PEMBROKE Farmers Club’s Town & Country Show is gearing up for a landmark year.

2017 is the bicentenary year for the show, the second oldest agricultural show in the UK.

In the run-up to the August show, Pembroke Farmers Club Ladies Committee, which run the domestic and horticultural tent, the showcase for many talented local craftspeople and gardeners, who perhaps do not exhibit elsewhere, is holding a special event.

It is hoped to extend the entry classes in this special year, and the committee is busy fundraising to cover the extra costs.

The next event is a Soup and Pudding lunch at Lamphey Village Hall on Saturday January 21 from 11.30am- 1.30pm.

It is hoped the event will also have a question time on exhibiting, and, if questions cannot be answered on the day, the committee will get back to you.

If you can’t be there send your questions to ladiesfc@hotmail.com

The 199th show, on August 3, 2016, which met with mixed weather conditions, had a packed timetable of events on the showground, with plenty to entertain in the many horse and livestock classes.

Other popular attractions included the ever-popular sheep dog trials, the fur and feather judging, the companion dog show and pets corner, as well as a parade of the South Pembrokeshire Foxhounds.

Chairman Roger Minchin said: “It was very good, the atmosphere was lovely; we were very frightened the weather was going to put a dampener on the whole day but it turned out to be a wonderful day, it all went well.”