The Royal Show season is here and we can’t wait to go – rides, entertainment, and show bags, oh my!

So we thought we’d take you on a trip down memory lane. We start with Australia’s very first Royal Shows (the Hobart Royal Show holds that honor, kicking of in 1822, one year before the first Royal Easter Show in Sydney in 1823), where exhibits included the best manure samples, ‘cutting-edge’ technology included fancy toys like telephones and electric thief detectors, and show grounds were maintained by flocks of sheep; and go all the way to today, where the Sydney Royal Easter Show gets up to 769,000 attendees, the Ekka has over 321,000 competition entries, and the Royal Adelaide Show sells 70,000 buckets of hot chips.

Take a walk down memory lane with us!