Oswestry Show – A Date for Your Diary – Saturday 1 August 2026.

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In this podcast, Kate Lawson chats with Oswestry Show chairman David Kempster and colleague Tanya McGee. The main aim of the Oswestry Show is to educate visitors about agriculture in the community. Around 14,000 to 16,000 people attend this annual show, and David shares details of what those attending can expect. Lanyon Bandler will be at the show offering hospitality and we look forward to seeing you there.


[00:00:54 – 00:01:12] Kate Lawson: Today I’m delighted to be joined by David Kempster, the chairman of Oswestry and District Agricultural Society, and Tanya McGee, our commercial and agricultural property lawyer at Lanyon Bowdler, based in the Oswestry office. Thanks for joining me today both.


[00:01:11 – 00:01:14] David Kempster: Morning. Thank you.


[00:01:13 – 00:01:21] Kate Lawson: And you’re here today to have a chat with us about, I would say, probably the biggest event in the local farming community, Oswestry Show.


[00:01:21 – 00:01:24] Kate Lawson: when is it taking place this year, David?


[00:01:23 – 00:01:27] Tania McGee: the 1st of August at Oswestry Showground.


[00:01:27 – 00:01:32] Kate Lawson: And that’s just off the main road via Oswestry,


[00:01:31 – 00:01:32] Kate Lawson: isn’t it?


[00:01:31 – 00:01:36] Tania McGee: Oswestry bypass by the Whittington roundabout.


[00:01:35 – 00:01:39] Kate Lawson: Fantastic. Tanya, how are you involved with the show?


[00:01:38 – 00:02:24] Tania McGee: I have a slightly dual role here today because I had the privilege of being voted, of being honorary solicitor of the Oswestry District Agricultural Society in March 2020, with that I have the ability to go to their meetings, their council meetings, which has been an absolute eye-opener for me because I never realised just how much there was involved in setting up and putting on the agricultural show, attending those and seeing the commitment of the members and all the kind of hard work that they do to get everything ready for the kind of show day is outstanding and it takes so much preparation doesn’t it?


[00:02:24 – 00:02:37] Kate Lawson: Yes, I can imagine, David, that it takes an awful lot to organise the show. I believe that normally as soon as the show has taken place, you set the date for the next. the next year and start preparations again.


[00:02:36 – 00:03:01] Tania McGee: The date of Oswestry show is the first Saturday in August every year and that will vary obviously from the first which is this year which is the earliest it can be through to the seventh. So the date is set but the show this year will be on the first of August. All of August after that will be sorting out, tidying up. All the office side of the show come


[00:03:00 – 00:03:02] Kate Lawson: Yes.


[00:03:01 – 00:03:05] Tania McGee: the 1st of September, we start again


[00:03:05 – 00:03:13] Tania McGee: it is a 12 months project. It goes on all year round.


[00:03:12 – 00:03:23] Kate Lawson: Fantastic. And I know that there’s an awful lot of things that take place at the show. It’s not just something that attracts the farming community, is it?


[00:03:22 – 00:04:05] Tania McGee: It’s a very wide range. of activities at the show our main aim is to educate the general public about agriculture in their community so it’s very much agricultural based but for everybody and there is something on the showground for everybody whether it’s from horticulture to sheep to horses to cattle to a funfair for the children there is something for everybody at the show we try to Try to make it as wide-ranging as possible for the general public, but keeping it agricultural-based to promote our industry to the wider public.


[00:04:04 – 00:04:09] Kate Lawson: That’s fantastic. So how many visitors normally attend the show?


[00:04:08 – 00:04:48] Tania McGee: We will have 14,000 to 16,000 people to show. It’s a very busy day. A lot of people come from all over the area. We get a lot from Wrexham, from Shrewsbury, Bridge North, all over the county. We’re very lucky. We are very well supported by the Oswestry people, Oswestry community support the show very well, talk to a lot of people. It’s the one date in their diary that they have is Oswestry show and we’re very fortunate for that, that we are supported really well by the community. See?


