£50,000 Show

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 June 1911, Page 4

£50,000 Show

SIX MILES OF SHEDS FOll THE

"ROYAL."

THE KING'S OPENING

Preparations for this year's Royal Agricultural show, which, it is confidently believed, will prove to be the finest and most .memorable exhibition of its kind ever held in this country, are already well forward at Crown Point, Mr Russell Colmau's picturesque estate close to Norwich.

The show will run for five days, beginning with Monday, June 2ti, and the King will come to Normich on the Wednesday, when he will receive a loyal address from the citizens before driving through the city to Crown Point. Special interest also attaches to his .Majesty's visit because he is this year's -president of the Royal Agricultural Society. Accompanied "by Mr Thomas 'MoCrow, secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society, our correspondent recently visited the showyard — a showyard on such a scale that it takes something like six months to bring it to perfection. Rut "yard" is no term to describe the. site of the exhibition at Crown Point, for "the Royal" has never had so beautiful a home since the time when, twenty-five years ago, it came (a much lesser show then), to the same estate. To call it a show park is to convey a truer impression of the setting of the extensive agricultural town, of white and timbered buildings which is now rapidly arising. SYLVAN SURROI'ND'I N GS. It covers 150 acres on a gentle slope, bounded on its upper side by fine old woods, and on its lower by [the River Yare. Twenty-live of the I 100 acres are picturesque plantations j breaking gratefully into the monotony of the buildings and shedding. Clumps of trees are dotted here and there over the open, and through the middle of the ground, from the high woods to the river where the great wherry sails a-re always gliding and giving a characteristic Norfolk touch to the scene, runs a. noble avenue of elms. Meyond the river rises the wooded hanilet of Thorpe, one of the famous beauty spots of Broadland. Amid these sylvan surroundings the greatest agriculeural show that England has known will be held. The cattle, horses, sheep and pins alone will require neai'ly three and a half miles of covered sheddinir, and Mvo and a half miles will be erected for implements and machinery. Another half-mile of shedding for miscellaneous purposes will include among other features the poultry, produce, bees, and forestry exhibits. There will be an aggregate of five acres of refreshment pavilions, a spcial catering staff of 800 persons, an installation for victualling which will cost about £5,000 and will be ready to supply food iand drink to 200,000 visitoj •s if necessary. £13,000 FOR NEW RAILWAY.. All told the show will cost its organisers at has I .£">0.000 before it j opens, but that is not an excessive figure when it is nsidv red that th" greatest length of tne showyard is almost a mile, the g vatest breadt i half a mile, and the whole li2o acres of turf, with th? exception of the horse ring, will be 'bristling with buildings and op n space exhibits. The prize list totals £10,600. _ In order to get the public and the live atock to Crown Point early the railway authorities have constructed two miles of new sidings, with two spacious platforms each 700 feet long, and a temporary passenger station on the Whitlingham Marshes right opposite the show ground. Two long wooden bridges over the railway line and an iron swing bridge over the River Yare, all temporary structures have been necessitated', as well as a mile of new roadway over the marshes. Fifty thousand railway sleepers alone have heen used ill this work, which will cost about £13,000.--Daily Mail.