3-082-991 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Royal Agricultural Society at Darlington: Mr. Wilson Bennison [sic], Surveyor of the Society, 1895. 'The Royal Agricultural Society's Show, the fifty-seventh since the establishment of the society, is being held this year at Darlington, where it opens to-day, June 22...The accommodation for such a quantity of machines and beasts requires a large space of ground, and quite a city of sheds, as well as other erections, to cover and protect them while the show lasts. The erection, as well as the removal, of the sheds each year is the duty of Mr. Wilson Dennison, the surveyor to the society, who is kept busy, for as soon as he is finished with one show he has to move on to the ground for the next year's work and begin anew. Mr. Dennison designed and constructed the structures for the South Kensington Exhibitions, the "Fisheries," the "Colonial," etc,, and he is an authority on all such erections...The show will continue until June 28'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.