[00:04:47 – 00:05:23] Kate Lawson: Yes, I know when I was at the show last year, I was actually talking to some people that had come from Nantwich, they had come from North Wales. And yes, it’s certainly not just a big event within Shropshire and across the border into mid Wales, but it does attract an awful lot of people from all different walks of life, which is it’s fantastic to show off what Oswestry and the farming community are all about. Ouch! Can you tell us a bit more about the different events that take place in the main arena and also across the wider showground?


[00:05:22 – 00:06:13] Tania McGee: We have horse section which will be running from 8.30 in the morning through to about 4 o’clock. We’ll hopefully end up with sort of 300 to 400 competitors in the horses. The cattle and sheep, they start arriving about 5 o’clock in the morning. and they will start competing eight eight thirty hopefully there will be sort of 250 300 cattle and then the sheep we should hopefully will have 350 to 400 sheep and then we also have a pig section which there’s usually about 50 pigs there and also a rare breed section which will have probably about 80 to 100 rare breeds so on the livestock oxide there is an awful lot of different things to see


[00:06:12 – 00:06:14] Kate Lawson: Something for everyone.


[00:06:13 – 00:06:27] Tania McGee: thing for everyone yes then we have a huge horticultural section which is i would say probably one of the best in the country our marquee is the biggest marquee you can get this


[00:06:26 – 00:06:28] Kate Lawson: Fabulous.


[00:06:27 – 00:06:59] Tania McGee: is huge we get hundreds of entries in that and that is a real credit to everybody concerned that That brings all draws a lot of people outside of agriculture to look at that section. That’s very popular. We’ve got the rare breeds. They have one of the buildings and we will have probably three to four hundred entries in the rare breeds. That is a huge draw to a lot of the families. You can have your rabbits, chickens, all


[00:06:58 – 00:06:59] Kate Lawson: Wow


[00:06:58 – 00:07:12] Tania McGee: sorts up there and that is a great part of the show in the show building. And then we will have all the exhibitors as well for everybody else and that is from your big agricultural tractors through


[00:07:11 – 00:07:13] Amanda Jones: Yep.


[00:07:12 – 00:07:21] Tania McGee: to your small traders doing children’s toys all sorts there is something for everybody and


[00:07:20 – 00:07:22] Kate Lawson: Something for everyone.


[00:07:21 – 00:07:31] Tania McGee: and then our entertainment in the main ring this year in the morning of the main in the main ring we will have all horse judging in and


[00:07:30 – 00:07:31] Kate Lawson: Yes,


[00:07:30 – 00:07:37] Tania McGee: all the horse a lot of the the hunters the shire horses that side of the horse section I it


[00:07:36 – 00:07:38] Kate Lawson: bet that’s quite a spectacular display.


[00:07:38 – 00:08:15] Tania McGee: it is it is especially when you’ve got it’s split into four sections and so there’s something going on somewhere in the main ring all morning and then they’ll finish about 12 o’clock and then 12 30 we have a display by the Wednesday hunt and they bring their hounds and that is hugely popular they’ll have the children in the ring with the hounds last year they had the hounds racing the children up the main ring which was fantastic absolutely there must have been 250 children in the main ring racing the hounds up and down the ring it was a fantastic


[00:08:14 – 00:08:15] Kate Lawson: Well,


[00:08:14 – 00:08:15] Tania McGee: brilliant


[00:08:14 – 00:08:15] Kate Lawson: it’s one way


[00:08:14 – 00:08:15] Tania McGee: sight


[00:08:14 – 00:08:16] Kate Lawson: to tire


[00:08:15 – 00:08:16] Tania McGee: it


[00:08:15 – 00:08:17] Kate Lawson: them out, wasn’t isn’t it?


[00:08:16 – 00:09:03] Tania McGee: well yes so that is very very popular and then we’ll also we have the parade of all the vintage machinery which will be from cars to tractors to lorries all sorts of vintage machinery because we have a very big vintage section at the show they’ll have probably two to three hundred competitors or entries in that this year they’re having a big section on the grey fergie centenary this year and they’re They’re aiming to have 100 grey Fergies with different implements on in their section so they will be doing a big display in the main ring. We have our main ring entertainment, main entertainment this year which is Jamie Squibb motorbike display team.


