catkom3 Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Anybody tell me when the Royal Show is on,I seem to remember it was the Smithfield,but I'm probably wrong, :- Regards Joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Royal Show was at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshie, last one was in 2009. Smithfield Show was at Earls Court in London, not sure that show is still going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catkom3 Posted December 9, 2013 Author Share Posted December 9, 2013 Cheers Barry,I remember Stoneleigh and Earls Court,but wasn't sure which venue was which show,a guy in Switzerland asked me to find out when and where the 2014 one was, Regards Joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr softie Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 was last week joe going by this post about Donald from well hung and tender on facebook Well... The Donald may recently have been made a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society but he's getting called other names here. He's obviously had a wild time at Smithfield. We didn't hear from him for a quite a while and,when we did, he'd lost his phone and we've had to post him the spare keys for the truck so he can drive home from Peterborough!!! Now....if I'd lost the keys..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 The show at Earls Court was The Royal Smithfield Show to give it it's correct handle, it was always held in December but due to the cost of staging the event and cost to exhibit it finally closed down in about 1998, I have fond memories of going to the Show several years running during the 1970's, a group of our Young Farmers Club members would catch the 6.00am train from Exeter St David's Station and, barring delays and breakdowns, arrive at Paddington Station around 9.15am and then take the underground 'tube' to Earls Court and get out under the exhibition centre, up the stairs and straight into the main hall, spent the morning looking around the tractor and machinery stands, blagging posters and badges and any other freebees we could get, then had lunch in the restaurant and then the afternoon looking around the livestock and other stuff. When the Show closed to the public at 6.00pm we would hit Carnaby Street looking in all the shops and then onto Soho, some of us would go and see a live theatre show, one I remember was featuring Edward Woodward and Michelle Dotrice, forget the title, others would go into a cinema and watch one of the latest film releases, on one occasion it was Ryan's Daughter. Whilst walking along in Soho we would constantly be accosted by the doormen outside the strip clubs wanting us to go in but we always said that we could not afford the £5 entrance, they would keep negotiating this and many would of let us in for 50p but we never did. After taking in a film or show we would then go into a posh looking restaurant for an affordable meal, we found out that if we kept talking to each other around the table in our broadest Devonshire dialect we could muster the waiters would keep coming with food and drink just to listen to us talking, we were well fed. Back to Paddington station in time to catch the midnight train back to Exeter, this was also the Mail train and stopped at almost every station, we arrived back at Exeter at 6.00am and then home, just in time to have a cup of tea and then milk the cows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr softie Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 http://www.royalsmithfieldclub.co.uk/Activities/activities.html#aug13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Smaller scale spin-off of the original? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catkom3 Posted December 9, 2013 Author Share Posted December 9, 2013 Thank you all for the helpfull info,which helped me find it was actually Lamma I was looking for, Regards Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Not to be confused with the woolly South American spitting animal that belongs to the Camel family and spelled a little different. They look at you funny as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 ...or the lead singer of Kajagoogoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catkom3 Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 ...or the lead singer of Kajagoogoo :ha ha!: ;D Your needing new batteries in your Thesaurus Barry,that was LIMAHL, ;D Regards Joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mf135 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 The last Royal Smithfield show at London's Earl Court exhibition centre was in 2004. Kind regards Martyn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ford/nh fan Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 It's a shame both shows are no longer on . Went to the royal every year . Went to the Smithfield a couple of times that was a good show . Just typical of this country everything so expensive to stage or the wrong people in charge of the shows . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Like most agricultural and machinery shows nowadays, the organisers are too greedy and want a fortune for a pitch and this is why they are going to the wall, Westpoint Arena, the Exeter site, it costs £10,000 just to hire the big building for 3/4 a day just for the toy fairs so what it must be for the Devon County Show is anyone's guess! Another factor is in that there are now no UK machinery manufacturers in the numbers that were in the 60's and 70's and before and the face of agriculture has changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IH885XLMAN Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 ur so right power rabbit I remember going to royal Smithfield in 1988 .....I was brilliant to the 16 yrold keen to learn everything he could about farming remember the big trailed blue and yellow combine harvester there im sure I saw the last line of CASE/IH 1394s 1494s 1594s there too I realy like the deutz commander aswell KRAMER loading shovels .....the MF 390 next to the datatronics ford 7610s 7810s I think ford were bragging up there new digi dash on the 10 series .......welga balers kidd foragers there was a bloke demonstrating the manual tyre bead buster too ha ha coming out of erlscourt getting ripped off buying pint passing off as 18 ha then making our way back to marble arch via the tube and bein accousted buy some dodgy ladies of night falling asleep on coach on the way home good memories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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