Reliving a day at the Rand Easter Show

As a child, visiting the Rand Easter Show was always one of the highlights of the year. I’m talking way back in the day when the showgrounds were still in Braamfontein – the area which is now the west campus of Wits University.

Every year, we would spend the entire train ride debating whether we would take a short cut through the cemetery to the show grounds. I must admit, I was always extremely grateful when sanity prevailed and we stuck to the more trusted route following the road. Not that I was afraid, but I was the youngest in the group.

The first building as one entered the showgrounds, was the flower hall. Believe it or not, but back then the flower hall was one of the main attractions. Although just children, we would spend a good deal of time in that fantasy world of colour and aromas that seemed so very exotic. And there were loads of free samples, free tastings and competitions. By the time we got home – utterly exhausted – we had amassed so many posters and pamphlets and samples that we relived the show every day for the next week.

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