[00:09:02 – 00:09:04] Kate Lawson: Fantastic.


[00:09:03 – 00:09:12] Tania McGee: I’m not exactly sure what he will be doing but from the posters I’ve seen he’ll be going upside down and spinning around


[00:09:11 – 00:09:12] Kate Lawson: Oh,


[00:09:11 – 00:09:12] Tania McGee: and


[00:09:11 – 00:09:12] Kate Lawson: very dramatic.


[00:09:11 – 00:09:40] Tania McGee: doing all sorts, yes. So he does too. who displays during the afternoon we’ll have the decorated horses will be in the main ring that’s the shire horses with all their decorations and they’ll be doing a display and being judged in the main ring that’s great entertainment for the public we’ll follow with our grand parade and the presentation of all the cups to all the light the horses and the livestock winners of


[00:09:39 – 00:09:40] Kate Lawson: Yeah.


[00:09:39 – 00:09:49] Tania McGee: their classes and sectors sections, so hopefully we’ll have sort of two hundred. sheep cattle and horses in the ring oh


[00:09:48 – 00:09:51] Kate Lawson: I can see why it takes so much to organise this


[00:09:50 – 00:10:20] Tania McGee: yeah now. and then new for this year we’ve got the bowen and d mounted games and that’s the the bowen and d pony club are organising a mounted games competition which is the gym car sort of equivalent to what used to be gym karma uh sack race bending race and they’re doing two competitions in the app the afternoon which is always very entertaining because you’ve got ponies racing up and down the main ring with uh


[00:10:19 – 00:10:21] Kate Lawson: Yeah,


[00:10:20 – 00:10:31] Tania McGee: the children racing each other and it should be a great attraction to the show this year so hopefully that there’s something in the main ring for everybody to enjoy the


[00:10:30 – 00:10:35] Kate Lawson: certainly sounds like there is. You’ve thought of everything there, I think.


[00:10:34 – 00:11:10] Tania McGee: show has been going 139 years next year is our centenary of 140 years is where we’ve been at our current location which we actually own now at Park Hall since well we moved there permanently in 1982 or 83 but we had one year there in 1979 which was after the camp was closed and finished we moved there to try it for one year our main rink was Oswestry Rugby Club pitches which


[00:11:09 – 00:11:10] Kate Lawson: Okay.


[00:11:09 – 00:11:14] Tania McGee: are now and all the nissan huts were still on the show ground it was


[00:11:13 – 00:11:15] Kate Lawson: Right.


[00:11:14 – 00:11:18] Tania McGee: an army camp which was empty so


[00:11:17 – 00:11:18] Kate Lawson: Yeah.


[00:11:17 – 00:11:44] Tania McGee: we had stalls all around our previous site used to be at mile end um care of the thompson family um so i’m not sure how many years it had been there but a long time it had been at mile end it had been there as long as i could remember anyway And before that, I’m not sure. And then we moved back to Thompson’s for 1981 while the site was cleared and


[00:11:43 – 00:11:45] Kate Lawson: Oh, being


[00:11:44 – 00:11:45] Tania McGee: got


[00:11:44 – 00:11:46] Kate Lawson: ready to.


[00:11:45 – 00:12:02] Tania McGee: ready. All the mess and huts were cleared and it was all sort of put back to open fields. And we’ve been at the showground where we are now ever since, since about 1982. And we’re very fortunate we now own the site. site that


[00:12:01 – 00:12:02] Kate Lawson: Mm hmm.


[00:12:01 – 00:12:06] Tania McGee: is the agricultural society showground so yeah


[00:12:05 – 00:12:06] Kate Lawson: Fantastic.


[00:12:05 – 00:12:07] Tania McGee: we


[00:12:06 – 00:12:15] Kate Lawson: We spoke before about how it’s very close to Oswestry. It’s just off the bypass. What arrangements are there for parking?


