It's a big year for the North's premier agricultural event. The Great Yorkshire Show is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year and more than 120,000 visitors are expected to make their way to the showground at Harrogate from Tuesday July 8 to Thursday July 10.
How would you like to be part of it? We are offering our readers the chance to present an award at this year's show and receive a free Family Ticket.
This exciting opportunity is the first prize in our new Yorkshire Post-Great Yorkshire Show reade
rs' writing competition. In addition, the winner and two runners-up in the competition will each receive a copy of a new book on the history of the Great Yorkshire Show published to coincide with the 150th anniversary.
A selection of the best reader entries will be published in Country Week in the four issues leading up to the show and the winners will be announced in the first week of July.
If you love the Great Yorkshire Show why not have a go? This is what to do. Write a piece, based on your personal experience, that has some connection with the GYS. It may be a significant meeting, a dramatic incident, a humorous encounter. It need not have happened at the show itself.
Make sure your entry arrives by deadline day which is June 7. It can be any length, up to a maximum of 800 words. Please post it to: Michael Hickling, Yorkshire Post, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 1RW, or email to michael. hickling@ypn.co.uk.
Published to commemorate this year's anniversary, the new book Great Yorkshire: A Celebration of 150 Shows is a must-have account of a unique institution.
This lavishly illustrated book draws on the archives of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society and the Yorkshire Post to portray the show in all its infinite variety and colour.
Leading personalities describe in their own words what this very special annual event means to them. The numerous royal visits to the Great Yorkshire receive full attention, and, appropriately, the foreword has been written by the Show's patron, the Prince of Wales.
The book's author, David Joy, is a true dalesman from a farming family who have lived at Hebden in Upper Wharfedale for more than 400 years. He is the author of numerous books on the countryside and his earliest memories
of the Great Yorkshire Show go back to the 1950s, when his father, Richard Joy, was agricultural correspondent of the Yorkshire Post.
Readers can pre- order
the book, published in late June, price £18.75p inc p&p per book.
To order, please ring 01748 821122 or send a cheque /postal order made out to Yorkshire Books Ltd and send to Yorkshire Books Ltd, 1, Castle Hill, Richmond, North Yorkshire DL10 4QP.
More competition details are available at www. great
yorkshireshow.co.uk. Standard YPN rules apply. Copies of details of these, if required, can be obtained from the Yorkshire Post Promotions Department.
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