TAKE A look back with us at the Bellingham Show throughout the years.
From humble beginnings back in 1842, the Bellingham Show and Country Festival has grown to become one of the most hotly-anticipated events in the county’s calendar.
Every year residents see a fantastic assortment of vintage vehicles circle the main ring around and inter-farm challenges to get the crowd going.
Visitors can also take part in Quoits, which is a traditional game that involves the throwing of metal, rope or rubber rings over a set distance, usually to land over or near a spike (sometimes called a hob, mott or pin).
As well as many sheep, cattle, and horse displays, there are forestry shows and other entertainment such as live bands and singers.
As part of the celebrations, there is a chance to enter the fell race.
Recently The Bellingham Show has been listed as one of the top 10 of the UK's best country shows according to the Guardian.
The Guardian said: "This festival in the village of Bellingham, on the edge of Northumberland national park and half an hour from popular Hexham, is celebrated in Philip Larkin’s 1973 poem Show Saturday.
"It still features the dogs, ponies, and sheep mentioned by Larkin, his beer marquee (which is now called the Reivers Return), the “long high tent of growing and making” and his Cumberland wrestling event. Other longstanding traditions include the Northumbrian piping competition and the fell race, while more novel attractions include the Biking Vikings, a group of motorcycle-riding, stilt-walking, pipe- and drum-playing charity Vikings. As Larkin said of the show, “Let it always be there.”"
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