[00:12:15 – 00:12:18] Tania McGee: have many options for parking basically


[00:12:17 – 00:12:19] Kate Lawson: Oh, good.


[00:12:18 – 00:12:32] Tania McGee: you can park and ride we have an agreement with oswestry livestock auctions and people can park at oswestry livestock Soccer auctions and Owens coaches do a park and ride system


[00:12:31 – 00:12:32] Kate Lawson: Oh,


[00:12:31 – 00:12:41] Tania McGee: where they will pick up from Oswestry Livestock and then they’ll do a route through Oswestry and pick up outside the park gates all free of charge.


[00:12:40 – 00:12:42] Kate Lawson: brilliant.


[00:12:41 – 00:12:58] Tania McGee: Yeah, all free of charge to show pay for the coaches for the day. So there’s a park and ride system runs from about 8.30 in the morning till 5.30, 6 o’clock. clock in the afternoon every quarter an hour or half an hour so


[00:12:57 – 00:13:00] Kate Lawson: So you can have a full day out then?


[00:12:59 – 00:13:13] Tania McGee: you can have a full day out we have actually had people who drive to the show park at the cattle market and then get the park and ride then get the bus back into Oswestry and then have a night out in Oswestry afterwards and


[00:13:12 – 00:13:14] Kate Lawson: Ah, yes, yes.


[00:13:13 – 00:13:20] Tania McGee: then come back on Sunday to pick the car up because the market does open Sunday morning for and


[00:13:19 – 00:13:20] Kate Lawson: To release


[00:13:19 – 00:13:20] Tania McGee: release


[00:13:19 – 00:13:21] Kate Lawson: the cart?


[00:13:20 – 00:13:22] Tania McGee: the cars at


[00:13:21 – 00:13:22] Kate Lawson: Fantastic.


[00:13:21 – 00:13:37] Tania McGee: the left there there’s that parking there’s also two large fields opposite furrows uh car dealers on the whittington road which have of those two fields we have a tunnel under the bypass into


[00:13:36 – 00:13:37] Kate Lawson: Yeah.


[00:13:36 – 00:13:48] Tania McGee: the show ground and that is members car park in judges car parking and general public car parking all car parking for the show is free of charge


[00:13:47 – 00:13:48] Kate Lawson: Mm-hmm.


[00:13:48 – 00:14:13] Tania McGee: Then there is another two fields wittington side of the showground which the general public and stewards can park on or members can park on and then walk across past the rugby club to the showground so there is plenty of parking all signposted the signs will be up probably six days before the show it is all signposted from the mile end roundabout


[00:14:12 – 00:14:20] Kate Lawson: That’s fantastic. We mentioned about how it’s a full day out. Are there different food stalls available?


[00:14:19 – 00:14:59] Tania McGee: There are lots of different food stalls. We have all sorts of food. There is a food area at the end of the main ring where there is obviously drink and all sorts of different food tables and a full eating area. There are ice cream vans dotted around the showground and there are also… Both sweet vans which come to the show as well for members. There is a members catering area as well inside one of the pavilions. There’s two main food areas which have a huge selection of different sorts of food. Yes.


[00:14:58 – 00:15:00] Kate Lawson: I remember spending actually.


Part 2 [00:15:00]

Speaker mapping:

Introducer (Speaker 0) = diarization label A

Amanda Jones (Speaker 1) = diarization label B

Kate Lawson (Speaker 2) = diarization label C

David Kempster (Speaker 3) = diarization label D


[00:15:00 – 00:15:07] Introducer: Fortunato a year ago without buying some fresh bread some cakes absolutely delicious


[00:15:06 – 00:15:16] Amanda Jones: And then we also have our food hall. There will be lots of different stalls selling food, all sorts of different food in the marquee. So yeah,


[00:15:15 – 00:15:16] Introducer: again


[00:15:16 – 00:15:24] Amanda Jones: there’s a huge selection of different types of food for people to either eat on the show ground or to take home with them after the show.


