ON Wednesday, August 14, Camelford Agricultural show held their Handicraft and Horticultural section at Otterham and St Juliot Hall.

The hall and show benches were packed full of wonderful exhibits made by Adults and Children, over 100 exhibitors entered and showed off their talents from art, and photography to handcraft, cooking and growing wonderful garden flowers and vegetables.

The chosen set of judges had a tough morning of judging to choose ‘the best of the best’ in order to select their prize winners.

Elaine Reynolds, the section secretary, chose a theme of celebrating 200 years of RNLI through the show where children produce lighthouse, sea creatures and lifeboat pictures, which was mirrored in the adult section as well with beautiful oil and watercolour paintings of lifeboats and floral displays with the RNLI theme.

She said: “Although we are an agriculturally based show, our coastline is all around us and it is important to celebrate the work of the RNLI.

“We had 44 children exhibiting this year and their clever ideas and work was wonderful to see, this always amazes me how wonderful the children's section is, always so colourful and creative each year.

“The cookery had large entries in each class, with wonderful cakes, pastries and new sections this year for honey and eggs.

“After such an unsettled year of weather It was fantastic to see the show benches full of garden flowers and good quality vegetables!“

The Camelford and District Agricultural Show, Chairwoman Jackie Burnard, said she was delighted with the support that has been shown and expressed her hopes, that next year the full show with livestock, horses, trade stands and entertainment will return.

She added: “After lots of fundraising events and support we are heading in the right direction financially, to hold the show again in 2025.”