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Thank you to the Horticulture Society for the following write up of their 58th Annual Flower & Vegetable Show:

Despite the dullest August on record and flash floods the day before the Show, washing some regular exhibitors vegetables away, entries were only a little down on last year. However, despite this the village put on an excellent display.

The Horticultural Society are particularly grateful to the commitment of the judges. Mr R Hill of Dronfield worked particularly hard this year judging the local flowers as usual, the local vegetables in place of Mrs Hill who was unwell and also jointly the open chrysanthemum classes as the planned judge had to withdraw because of a family commitment. Mr W K Wilkins of Bradley judged the dahlias and jointly with Mr Hill the chrysanthemums. Mrs M Oldfield of Buxton, a former head of catering at M & S judged the home produce section. This was her first year as one of our judges and we hope we will see her again in the future. The organisers were particularly impressed that she noted that she was served an M & S quiche for lunch. Last but not least we would also like to thank Emma of Absolutely Fabulous in Ashbourne for stepping in at the last minute to very professionally judge the floral art.

The Society would also like to give a big thank you to all who worked so hard to make the day a success. As can be seen from the list of trophy winners below Tony and Rita very nearly swept the board. The prizes were presented by our new Headteacher Caroline Rogers and Denis Laycock very ably acted as auctioneer. The auction made around £120, which will go some of the way towards covering the expenses of the day.

Trophy winners

Harry Hopkinson Memorial Cup
(for best floral entry in the local classes)
Rita Marshall

Ambrose Wilton Trophy
(for highest scoring entrant in local dahlia classes)
Peter Rawlins

Crompton-Inglefield Cup
(for highest scoring entrant in the local flower section)
Rita Marshall

Bob Matthews Trophy
(for best vegetable in the local classes)
Alan Oldfield

Eric Allsopp Memorial Cup
(for highest scoring entrant in the local vegetable section)
Tony Marshall

Tallis Trophy
(for highest scoring entrant in the children’s section)
Tamara Danks and Ben Pitts jointly

Dorothy Foden Memorial Trophy
(for highest scoring entrant in the preserves and cookery section)
Jane Bennett

Alan Oldfield Trophy
(for highest scoring entrant overall in the local flower and vegetable sections)
Tony Marshall

Floral Art Rosebowl
(for highest scoring entrant in the floral art classes from both the local and open classes)
Rita Marshall

P&DHS Chrysanthemum Cup
(for highest scoring entrant in the open chrysanthemum section)
Paul Snow

P&DHS Dahlia Cup
(for highest scoring entrant in the open dahlia section)
Paul Snow

Abel Shipley Memorial Trophy
(for hanging basket competition)
Jack Cundy