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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]"The Moorgreen Floral and Horticultural Society held their first Annual show at "Mrs Smedleys, the Horse and Groom Moor green" in September 1849 and prizes were awarded for Dahlias, Vegetables, Fruit and Flowers. It was reported in the Nottingham Journal that the exhibits were "most splendid" with the exception of the Dahlias which had been affected by early frosts. In 1853 the Greasley and Selston Agricultural Association opened with a ploughing match followed by a "show of stock and roots". Later in the same day Mrs Smedley of the Horse and Groom provided dinner for sixty members and friends. At the same show awards were also presented as follows: "10 shillings to Frank Mellors for being the labourer who had brought up the largest family without parochial relief"-he had 12 children. £1 was also awarded to Charles Severn who had worked for Mr J. Godber for upwards of 30 years and was the labourer who had lived longest on the same farm. So possibly the name "Moorgreen Show" comes not only from the place it was first held, but from The Moorgreen Floral and Horticultural Society who were the founders of it.[/quote]
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Moorgreen Show
replied on: 9/7/2005 9:25:53 PM

"The Moorgreen Floral and Horticultural Society held their first Annual show at "Mrs Smedleys, the Horse and Groom Moor green" in September 1849 and prizes were awarded for Dahlias, Vegetables, Fruit and Flowers. It was reported in the Nottingham Journal that the exhibits were "most splendid" with the exception of the Dahlias which had been affected by early frosts.
In 1853 the Greasley and Selston Agricultural Association opened with a ploughing match followed by a "show of stock and roots". Later in the same day Mrs Smedley of the Horse and Groom provided dinner for sixty members and friends. At the same show awards were also presented as follows:
"10 shillings to Frank Mellors for being the labourer who had brought up the largest family without parochial relief"-he had 12 children.
£1 was also awarded to Charles Severn who had worked for Mr J. Godber for upwards of 30 years and was the labourer who had lived longest on the same farm.
So possibly the name "Moorgreen Show" comes not only from the place it was first held, but from The Moorgreen Floral and Horticultural Society who were the founders of it.

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