West Wilts Show 2009


West Wilts Show 2009

  • Children from Walwayne Court Primary School in Trowbridge made flags for the Royal visit
  • There was plenty of flag waving as children waited excitedly for Camilla's arrival
  • Camilla chatted with schoolchildren
  • Camilla met onlookers, many of whom were taking photographs
  • A beaming Camilla makes her way past the crowds to the bandstand
  • Taking to the bandstand stage, Camilla declares the West Wilts Show open
  • West Wilts Show chairman escorted the Duchess around the showground
  • Camilla met civic leaders from across Wiltshire
  • Camilla meets the mayor of Leer, Wolfgang Kellner. Photo: Mike Prior
  • The Wiltshire Bobby Van Trust, of which Camilla is a patron, gave her a pin badge
  • Camilla is enchanted by pottery at the White Horse Pottery stand, and talks to 17-year-old Nathan Pictor, who helps out at the business, run by his dad Trevor
  • Camilla labels her darts efforts a flop
  • Camilla buys a pair of denim striped dungarees from Maxine Maurissen, who runs Giraffe and Me in Bradford on Avon
  • Band Inconvenient Truth took to the stage on Thursday
  • Band Inconvenient Truth took to the stage on Thursday
  • John and Anne Gill of Relate Mid Wiltshire
  • Families enjoy the show
  • Families enjoy the show
  • Tiger face Luke Waldron, three, and his auntie Julie Godfrey
  • Caribbean cooking with Sonia Carr, Hyacinth Palmer, Ina Donaldson and Sammy Jones
  • Brew's ready... Doris Harden and Birgit Hingst-Lubben from Leer, serve up some East Frisian tea
  • Taking no chances with the weather... Sue Izzard from the Wiltshire Bobby Van Trust
  • Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service show what happens when a chip pan catches fire
  • Emily Cole and Jennie James (right) on the Age Concern stand

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West Wilts Show 2009

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall opened the three-day West Wilts Show in Trowbridge Park on Thursday, July 23. Camilla then toured the showground and met with a host of charities, organisations and businesses from the district, who are taking part in the flagship biennial event.

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