ON THE

Held on Saturday 25^th July 1903

’Tis the Flower Show in Witton Park once again,

And many people have travelled by road and train

To see the grand Show, which has come forward with great interest,

Through the aid of the committee, who have done their very best.

Close by the Railway Station the Show field you’ll find,

You can go by Witton Park, or Woodside, whichever you feel inclined

The tents are something splendid which you all agree,

Every credit is due to the committee, who have erected them free.

The Wellesley Training Ship Band, has been engaged to play

At intervals among the audience here today

It will be splendid, and well worth anyone while

To see them march and play in the finest style.

Then there’s the foot handicap which most people like to see,

Everyone trying to find out who the winner will be,

Some good runners have entered bear, in mind,

So the winner may not be so easy to find.

Messrs. Richardson has come, and brought others too,

With his roundabouts and some things recently new,

They cause a great attraction, for they are all the go

With both young and old at a flower show.

Now after you’ve gone through all the tents you may be dry,

You can get a rest and refreshments close by,

There’s the Queen’s Head, the Ironworks, and the Vulcan Inn,

The George Inn, The Turf, and Welsh Harp with ale and gin.

If to any of these you happen to go, your orders they’ll attend,

And to oblige you in every way and comfort you may depend;

If you haven’t had time to shave through being rather late,

Just go to the hairdressers and they’ll shave you up-to-date.

Now if you happen to come the other way, by Woodside I mean,

There’s the Durham Ox, and the Witton Castle plainly to be seen.

Then there’s Stobart’s Arms, Puddlers Arms, and the Raby Hotel

All within easy reach of the Show field as well.

Excursions have been arranged for visitors to come,

To see what the subscribers and committee have done.

Many of the old standards will have come to see

The old place where the Ironworks once used to be.

It will remind some of them of bygone days,

The old-fashioned style and their weekly pays;

When they indulged in their beer after a hard day’s toil,

But many of their old mates now lie ‘neath the soil’.

With every success to the Show and subscribers too,

Also the committee, who has carried the Show through;

May everyone here today be well satisfied in every degree,

With Witton Park Show in the year of nineteen hundred and three.

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