Minsterley Show our local country show

It has been a few years since we visited the Minsterley Show which is held in fields about a mile or so from home. It was covid that prevented the show going ahead for a couple of years and then a date clash stopped us attending last year.

But nothing stopped us enjoying our local country show this year. For a few days prior to show time we had watched the marquees, tents and livestock pens going up and even heavy rain failed to stop everything being ready.

The day of the show dawned bright mostly sunny but with periods of cloudy skies. The threatened rain came to nothing.

The show celebrates the things that are locally important, so we saw vintage tractors, competitions for sheep and goats of all kinds, a huge variety of cattle and horses from Shetland ponies to decorated heavy horses.

Various sized marquees were home to artists and crafts people, bee keepers and producers of all types of food, savoury and sweet. Between the marquees were stalls and display areas featuring all sorts of companies selling vintage tools, solar panels, country clothing etc. Of course there were all sorts of food and drink sellers too and of course the purveyors of ice cream.

We began at the display areas exhibiting vintage transport, as well as tractors. We were then drawn to the sports cars of our childhood days.

Nearby was this beautiful piece of engineering!

A short walk away was the marquee housing exhibitions of home made crafts, cookery and a section all about plants. Here we found a display created by the WI and tables of plants from hostas to dahlias.

I couldn’t resist pointing my lens at this treasure chest of garden flowers and foliage.

So that is part one of my post all about Minsterley Show ………….

In part two we will look at by far the largest section of the show, livestock!