Blencathra Foxhounds, Cumbria - The John Peel Hunts

There had been a shepherd’s meeting at the top of High Street, and such meetings were invariably accompanied by sports and hunts. During the particular hunt in question a man named Dixon fell from Blea Water Crag, about 300 feet high, and miraculously broke no bones, although terribly bruised, for he struck several times against the rock and so checked his fall. When he came to the ground he scrambled on to his knees, cried out “Lads, t’fox is gane out at hee end; lig t’ dogs on and I’ll come syn” and then fell down insensible.

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DIARY DATES For 2012

Shows, Fairs & Events until the season starts again in October

Monday

28th May

Listen out for :: ‘Outfoxed: The Story of Hunting in Britain’

It will be on Radio 4 at 11am.

It will also last for 1 week on iplayer

June 3rd Ullswater Hound Show Stainton

June 9th Cumberland Show

June 12th Supporters Group meeting 7.30pm----Threlkeld Sports Pavilion

June 17th Ullswater Hound Show Brough

June 19th Lunesdale Terrier Show

June Queens 60th Jubilee Hog roast June details TBC

June 24th Ullswater Country Fair

July 6th Terrier and Lurcher Show

July 14th/15th West Cumbria Game Fair - Armathwaite Hall

July 22nd Coniston Country Fair

July 28th Lorton Show

July 29th Duck race at 2-00 pm River Caldew up valley from Mosedale

July 29th Ullswater Hound Show Staveley

Aug 7th Supporters Group meeting 7.30pm ----Threlkeld Sports Pavilion

Aug 11/12th Lowther Show

Aug 16th Rydal Hound Show

Aug 17th Ullswater Hound Show Bampton

Aug 22nd Threlkeld Sheep dog/Hound Show

Aug 27th Keswick Show

Sept 6th Westmorland Show

Oct 3rd Supporters Group meeting 7.30pm ----Threlkeld Sports Pavilion

Oct 12th Race Night 7-30 pm Keswick Golf Club

Oct 21st
Lunch 12-30 pm :: Venue Braithwaite Village Institute

Our Guest Speaker this year is - Lieutenant General Sir Barney White-Spunner

Lt Gen Sir Barney White-Spunner is the former head of the UK Field Army and currently Executive Chairman of the Countryside Alliance and Director of the Countryside Alliance Foundation. Kate Hoey MP, our guest speaker in 2011 remains as Chairman of the Board of the Countryside Alliance.

Barney is a writer and countryman with first-hand knowledge of farming and wide countryside interests. He lives in Dorset with his wife and three children, and is a long term supporter of all country sports. As well as being a regular contributor to The Field magazine he was a former editor of Baily’s Hunting Directory and President of the Association of Masters of Harriers and Beagles.

He has had a distinguished military career and was knighted in 2011. He commanded British forces in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq and then took over as the Army Commander in 2009. He left the Army in December 2011

Lt Gen Sir Barney White-Spunner meeting President Obama

Dec 5th Supporters Group meeting 7.30pm ----Threlkeld Sports Pavilion

Dec--Date & venue TBC Flower Demonstration

We were privileged to be invited across to Yorkshire for a couple of days

Many thanks to Hugh Cholmley for hosting the days meets & Best wishes to Mike Tipping on his retirement [& for securing & organising the invite]

Click on picture for 1st day in Yorkshire gallery