Yesterday, Today | Boxers, buggy ponies and a behemoth bullock at the show

By Alan McRae
Updated May 8 2021 - 10:58pm, first published May 3 2021 - 5:30am
Yesterday, Today | Boxers, buggy ponies and a behemoth bullock at the show
Yesterday, Today | Boxers, buggy ponies and a behemoth bullock at the show

FOLLOWING the great success of the Grand Juvenile Industrial Exhibition in November 1881 at the showground, manual arts and other school displays were featured in many of Bathurst's shows over the years. Our photo this week is to mark the 152nd Reliance Bank Royal Bathurst Show that was held over the weekend. The photo shows the Bathurst Public School exhibit, Manual Work, in April 1922.

Back then, several showmen, driving steam motor lorries and towing up to four wagons behind, arrived to set up their rides and stands. It took them nearly two days to get from Sydney to Bathurst.

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