Fruit stalls made an appearance at shows in the late 1800s. This fruit stall is situated beside Estonian-born photographer Evan Anthonie Johann Lumme's stand. Mr Lumme arrived in Sydney in 1881 and established his photographic business firstly in Ashfield in Sydney. He had been born in 1865. In early 1900, aged 35, he decided to relocate to Orange and remained in the region for the rest of his life where he died in 1935. Evan's stand was a commercial display of his photographic works.
A GROUP of four people, three gents and a lady, are to the right of the photo.
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A little girl is sitting on the ground in front of the fruit display and all are wearing their hats. The fruit stand is selling an assortment of fruit including bananas, pineapples, along with plums, pears, peaches, pears and assorted apples.
Apple types included Granny Smiths, Jonathan, Golden Delicious, Beauty of Bath, Devonshire Quarrenden and Orange Pippin.
All the fruit was fresh, no cold stores in those day. The fruit would have been delivered to the various showgrounds by horse and cart or horse-drawn wagon.
Other stands at local shows would include sandwiches and cakes with customers selecting what they wished to eat.
Another was the aerated cordials with a variety of flavours such as stone ginger beer, lemonade, sarsaparilla, horehound, coola, lemon, orange, hop beer and I am sure other flavours.
Other stalls were set up to allow for various fairground games such as knockems, roller ball, bagatelle, knife throwing and even games of marbles.
Cheap prizes were given out such as teddy bears and other stuffed toys and colourful carnival glass in purple and orange shades.
Cheap ornaments made of cast Britannia-type metal allowed for a selection of salt and pepper shakers, vases, animals and even small model houses.
The lolly stand boasted a variety of types of sweet lollies and lollipops. The stand always proved popular with the young children up to their grandparents.
Sweets such as lemon drops, caramels, peppermints, Butterscotch, sour drops, gum drops, clove twirls, nut cubes, cats-eyes, peppermint drops, molasses sticks, French kisses, boiled lollies and popcorn.
At the Bathurst Show in 1906 the committee had invited the Minister for Mines and Agriculture, the Hon S.W. Moore to open the exhibition on this occasion.
The opening took place at noon in front of the official party that included the Hon George Lee, MLC, president of the Bathurst Show Society; Sydney Smith, MHR; W.W. Young, MLA; and W.S. Campbell, Director of Agriculture. A number of apologies were read out.
The stage from which the addresses were delivered was tastefully decorated with bunting and cereals of various kind, the work being carried out under the supervision of R.W. Peacock, from the Bathurst Agricultural Farm, and upon whom reflects much credit.
The Hon S.W. Moore, who was well received, said he was very glad to be present and to have the honour of officially opening the show before such a large and representative gathering.
He understood that the Bathurst Association had been established about 44 years, making it one of the oldest in the State, only second to the Royal Agricultural Society in Sydney.
He noticed too, that for the last three years the prize money had averaged over £1000 per year.
A prize list could be accepted as the test of its worth. The true test, and one which was going to be more appreciated, was the educational value of the Society's work.
He felt that this exhibition was of such a high standard after taking the morning to look over some of the exhibits.
Four coachloads of miners and workers families from the Lloyd Copper Company at Burraga attended the Bathurst Show on the official opening day and had a satisfying day.
They would have likely seen the Bathurst District Band which had been hired to put on a popular music program throughout the show.