WAGS Autumn Show 8 September 2012

What a great show and what great weather! Thank you to all those who helped with the show, both before and on the day. You are all very much appreciated believe me! Thanks also to all our judges who give up their time to share their expertise, and to the Mayor, Ros Lester, for handing out the prizes.

Also a big thank you to our kind sponsors who help WAGS to cover some of the costs of staging the show, please give them all a round of applause:

Our Major Sponsors:  Champions and Rowse Honey

Sponsor of the Floral Art Section:  Keri Harvey The Florists

Sponsors of individual Classes, Trophies & Children’s Prizes:

FeetFirst; Lesters Estate Agency; Wallingford Bookshop; Pettits and Down-To-Earth for their donations to our raffle

I thoroughly enjoyed the day and hope that all those who took part, and those who came to see their efforts, enjoyed themselves too. 

Picking out a few of the trophy winners, Jean and Antonio Teles again excelled themselves, as did Eve Hodgson for her Floral Art. William and Peter Woodward were awarded the cup for “Best Family Effort” which I hope they enjoyed! Finally, well done to Fir Tree Junior School for winning the Novice Top Gardener Cup – that was the cup which first got me into exhibiting.

We are an allotments and gardens society, and the vegetable and flower entries were of a very high standard, but we also have many other classes in the show which had really high-quality entries this year – stunning photography, delicious baking and jams, talented art and crafts.

In the children’s section there was a class “jam tarts decorated with a Royal theme” which caught my eye. The children had been really creative and there were some great entries.

Thanks again to everyone involved, you were all fab. And all you WAGS members out there, I look forward to seeing you on Sept 14^th 2013.

Sandra Halstead

Show Secretary

We hope to load up some photographs soon; meanwhile here is the list of Trophy Winners. 

Wallingford Allotments and Gardens Society

Autumn Show 2012

Trophy Results

Trophy		Section	Exhibitor
The Bill Stickley Trophy	W.A.G.S. Top Gardener		Peter Willis
The Talbot Trophy	W.A.G.S. Novice Top Gardener		Fir Tree Junior School
The President’s Cup	Vegetables (members only)		Sandra Halstead
Jim Purvey Memorial Trophy	Best in Show – Vegetables		William Woodward
The Slade Memorial Bowl	Flowers (open)		William Woodward
The Vice President’s Cup	Flowers (members only)		Tom Buckingham
The Joe Gniadek Cup	Best in Show – Flowers		Eve Hodgson
The W.A.G.S. Cup	Pot Plants (members only)		Sandra Halstead
The Members Trophy	Fruit (members only)		Jean Teles
The Peter Hallett Memorial Bowl	Best in Show – Fruit		Jean Teles
The Arthur Shepherd Trophy	Specialities (open)		Gwen Guppy
The Johnstone Cup	Wine (open)		Gordon Spencer
The Bob Burrell Memorial Trophy	Length & Weight (members)		Jean Teles
The Macmower Trophy	Heaviest Four Onions		Tom Buckingham
The Audrey Bosley Trophy	Children 5 to 8 years – 1st		Harry Freeland
£3 book token	Children 5 to 8 years – 2nd		Charlie Freeland
£2 book token	Children 5 to 8 years – 3nd		-
Lilian & William Wells Mem. Trophy	Children 9 to 12 years – 1st		Liberty Spencer-Cosford
£3 book token	Children 9 to 12 years – 2nd		Matilda Whitehead
£2 book token	Children 9 to 12 years – 3rd		Grace Freeland
The Floral Art Cup	Floral Art (open)		Eve Hodgson
The Mayoress’ Trophy	Container Gardening (open)		Michael Tolman
Commemorative Plaque	Tastiest Tomato		Sandra Halstead
Commemorative Plaque	Most Scented Rose		Richard Guppy
The Craft Cup	Art & Craft (open)		Moya Lee
The Latter Trophy	Photography (open)		Pat Collier
The Founders’ Cup	Secretary's Choice for Best Effort		Gwen Guppy
The Mayor’s Trophy	Best Family Effort		Woodward Family
RHS Banksian Medal	Most Prize Money (classes A,B,C,E + H)		Sandra Halstead
Ben Buckingham Memorial Cup	Highest Total Points (in all classes)		Jean Teles
The Eddie Small Shield	Best in Show (members only classes)		Jean Teles
Wallingford Town Council Allotment Shield	Best Kept Allotment		Nadine Mitschunas

08 September 2012