Suffolk at centre stage
Sep 08, 2021
3 minutes
ONE OF THE MANY sporting casualties of 2020 was the International Gundog League (IGL) Retriever Championship. This wasn’t the first time it had been cancelled — in 1967, it fell foul of an outbreak of another disease (foot and mouth), while it wasn’t held during World War I or II. Despite the former ending in 1918, it wasn’t until 1920 that it was held again, on the Crown Point Estate, near Norwich, the first year that spectators were admitted.
I can’t find any records of how many spectators went to watch that event,
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