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In Pictures: Echt Show through the decades

by Callum Main
13/07/2018, 10:00 am Updated: 13/07/2018, 10:28 am
Barry Paterson, 9, of Cairndale Croft, Sauchen, with his pet Limousin cross Charolais calf Betty Boo
Barry Paterson, 9, of Cairndale Croft, Sauchen, with his pet Limousin cross Charolais calf Betty Boo

To coincide with this weekend’s Echt Show we’ve searched our archives for some of our favourite images of the event taken over the past few decades.

Stockman Gibby Scott with his Simmental bull owned by Sir Denis Mountain, Delfur Farms, Rothes, Moray. The Simmental went on to win the Overall Champion title at the show
Karen, left, 7, and Hazel Watt, 8, daughters of Echt Show president Ian Watt, with Hereford cross Friesian calves
Malcolm Ingram, 6, of Easter Mains Cottage, and Jamie Maddoch, 12, Wellside, both Kingswells, as cavalryman and Indian, on ponies taking part in a fancy dress parade
Beverly Sharp, 2, from Castleton, King Edward, with two-year-old filly Baden Scoth Bijou
John McIrvine junior, of Balblythe, Strachan, exhibiting the overall sheep champion, a Border Leicester two-crop ewe
Derek Burnett, from Aberdeen, being dragged along the ground after falling from a pony during the show. Thankfully, he was unhurt
Preparing horse jumps for the show are Jim Taylor (left), from Garlogie, his son, James, 7, and Eion Lobban, from Aberdeen
Barry Paterson, 9, of Cairndale Croft, Sauchen, with his pet Limousin cross Charolais calf Betty Boo
Fiona Mackinnon, 11, of East Bainamoon Farm, Grange, near Keith, who the Auchlea Trophy for the best junior stock-person taking part in the show
Judges and committee members tucking into some of the offerings judged at the show
Catherine (left), 8, and Fiona, 12, Mackinnon, of Wester Lochagan, Banff, with their Jersey cows
Show president Pat Kemp’s 16-year-old son Peter with a string of rosettes the family won at the event
Stewart Douglas, 8, of Little Clinterty, Kinellar, was tired out after taking on the role of mum for cross- Hereford calf Rose, which had been rejected by its mother
Crowds at the Pleasure Park event watching judging in the champion cross cattle section