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EXCELLENT FARES RELIABLE SERVICE May 2014
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It’s Spring Time, It’s Show Time! Plans for the 175th Anniversary Hadleigh Show on Saturday 17th May are nearly complete and we hope you will join us for a fun family day out at Holbecks Park. To mark our anniversary our theme is “How we farm today” showcasing some huge modern farm machinery. Visitors will get the chance to get up close to these machines around the showground and to see them in action in the Main Ring where there will be active demonstrations of a forage harvester, combine, round baler, onion harvester, seed drills and cultivators with commentary from Tom Bradshaw, the North Essex farmer who featured on the BBC Harvest series last year. In the Countryside Ring we have the Welsh Axe Men, the Flying Fergies, Cyril the Squirrel and his Racing Terriers, falconry and YFC Tug-O-War to mention a few. The Sheep Show will be back, as too will the “Land Train” with its stopping stages around the showground. Children can take the “Passport Challenge” and get their card stamped at identified locations before returning to the Membership Tent for a chance to win a goody bag. The traditional rural agricultural show content, however, remains centre stage with more than 150 classes of cattle, sheep, goats and horses on show, not to mention the Grand Parade of winning entries and displays of Suffolk Horses to remind us of the “machines” of our early shows. There is also the Art Exhibition and Sale; Education Tent, Food Hall, Craft Tent and Flower & Horticultural Marquees. Advance tickets can be purchased on-line at www.hadleighshow.co.uk as well as the usual retail outlets; Keith Avis Newsagents, Hadleigh; Hollow Trees Farm Shop, Semer; Boxford Stores, Boxford; Bates Wells & Braithwaite, Sudbury; Hall Farm Shop, Stratford-St-Mary. If booking before Friday 16th May, visitors can take advantage of the ‘Early-Bird Discount’, which reduces a Family Ticket (2 Adults with up to 3 Children) to just £24.00. Other Early Bird prices are: Adult - £9 (£12 on day); Child 5-16 – £5 (£7 on day); Senior Citizen - £7 (£10 on day). Parking is FREE; gates open at 8.00am.
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