The Sandy Show

The Sandy Show. 'The Greatest One-Day Show In England'. So it was billed in the 1920s. The show was first held in 1868 and the Sandy Floral and Horticultural Society, formed the following year, played a leading role in the subsequent running of the annual shows., The show usually held at Sandye Place featured tremendous horticultural and floral displays. Animals also featured, including rabbits. One year in the 1920s a huge storm the night before the show, which was then held on Hawkesbury meadow in Everton Road, wrecked many tents and exhibits and as a result a large number of rabbits escaped into nearby fields and Pym's Wood., The left-hand roundel shows exhibitors and visitors at the show. The second roundel shows the setting up, the exhibits, and the show's title in a floral display in the foreground. The final roundel depicts some escaped rabbits that also crop up elsewhere in the mosaic. The river Ivel is seen meandering through the mosaic., The show reached its peak in the 1920s when it was visited by crowds of up to twelve thousand people. Special trains were laid on from London and elsewhere. The last two-day show was held in 2012, but the one-day annual show continues to this day., Can you spot how many rabbits there are in this picture?, Workshops: , Some of the rabbits were made by pupils from Labumum Primary School Maple Tree Lower School (who also worked on the mosaic 'From Roman Origins') and St Swithun's VC Primary School in Sandy