Warrigal
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- Location
- Sydney, Australia
An advertisement for the Sydney Royal Agricultural Show has caused me to reminisce about childhood visits to "The Show".
We were taken each year by our mum who grew up in country towns and loved animals. We would trek through all the animal pavilions before anything else. My favourites were the horses, goats and the sows with piglets.
Then we would go to the produce pavilion where each rural region competed for the best artistic display using their local produce. They were spectacular and the range was educational.
Lunch was usually fried chips made from Tasmanian potatoes - cheap and tasty. After lunch we took up seats in the stands to watch the Grand Parade of prize animals, the ride of the mounted police, the camp draft and the sheep dogs performing their work rounding up the sheep.
Before we headed home we went to the show bags pavilion and were allowed to buy two bags, mostly filled with lollies, which we would consume over the next two weeks at home.
I almost forgot - there was also sideshow alley with a ghost train, merry-go-round and other delights. Again, we were limited to two rides so we had to choose carefully.
Does anyone else remember going to an ag show as a child? Anyone ever taken part?
We were taken each year by our mum who grew up in country towns and loved animals. We would trek through all the animal pavilions before anything else. My favourites were the horses, goats and the sows with piglets.
Then we would go to the produce pavilion where each rural region competed for the best artistic display using their local produce. They were spectacular and the range was educational.
Lunch was usually fried chips made from Tasmanian potatoes - cheap and tasty. After lunch we took up seats in the stands to watch the Grand Parade of prize animals, the ride of the mounted police, the camp draft and the sheep dogs performing their work rounding up the sheep.
Before we headed home we went to the show bags pavilion and were allowed to buy two bags, mostly filled with lollies, which we would consume over the next two weeks at home.
I almost forgot - there was also sideshow alley with a ghost train, merry-go-round and other delights. Again, we were limited to two rides so we had to choose carefully.
Does anyone else remember going to an ag show as a child? Anyone ever taken part?
