STAVELEY SHOW

STAVELEY SHOW - 27 July 2014, was held on a warm sunny, mostly, Lakeland day.  It almost took a bit of finding as it was only a small local show in a sloping field with no directions posted.  Despite parking-up to consult a map, wondering if I had got the right Staveley, it was only when the Ullswater Foxhound’s trailer turned into a narrow gateway to a field on the other side of the road that I realized I had found it.

The show brought back memories of past times of staying in Kentmere and wassailing in the Eagle and Child in Staveley with the Holme Valley Beagles, so I was delighted to be able to renew one or two acquaintances from those past times.  Maybe I will dig out the old slides and post some if they are good enough.  However the Staveley Show was for the fell foxhounds, beagles, lurchers and terriers.

In no particular order, some photos of the day.

I am told that this type is a 'bull lurcher'

Lurcher men comparing notes

 In the foxhound ring

 Beagles getting ready

Terriers being judged

Beagles in the ring

 Rest and recuperation.  If he really doesn't want that head of hair then I'll have it!

Foxhound antics

 Terrier antics

 Tension in the terrier ring

 Prizes

 More terrier antics

 Lurcher judging

 

 Beagles attentive

 Apprentice beagle judge I think

 Foxhounds waiting for the end-of-show conviviality to finish so they can go home