Camrose Vintage Working Day celebrates silver jubilee (From Western Telegraph)

Camrose Vintage Working Day celebrates silver jubilee

8:30am Saturday 28th August 2010 in

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Camrose Vintage Working Day is an annual event that never diminishes in popularity, and to prove this the show celebrates its silver jubilee this year.

Raising thousands of pounds for local charities, the working day hopes to top £100,000 following this year’s event today Saturday, August 28th.

Celebrating farming cultural heritage the working day, it is held at Folly Cross Fields, Camrose, by kind permission of the Mathias family.

The event is the ideal day out for all the family, with falconry displays, police dogs, sheep shearing and agricultural machinery displays.

There will also be some impressive steam trains, vintage tractors, cars, motorbikes and fire engines on display, for a look back at history in mechanical form.

If that wasn’t enough, there will be all sorts of other demonstrations and displays throughout the day as well as children’s entertainment and music.

This year’s president is Dilwyn Phillips, a founder of the original show in 1985.

To mark this special occasion for the show, the committee have produced a booklet about the 25 year history of the event with assistance from the Mathias family, Pembrokeshire County Council Museum Service and the Welsh Assembly.

This will be available at the show along with a DVD entitled ‘The Love of the Land’ hosted by Abigail Neal which contains interviews with Pembrokeshire farmers about their experiences of farm work from the 1920s to the 1970s along with the important tasks of making home-brew and Welsh cakes.

The vintage working day, which runs from 11am to 6pm, focuses on key summertime farming activities such as baling, threshing, ploughing and corn cutting, as well as much more.

All the action begins when the Camrose Vintage Working Day is opened by the president at 11am, at the show site at Folly Cross Fields, Camrose, near Haverfordwest on August 28th. Tickets for the day cost £5 for adults and £3 for children.