BYGONE BALMORALS: Mrs Lindsay Brooke opens show for her busy husband
The opening day of the 124th Balmoral Show in May 1991 was officially opened by Mrs Lindsay Brooke, the wife of Sir Peter Brooke, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
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Esther Wilson from Armagh with Bellringer Two, the champion Shorthorn at the Balmoral Show in May 1991. The cow was owned by Tommy Irwin of Fintona. Picture: News Letter/Farming Life archives
Mrs Brooke breezed in to the Department of Agriculture stand at 11.30am to present an award to Bangor’s Clandeboye Estate from the Royal Forestry Society, “which has branches all over the place,” quipped Geoff Hill, the News Letter’s correspondent at the show.
The sound of baaing newborns can be heard as I approach the barn where shepherdess Zoe Colville farms in Kent. ‘Oh my God, it’s so amazing to see another human!’ she tells me enthusiastically.
By the time I’m inside sitting on a hay bale, the ridiculously cute lambs are making a deafening din as they fight for Zoe’s attention, desperate to be picked out of their pen and cuddled.
With her long, strawberry-blonde hair pulled back and her overalls caked in mud, she apologises for her unkempt appearance and explains she’s been up all night helping a ewe deliver triplets.
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