"A TRIUMPH over adversity" was the general verdict on the June 1952 Three Counties Show held at Hindlip near Worcester.

Within only days of the opening of the event, all the cattle, sheep and pig classes had to be cancelled because of a foot and mouth disease epidemic sweeping across England. An outbreak near Stratford-upon-Avon had brought the boundary of a Ministry of Agriculture cattle movement ban within just six miles of the Three Counties Show site.

Mr Glynne Hastings, the Show Secretary, was able to tell the Journal in the wake of the 1952 event: "We feel we have had the full support of the people living in the three counties, particularly Worcester. The success of the show has exceeded all expectations with a total of 40,483 visitors passing through the turnstiles, and on the financial side we have every hope of at least breaking even."