WITH Newton Abbot Christmas Market recently celebrating its 100th show, we thought it fitting to delve back a few years to see the champion livestock from 1990 and 1984.

Newton Abbot Christmas Show from December 1984. Vice chairman of Newton Abbot Young Farmers Heather Slade with John Bellamy who were encouraging visitors to that year’s show to guess the weight of the donkey. (Editor’s note: And no, we don’t know what the weight was)
Newton Abbot Christmas Show from December 1984. Vice chairman of Newton Abbot Young Farmers Heather Slade with John Bellamy who were encouraging visitors to that year’s show to guess the weight of the donkey. (Editor’s note: And no, we don’t know what the weight was) (MDA Archive)

Nine year old David Vallance of Lower Whiddon Farm, Ashburton, was showing Limousin/South Devon Cross called Peter
Nine year old David Vallance of Lower Whiddon Farm, Ashburton, was showing Limousin/South Devon Cross called Peter (MDA Archive)

Newton Abbot Christmas Show from December 1984. Show champion Blonde d’Aquitaine cross Charolais heifer owned by Herbert Rew of Stokeham Barton
Newton Abbot Christmas Show from December 1984. Show champion Blonde d’Aquitaine cross Charolais heifer owned by Herbert Rew of Stokeham Barton (MDA Archive)

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