[00:15:23 – 00:15:26] Introducer: bringing again something for everyone


[00:15:25 – 00:15:33] Amanda Jones: Something for everyone. That is our main aim is to have something for everyone that there’s plenty of choice.


[00:15:32 – 00:15:40] Introducer: Fantastic. Just going back to the history of the event, do you know much about how it first came about?


[00:15:39 – 00:15:56] Amanda Jones: The whole ethos of the show which comes from when it first came about a group of farmers got together and wanted to show the Oswestry people what agriculture was all about and also about bringing the competition between farms for


[00:15:55 – 00:15:57] Introducer: Yes.


[00:15:56 – 00:16:01] Amanda Jones: their livestock that was the whole ethos of what it was set up on


[00:16:00 – 00:16:04] Introducer: And are some of those farming families still involved today?


[00:16:04 – 00:16:16] Amanda Jones: yes because a lot of Oswestry is sort of long-standing family farmers so there will be a lot who have been involved over many many years


[00:16:15 – 00:16:18] Introducer: And each generation passing it on to the


[00:16:17 – 00:16:20] Amanda Jones: next to the next yes yeah


[00:16:19 – 00:16:23] Introducer: And being sort of a date in the calendar that doesn’t shift,


[00:16:22 – 00:16:23] Amanda Jones: That’s


[00:16:22 – 00:16:23] Introducer: no


[00:16:22 – 00:16:24] Amanda Jones: right. Yes.


[00:16:23 – 00:16:28] Introducer: matter what else is going on, that’s what you have to do.


[00:16:27 – 00:16:28] Amanda Jones: Yeah.


[00:16:28 – 00:16:31] Introducer: Everybody knows that’s where you’re going to be.


[00:16:30 – 00:16:32] Amanda Jones: Yeah.


[00:16:31 – 00:16:39] Introducer: And so, yes, each generation perhaps adds something else to the show and helps it develop and evolve.


[00:16:38 – 00:17:02] Amanda Jones: That’s what we hope. Everybody who’s involved, I think our whole aim is to leave it in a better way. a better situation than it was when we first started and i think that’s probably what has happened over the years with every generation they want to improve and grow the show as they have the chance the biggest issue we have now is with all the rules and regulations that


[00:17:01 – 00:17:03] Introducer: Yeah.


[00:17:02 – 00:17:05] Amanda Jones: they didn’t have they were fortunate


[00:17:04 – 00:17:06] Introducer: I bet.


[00:17:05 – 00:17:06] Amanda Jones: that


[00:17:05 – 00:17:06] Introducer: Yeah.


[00:17:05 – 00:17:12] Amanda Jones: we do now with health and safety and traffic management and that side


[00:17:11 – 00:17:12] Introducer: And


[00:17:11 – 00:17:12] Amanda Jones: of it that’s


[00:17:11 – 00:17:14] Introducer: also with livestock move. movement because


[00:17:13 – 00:17:15] Amanda Jones: Yeah.


[00:17:14 – 00:17:23] Introducer: there’s been a few times where circumstances beyond everybody’s control have affected what’s been able to exhibit at the show so


[00:17:22 – 00:17:26] Amanda Jones: Last year we had a big problem with blue tongue with the cattle.


[00:17:25 – 00:17:27] Introducer: right i


[00:17:26 – 00:17:30] Amanda Jones: Fortunately this year we’re touching wood and should hoping


[00:17:29 – 00:17:31] Introducer: erase


[00:17:30 – 00:17:31] Amanda Jones: at


[00:17:30 – 00:17:33] Introducer: it should i please don’t come back on me it says fantastic


[00:17:32 – 00:17:41] Amanda Jones: the moment it’s all looking that there should be no problem. So we’re hoping that will help the entries considerably. drab league


[00:17:40 – 00:17:41] Introducer: Yes,


[00:17:40 – 00:17:42] Amanda Jones: yeah we


[00:17:41 – 00:17:46] Introducer: yeah. And I presume there were a few years where, of course, it was affected by COVID.


