MALVERN AUTUMN SHOW
Fri 26 – Sun 28 September 2025 –
VINTAGE VILLAGE AND RURAL PURSUITS
Visitors can enjoy a throwback to the good old days in the fabulous Vintage Village.
VINTAGE FUN FAIR
Enjoy a Vintage Funfair, including dodgems, a ferris wheel, hook a duck games, a vintage toy vehicle ride, a children’s carousel, tin can alley, a rifle range, funny mirrors, swingboats and coconut shy, plus a test your strength station and Waltzers. Please note, there is a surcharge for these activities.
VINTAGE MACHINERY
There are lots of interesting vintage machinery on display including pre-1940’s classic caravans as well as cars, tractors, bikes and commercial vehicles. In addition there is old fashioned garden machinery to browse and marvel at!
VINTAGE DANCE TENT
Relive the golden days at the Vintage Village in the Vintage Dance Tent, featuring live bands performing toe-tapping music throughout the long weekend.
Take part in one of the free dance lessons throughout the weekend and learn dances from the 40s and 50s.
You can also come dressed in your vintage finery and enter the ‘Best Dressed’ competition, or dress up in clothing from 1940s/50s at the show and take part in a ‘Parade by Decade’.
In 2024, Strictly Come Dancing’s Kevin Clifton showed off his skills in the tent while taking part in a live dance class for all to take part in!
There was also live music from the following bands:
WARTIME PUB
Perfectly recreated in all the trappings of the 1940s, the Wheat Sheaf will be the perfect place to while away the afternoon.
REENACTORS
Take the chance to chat to Land Girls, wartime Home Front volunteers, Soldiers and a Baker about what it was like during the war years.
RURAL CRAFTS AND FORGOTTEN SKILLS
The Rural Crafts and Forgotten Skills Area celebrates some of Britain’s most traditional activities. Visitors can learn from expert artisanal crafts people about some of the skills and pastimes which have survived over the years and continue to thrive today.
The list of exhibitors that came to the 2024 show is as follows:
- Sussex Trug Makers – Making the famous Sussex Trug Gardening Basket. Demonstrating making the South Down handles, rims and assembling trugs.
- Flax Processors – Demonstration (and exhibit); spinning with flax to make linen thread. Simple interactive actions to show the fibre. Examples of all stages of flax processing/linen production including modern uses of flax fibre. Exhibit of flax canoe and also Irish curragh.
STICK MAKING COMPETITION
The Rural Crafts Area is home to the British Stick-makers National Guild Competition, and the 17 classes attract entries from across England and Wales.
The classes feature exquisitely carved sticks, including decorated sticks, stag horn sticks and plain walking sticks and there are novice classes available for beginners.
There are over 150 sticks on display and visitors can also watch master craftsmen at work producing beautiful walking sticks and shepherding crooks.
FORESTRY
Watch as budding foresters hone their pole climbing skills as part of demonstrations, to prepare them for next year’s Royal Three Counties Show competitions.
The forestry area is also have chainsaw carving demonstrations. 
