngsters would be the future of our show.

The aggregate cup winner for the adults was Colin Hutchinson, with John Hawkins as runner up.  The aggregate cup winner for the children was Will Summers with Abbie Edwards as runner up.  Proceedings finished with a raffle and an auction of produce. Ralph Bates, the auctioneer, was in fine voice and extracted the last coin from the pockets of those who had kindly stayed on to support this.

WIL.LINGHAM HORTICULTURAL SHOW

CUP WINNERS 2009

Susan Bingham   - most points in Domestic Section –   Amber Shaw

Oliver Cup          - most points in Preserves Section –  Mary Shaw

Spencer Cup       -  best exhibit in Fruit Section –   Colin Hutchinson

Hudson Cup       - most points in Fruit Section –   Will Summers and Colin Hutchinson

Spiller Cup     - Best exhibit in Vegetable Section –   John Brougham

JW Bingham Cup – Most points in vegetable section –  Colin Hutchinson

Smith Cup          - most points in Floral Art Section –  Margaret Wilson

Floral Art Novice cup – winner of novice class -  (no entries)

Arnold Maw Plate  - most points in Blooms Section
Sue Bingham and Dorothy Wain

Slater Cup          - most points in Children’s Section (Key Stage 1) –  Jack Bowles

Parish Cup        - most points in Children’s section ( Key Stage 2) –   Bridget Snee

Photography Cup – most points in Photography section –   John Hawkins

Junior Photography Cup – most points in photography section -  Charlotte Thombs

John Cope Memorial Cup – most points in Junior Domestic section –  Will Wright

Handicraft cup – most points in handicraft section – Mrs S Collingwood

Stephenson Cup – most points for a child in the handicraft section
Autumn Usher and Jack Bowles

Art Cup - most points in Art Section –  Mary Partridge

Aggregate Cup     - Adult –  Colin Hutchinson

Aggregate Cup    - Child –  Will Summers

Runner up            - Adult –  John Hawkins

Runner up            - Child –  Abbie Edwards

THE COMMITTEE
A committee meets two or three times a year to make arrangements for the show
The current committee is

The secretary can be contacted on 01427 788092
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