The Winter Fair in Wales

Jewellery for Christmas

Paul Wright Jewellery - 6 Metre Trade Stand!

Livestock prices reached new highs at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair last week with the sale of the champion pair of lambs for £3,400 each, the highest price ever paid for sheep at this event. The lambs were entered by breeders Michael and Heulwen Owens of Pontsian who claimed the supreme championship for the third time running. The winning lambs were purchased by Welsh Country Foods on behalf of Asda for one of their stores in the West Midlands.

The supreme champion beast, Tommy, a limousine steer was exhibited by Glyn Owens of Llanrhaeadr who officially opened the Winter Fair. It sold for £6,500 to the judge Tom Hughes, of Hughes Butchers, Anglesey.

Despite the desperately cold weather, which saw temperatures dropping to minus 7 degrees centigrade, mid afternoon attendance at the Winter Fair totalled 24,397, just 63 less than the full day figure last year.

Paul Wright Jewellery had prime position at the entrance to the new gift hall opposite the food festival. Sadly the doors to that entrance were left open for the duration of the show and the winter temperatures almost left both Paul and Wendy, who were in attendance both days, with hypothermia (a rapid, progressive mental and physical collapse that accompanies the lowering of body temperature!)

Never-the-less an enthusiastic crowd of hardy Welsh farmers certainly seemed to 'warm' to the extensive display of appealing silver and gold jewellery displayed on the new six metre jewellery stand that formed the most popular attraction featured in the new Gift Hall.