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To mark The Game Fair’s 65th anniversary, we have compiled a fun list of 65 things you may not know about the festival of the great British Countryside. This year, the hugely popular event is being held 28-30 July at Ragley Hall in Warwickshire. The event was originally co-founded by Colonel Sir John Ruggles-Brise, president of the Country Land Association (now the Country Land & Business Association) and Nigel Gray, a senior advisory consultant at the Imperial Chemical Industries Game Research Station, a forerunner for the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust. From 1958-2016, the event was known as ‘The CLA Game Fair’ while it was run by the CLA. It is now run by The National Game Fair and known simply as The Game Fair. The first ever Game Fair was held at Stetchworth Park in East Cambridgeshire with a budget of just £500, but it overran by £300. Entrance charges at the first Game Fair were modest; two shillings and sixpence per person (half-price for children, free for