A coffee morning organised to give the people of Llanfyllin and surrounding area another chance to view a special display of memorabilia arranged to mark the 150th anniversary of the town’s show was a great success on Saturday, raising £800.
There was so much interest in the popular display at last month’s show that some people failed to see it, so the show committee decided to hold a coffee morning at Llanfyllin Institute from 10am to 1pm.
The display, curated by Derwena Davies and Janet Jones, who was this year’s president, featured loaned items included show schedules and posters dating back to the early 1900s, lots of old photographs and newspaper cuttings and artefacts.
Available to buy at the coffee morning were tea towels printed with the design of an original show poster from 1914, which was dated two weeks before the outbreak of the 1st World War.
Raffle prizewinners were: Derwena Davies, Jill Roberts, Maureen Shingler, Megan Roberts, Nigel Pugh, Yvonne Lightfoot, Steve Wilkinson, Janet Jones, Betty Jones, Jane Carrington and Victor Thomas.
Show chairman Dyfrig Jones thanked the people who supported Saturday’s coffee morning. He revealed plans to hold further social events between shows to generate interest and attract new committee members. Planned events include a clay pigeon shoot sometime next spring.
The show’s annual meeting is being held at the Public Institute, Llanfyllin on December 2 at 7.30pm, when an item on the agenda will be to appoint a new show secretary. Jill Hollinshead is standing down after eight years in the post.
Mr Jones thanked Mrs Hollinshead for her loyal service. He said applications for her successor must be received by Mrs Hollinshead at hollingshead790@btinternet.com by November 27.
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Sioe Llanfyllin Show
It is difficult to say when the first Llanfyllin Show took place. There has been an annual Show of some type goingback possibly to the time of the visit of Charles l. in 1645 an occasion which was celebrated with horse racing on Cefn Bran. That was an isolated event, because it was not until after the Restoration that the next race meeting could be held.
From that time forward, until they were transferred to Oswestry, the Llanfyllin races were a regular feature of the town’s life and their institution in honour of Charles l. was generally acknowledged.
Even after their removal to Oswestry, some kind of event took place locally as recorded in a newspaper article dated 1803 that announced the races being held on 4th July. Stewards were listed as Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and David Evans.
