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Celebrating history and tradition at the
Great Yorkshire Show
Two unique historical projects will celebrate the Great Yorkshire Show’s 160th anniversary at this year’s event.
he Yorkshire Film
Archive and
Washburn
Heritage Centre
have both created
special displays to
let visitors to the show on Tuesday
10 to Thursday 12 July see both
farming down the years and earlier
Great Yorkshire Shows.
In a first for the show, a big
screen will be installed on the
President’s Lawn to show film of
previous Great Yorkshire Shows
put together by the Yorkshire Film
Archive’s team. The specially-
curated short films will also be
shown on the big screen in the
main ring and in the Exhibition
Room at the Yorkshire Event
Centre.
A sneak preview of some of the
fabulous footage spanning the
decades will be rolled out on
social media from tonight and
every Monday until the show to
give a taster of what’s in store.
Yorkshire Film Archive Manager
Graham Relton said: “We were
delighted to be asked to help with
this project and we scoured the
millions of feet in our vaults to
uncover the really iconic and most
engaging material on both
Yorkshire agriculture and the Great
Yorkshire Show over the last 100
years.
T
“Using both professional and
amateur footage shot we hve
created a number of packages
especially for the Great Yorkshre
Show audiences. As a regional
charity it is brilliant to bring back
this film heritage to one of the
places where it was originally shot.
“The show has changed
massively over the years but
captured in the frames of celluloid
preserved at the Yorkshire Film
Archive are images that remind us
how in some ways it has remained
very much the same and I am sure
these images will really resonate
with the audience a