Royal Agricultural Shows
The Royal Agricultural Show, was an annual agricultural show held by the Royal Agricultural Society of England every year from 1839 to 2009. The event encompassed all aspects of farming, food and rural life - from the best of British livestock to the latest business and technological innovations in the farming industry.
The Fairs were held at the following venues -
- 1839 Oxford
- 1840 Cambridge
- 1841 Liverpool - Falkner's Fields.
- 1842 Bristol
- 1843 Derby
- 1844 Southampton
- 1845 Shrewsbury
- 1846 Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- 1847 Northampton
- 1848 York
- 1849 Norwich
- 1850 Exeter
- 1851 Windsor
- 1852 Lewes
- 1853 Windsor
- 1854 Lincoln
- 1855 Carlisle
- 1856 Chelmsford
- 1857 Salisbury
- 1858 Chester
- 1859 Warwick
- 1860 Canterbury
- 1861 Leeds
- 1862 Battersea
- 1863 Worcester
- 1864 Newcastle
- 1865 Plymouth
- 1866 Show cancelled because of an outbreak of Rinderpest
- 1867 Bury St. Edmunds
- 1868 Leicester
- 1869 Manchester
- 1870 Oxford and Glasgow.
- 1871 Cardiff and Wolverhampton
- 1872 Cardiff
- 1873 Hull
- 1874 Bedford
- 1875 Taunton
- 1876 Birmingham
- 1877 Liverpool
- 1878 Bristol
- 1879 Kilburn
- 1880 Carlisle
- 1881 Derby
- 1882 Reading
- 1883 York
- 1884 Shrewsbury
- 1885 Preston
- 1886 Norwich
- 1887 Newcastle
- 1888 Nottingham
- 1889 Windsor
- 1890 Plymouth
- 1891 Doncaster
- 1892 Warwick
- 1893 Chester
- 1894 Cambridge
- 1895 Darlington
- 1896 Leicester
- 1897 Manchester
- 1898 Birmingham
- 1899 Maidstone
- 1900 York
- 1901 Cardiff
- 1902 Carlisle
- 1903 Park Royal, Twyford Abbey
- 1904 Park Royal, Twyford Abbey
- 1905 Park Royal, Twyford Abbey
- 1906 Derby
- 1907 Lincoln
- 1908 Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- 1909 Gloucester
- 1910 Liverpool
- 1911 Norwich
- 1912 Doncaster
- 1913 Bristol
- 1914 Shrewsbury
- 1915 Nottingham
- 1916 Manchester
- 1917 No show
- 1918 No show
- 1919 Cardiff
- 1920 Darlington
- 1921 Derby
- 1922 Cambridge
- 1923 Newcastle
- 1924 Leicester
- 1925 Chester
- 1926 Reading
- 1927 Newport
- 1928 Nottingham
- 1929 Harrogate
- 1930 Manchester
- 1931 Warwick
- 1932 Southampton
- 1933 Derby
- 1934 Ipswich
- 1935 Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- 1936 Bristol
- 1937 Wolverhampton
- 1938 Cardiff
- 1939 Windsor
- 1940 No show
- 1941 No show
- 1942 No show
- 1943 No show
- 1944 No show
- 1945 No show
- 1946 No show
- 1947 Lincoln
- 1948 York
- 1949 Shrewsbury
- 1950 Oxford
- 1951 Cambridge
- 1952 Newton Abbot
- 1953 Blackpool
- 1954 Windsor
- 1955 Nottingham
- 1956 Newcastle
- 1957 Norwich
- 1958 Bristol
- 1959 Oxford
- 1960 Cambridge
- 1963-2006 Held at Stoneleigh