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Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society at Wolverhampton, 1871. Creator: Unknown.

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Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society at Wolverhampton, 1871. 'The annual meeting...of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, was held this year at Wolverhampton...We give a View of the town and the ground occupied by the society for the show-yard. This was on the race-course. The extent of the sheds and pens, ranged in many lines, was in the aggregate about three miles. There were 363 stand[s] for the agricultural implements and the other articles exhibited; while the cattle-show numbered 400 bulls, oxen, and cows; 250 horses, and 600 sheep and pigs. The trials of traction-engines and steam-ploughs took place at Barnhurst Farm, three miles from Wolverhampton'. Note 'Wickham & Pickmere 1st Class Refreshments' on the left. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A49_287

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47,0Mo (3,3Mo) / 41,6cm x 28,3cm / 4910 x 3345 (300dpi)

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travel building buildings England agriculture sport event farming arts society art British show race century stands Britain racing newspapers press print horse racing exhibition refreshments B&W race course tourist attraction first class engraved engraving west midlands racecourse Sports ground 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century tourism The Print Collector 1st class Illustrated London News TGN Wolverhampton wood engraving ILN agricultural show horse-racing refreshment newspaper landscape trade fair Unknown Royal Agricultural Society 19th-century The Illustrated London News