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== The Royal Agricultural Show in Hoole, June 1893<ref>''<small>Cheshire County Records Office; Lancashire County Libraries’ Digital Archive of 19th century newspapers; The National Archives, Kew; and [[The Hoole Millennium Book]]</small>''</ref><ref>''<small>Article researched and written by Monty Mercer, May 2017, Hoole History & Heritage Society</small>''</ref> ==
The Showground in Hoole, an engraving from “The illustrated London News”, published on the opening day of the Show: in the foreground the main Show Ring, with Chester’s skyline and the Welsh hills in the background.
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The animals would have been taken into the showground, via the show service road entrance, to stock pens at the rear of the ground, to acclimatise and to settle. (This road is in Alexandra Park, which leads to its maintenance yard along the easterly edge of the Dene Hotel).
A copybook exists, written by Vincent Williams<ref>''<small>Mrs. Churton, for access to her father’s, Vincent Williams’, copybook of 1893</small>''</ref>, an eight-year-old boy at the time, who lived in Egerton Terrace, Hoole Road, and who watched the passage of the animals to the showground: “''Although I did not go to the show, I saw a great deal of it, in the Pigs and Sheep and Cows and Bulls and Horses passing our house to the Show. Some of the Cattle, particularly the Bulls, were very fat. I also saw a great many implements pass and the Steam rollers and locomotive traction engines and all dairy things, churns and such like. The decorations on the road and in the town are very nice''”.
'''Saturday, 17th June''' dawned hot and dry, as indeed it had for the previous seventeen weeks. There had been a drought in England, with only two days’ rain since early April, thus belying Mr. Bennison’s (the Society’s surveyor’s) earlier fears for the possible muddy condition of the ground at the Chester Show.
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The entrance to the Showground on Hoole Road, from the front page of “The Farmers’ Herald”, printed daily at the Show.
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