RECORD CROWDS FOR THE TROSH – Sunday September 14th

After last year’s terrible weather the Ingworth Trosh (although now Erpingham/Colby way) was blessed with no rain and a smattering of sunshine.

This year the Trosh supported no less than three threshers (two Ransomes and one John Deere American thresher) which must be a record all in one place. They threshed wheat and baled straw all afternoon much to the delight of everyone there. This alongside two traction engines in full steam, multiple vintage tractors both static and ploughing, classic cars, and an enormous modern combine and beet harvester for comparison.

The rural theme continued with an impressive display of sheep shearing and then a Fun Dog Show. Every size and shape of dog imaginable and all so well behaved! Everything from ‘A Bad Hair Day’ (for the scruffiest dog) to that ‘Most like its Owner’.

Children’s fun rides, and owls and other birds of prey provided fun for all the family as well as a plentiful supply of stalls and displays and a large refreshment tent.

Erpingham Church next year is commemorating the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt when Sir Thomas Erpingham led the long bow archers to certain victory and on this weekend next year (i.e. 12th and 13 September) there will be a spectacular Medieval Pageant on fields near the church, so an archer from the Black Knight Historical was there to talk to people about that and medieval archery. The Trosh will still take place in 2015, most probably on the following weekend.

Thanks must go to all those  people who put in so much time, effort and money to make the Trosh such a success this year, but a special thanks to Alan Witham who is most instrumental in organising the event year on year and to the Alston family for very generously letting us borrow their fields.

The Trosh raised about £6,400 for the upkeep of the 3 medieval churches of Alby, Ingworth and Erpingham.