Category: Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show

We’ve been to Spring Countrsyide Show 2024!

Dingle Fingle & The Clown Town Crime Watch were an absolute MUST-SEE in the main ring of the Spring Countryside Show today! We ooh-ed,...

It’s the official Spring Countryside Show Magazine 2024!

Race you to the Spring Countryside Show! Celebrate rural life with racing pigs, comedy car acts, equestrian displays, exciting dog shows, free tractor rides,...

Photographers – have Charlie Waite judge your work at the show!

Keen local photographers are being invited to enter their submissions for the inaugural photographic exhibition at the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Spring Countryside Show, which...

Gillingham & Shaftesbury Spring Countryside Show

Alfred Tennyson might have mused that spring was the season for romance, but in Dorset, hearts are set aflutter with a different kind of...

Cat Harris – the first female show secretary at the Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show

New secretary and West End events pro Cat Harris is set to inject fresh energy into the show, while keeping its agricultural heart and...

Wowie and the Wolfhangers

Wowie Dunnings, inspired by a visit to her sister’s sheep, now successfully raises and showcases her Southdown and Oxford Down sheep in Fifehead St...

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From dissertation to dressage

As the 2024 event season gets under way, Jess Rimmer finds herself balancing books and bridles as it coincides with exam season I thought I’d...

Appeal launched to unlock Sylvia Townsend Warner archive

A new fundraising appeal has been launched to catalogue the archive of Dorset writer and LGBTQ+ pioneer Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978), opening the collection...