A royally good day out
catherine.austen@futurenet.com
WIMBLEDON, the FA Cup, the Ashes, the Open, the foxhound show at Peterborough. What do they have in common?
Tennis, football, cricket, golf and hunting all benefited from the Victorians’ zeal to organise and celebrate their noble pastimes, and the championships were all founded within just a few years of the first “Peterborough” in 1878. A foxhound show had been held in Yorkshire since 1859, masterminded by local MFH Tom Parrington, who later advised its larger southern successor.
The show has had several different venues, with similar layouts since its founding, all within the sound of the bells of Peterborough’s great Norman cathedral. After more than five decades at Alwalton, another venue
