3-028-668 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

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.