[00:17:46 – 00:17:51] Amanda Jones: had two years when we had no show for because of covid yes which


[00:17:50 – 00:17:51] Introducer: But


[00:17:50 – 00:17:52] Amanda Jones: was


[00:17:51 – 00:17:52] Introducer: then


[00:17:51 – 00:17:52] Amanda Jones: we


[00:17:51 – 00:17:53] Introducer: you came back fighting and


[00:17:52 – 00:17:54] Amanda Jones: came back fighting


[00:17:53 – 00:17:54] Introducer: expanded


[00:17:53 – 00:17:54] Amanda Jones: with probably


[00:17:53 – 00:17:55] Introducer: even more.


[00:17:54 – 00:18:01] Amanda Jones: the biggest show we’ve ever had was the year after covid it


[00:18:00 – 00:18:01] Introducer: Yes, yes.


[00:18:00 – 00:18:02] Amanda Jones: was yes


[00:18:01 – 00:18:02] Introducer: I


[00:18:01 – 00:18:02] Amanda Jones: everybody


[00:18:01 – 00:18:05] Introducer: think, again, it was a celebration. Everyone was pleased


[00:18:04 – 00:18:05] Amanda Jones: came


[00:18:04 – 00:18:05] Introducer: to…


[00:18:04 – 00:18:07] Amanda Jones: out to see people


[00:18:06 – 00:18:09] Introducer: be able and to come out and celebrate


[00:18:08 – 00:18:09] Amanda Jones: Yes.


[00:18:08 – 00:18:11] Introducer: the farming community as well.


[00:18:10 – 00:18:11] Amanda Jones: We


[00:18:10 – 00:18:18] Introducer: Are there many people involved in the society itself helping to organise everything throughout the year?


[00:18:17 – 00:18:41] Amanda Jones: employ three people in the office. One is in charge of the showground, the letting and all the sort of marketing and social media side of it. And then the other two ladies are… are looking after all the livestock actually no there’s four because we also have another lady who looks after the whole section so


[00:18:40 – 00:18:42] Introducer: Okay.


[00:18:41 – 00:19:24] Amanda Jones: we have people who are in charge of their own areas on the showground and they start in September and it is a 12 month project they are working three four five days a week or the office is manned four days a week all year round so they will start in September and they will be working on the show all winter and now it starts getting even busier through until the show but it is a 12 months project they’re on in the office yes it’s without the office Doing what they do, the show wouldn’t happen, but we are also very fortunate with Oswestry Show that the rest of it is all done by volunteers.


[00:19:24 – 00:19:26] Introducer: Oh, wow.


[00:19:25 – 00:19:45] Amanda Jones: We have one caretaker who looks after the show buildings, but all the horse section, livestock section, horticulture is all done by volunteers. We’ll have about… eight or ten working party day nights on


[00:19:44 – 00:19:46] Introducer: Oh.


[00:19:45 – 00:20:25] Amanda Jones: the build-up to the show we’ll start it on the 7th of July and that will be every Tuesday and Thursday seven o’clock till half nine and we can have 35 to 40 people there each night helping us set the show up it always astounds me with the show and I’ve been doing it a long time I will have three, four weeks setting the show up, two nights a week, sometimes three nights a week if we’re getting behind, and on the Sunday morning after the show we have a huge amount of people arrive, eight to half past Sunday morning by twelve o’clock. it’s put away everything


[00:20:24 – 00:20:26] Introducer: Oh, wow.


[00:20:25 – 00:21:28] Amanda Jones: is away in the sheds obviously there’s still the marquees to come down which the marquee companies have started but every part of what the volunteers do by sunday lunchtime it’s all cleared back in the buildings put away ready for the following year and then as i said before we will have august when we sort of assess what’s happened at the show how every section went and when how the areas worked and any issues that arose and in september we start planning again with september october november we’ll have a lot of subcommittees which again is all voluntary we’ll have the horse section the livestock the horticulture the small animals they all have meetings to start planning the following year’s show so without all those volunteers it really would not happen the show it’s it’s incredible the amount of time that people put in


[00:21:27 – 00:21:31] Introducer: Yes, yeah, it’s very much a community event,


[00:21:30 – 00:21:32] Amanda Jones: it is yes


[00:21:31 – 00:21:36] Introducer: organised by community people putting an awful lot of effort in.


