National Fruit Show 2018

National Fruit Show 2018

This year was the 85th Anniversary of this very important show which began in 1933 as the Marden and District Commercial Fruit Show, becoming the Marden Fruit Show Society in 1960 and then relaunched in 1999 as the National Fruit Show. At the show, which since 1992 has been held at the Kent Showground, Detling, the finest fruit produced in the UK is exhibited and where the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers annually awards medals for the most meritorious exhibit of Dessert Apples, Culinary Apples and PearsThere is a strong spirit of competition and the tender loving care which is required to produce such a high standard of award-winning produce must not be under estimated. For many years J A & N J Bardsley, River Farm, Staplehurst, Kent under the watchful eye of Mrs Annette Bardsley have consistently achieved success with their award-winning entries. This year was no exception and J A & N J Bardsley, must again be congratulated as this year’s recipients of the awards for the most meritorious exhibits of Culinary Apples and Pears.The fine weather over the two days of the show produced an abundance of Fruiterers with their families visiting the show. The Master and Renter Warden were in attendance with Past Masters, an Honorary Freeman, Liverymen together with an Apprentice and Journeyman.Chair of the National Fruit Show, Liveryman Sarah Calcutt very kindly donated some of the award-winning exhibits of apples and pears to the Fruiterers Company from which some of the fruit will form part of the presentation of Fruit to the Lord Mayor.