Lincolnshire Show

Lincolnshire Show

Angling on the lake - try fishing at the #Lincsshow

If you come to the Lincolnshire Show only expecting farming things you're in for many surprises. Among the knights, the military, the schools, the curios, the wild animals, the gardens, the art and the hybrid cars I also found people fishing!

 

Fishing
Lincolnshire Show June 2010

Amazing chainsaw carvings on display at the #Lincsshow

Hard to believe that these are all done with a chain saw, which is hardly what you'd consider a precision tool!

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Farrier at work - #Lincsshow - (sweaty young man with muscles in a hot workshop)

For as long as mankind has ridden horses there have been farriers. The skills the Romans used to shoe their horses are still in use today, very little has changed. We still love to ride horses and we still need farriers to shoe them, so this is one of the few ancient skill that isn't in danger of dying out.

Farrier_at_work

Inside the goat enclosure at the #Lincsshow

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collection of photos of just a few of the goats on show at the 126th Lincolnshire Show. This enclosure was very popular, especially with the children.

Sir William of Lincoln, Knight of the Damned, practicing with his lance skills using a quintain

Knights of the Damned put on a brilliant show in the Countryside Arena. In this short video clip,

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Sir William of Lincoln practices his lance using the traditional equipment, a quintain.