[00:21:35 – 00:21:37] Amanda Jones: effort in yeah i


[00:21:36 – 00:21:37] Introducer: That’s fantastic.


[00:21:36 – 00:21:54] Amanda Jones: say i just stand at the top and guide without about all the people doing their bit it would not happen at all i always think on show night it’s always so it makes you so proud to see what everybody’s put on and shown the general public what


[00:21:53 – 00:21:54] Introducer: Yes,


[00:21:53 – 00:21:59] Amanda Jones: we can do and you know what agriculture does for the area so


[00:21:58 – 00:21:59] Introducer: absolutely,


[00:21:58 – 00:22:00] Amanda Jones: it’s yeah


[00:21:59 – 00:22:00] Introducer: absolutely.


[00:21:59 – 00:22:12] Kate Lawson: I mean as a firm we’re really looking forward to attending the show and being part of it and there’ll be a range of staff. off their sea and speak to everybody and no doubt there are still tickets available.


[00:22:11 – 00:23:03] Amanda Jones: There are tickets available. We’ll be selling our membership tickets. They’re available from the show office or online up until two weeks before the show. But the tickets are available online. We do a early bird offer on the tickets, which are a reduced price up until two weeks before the show and then a slightly reduced. price up until a week before the show all the tickets can be bought on the morning of the show because it’s all done by barcode now so we do get a lot of people who walk into the show coming on the bus and they’re buying their ticket on the bus so when they get to the show they can show their ticket on the phone and it’s straight into the showground and we do recommend if it is possible that’s the easiest way because it’s a lot quicker entry into the show with With pre-bought tickets.


[00:23:02 – 00:23:07] Kate Lawson: How much is it, David, to you getting to the show on the day?


[00:23:06 – 00:23:26] Amanda Jones: For adults, it’s £19, and then we also do have a family ticket, which is for two adults and three children, and also under-fives will be free. So free entry for under-fives on show day. There are other concessions for over-sixties and pre-show tickets.


[00:23:25 – 00:23:28] Introducer: Those would be obtained from the website,


[00:23:27 – 00:23:29] Amanda Jones: On


[00:23:28 – 00:23:29] Introducer: would they?


[00:23:28 – 00:23:31] Amanda Jones: the website. At the show office, yes.


[00:23:30 – 00:23:34] Introducer: And the link to the website is in the description.


[00:23:33 – 00:23:42] Kate Lawson: There are also QR codes on the Oswestry Show posters, a couple of which are in the Lanyon Bowdler office windows as well.


[00:23:41 – 00:23:55] Amanda Jones: And there will be QR boards in all the car parks and at the bus stops and on the buses so that people can get the tickets on the QR code on show day.


[00:23:54 – 00:24:02] Introducer: Well, I’m very much looking forward to show day. to seeing everything that’s going to be happening and meeting lots of people.


[00:24:01 – 00:24:04] Kate Lawson: And fingers crossed for good weather.


[00:24:03 – 00:24:05] Introducer: That’s the one thing outside of your


[00:24:04 – 00:24:05] Amanda Jones: It’s


[00:24:04 – 00:24:06] Introducer: control.


[00:24:05 – 00:24:19] Amanda Jones: the one thing we can’t control is the weather. We hope for a dry day and we prepare for a wet day and hope that the sun will shine and look forward to seeing everybody at the show to come and enjoy a great day out.


[00:24:19 – 00:24:38] Kate Lawson: Thank you to Tanya and Kate and to our special guest David. If you have a legal issue you’d like me to put to our team to cover in an upcoming episode, please let me know by visiting lblaw.co.uk forward slash knowledge where you can search for all our podcasts. That’s lblaw.co.uk forward slash knowledge.


[00:24:37 – 00:24:42] David Kempster: That was the legal lounge from Lanyon Bowdler solicitors.