Surrey BKA Honey Show, Saturday 8th October
This very pleasant event took place at Reigate Division’s Henfold Apiary and was enjoyed by all. Some of our members entered various items and a list of successes is give below. It is worth pointing out that there is a cup – The Vincent Challenge Cup – awarded to the Surrey Division that gains the most points. Weybridge came second in 2021 and again this year. There are some dedicated and extremely successful entrants from Reigate. This year they had 137 points to our 67, so there was a big gap between their first position and our second, but wouldn’t it be good to beat them? How about trying in 2023?
Results in alphabetical order of entrants:
(VHC = Very Highly Commended C = Commended)
| Geoff Cooper | VHC | Comb suitable for extraction |
| Marion Cooper | 2nd | Honey biscuits |
| 2nd | Lemon honey cake | |
| 3rd | Honey fruit cake | |
| Lisa Davis | 2nd | Honey & beeswax products |
| Andrew Halstead | 1st | Two jars medium honey |
| VHC | Two jars set honey | |
| Jane Hunter | 3rd | Honey biscuits |
| 3rd | Two beeswax candles | |
| VHC | Honey fruit cake | |
| VHC | Black and white photo | |
| David Parker | 1st | Two jars dark honey |
| 1st | Two cut comb containers (Colman Cup) | |
| 3rd | Tow jars set honey | |
| 3rd | Composite display of four items | |
| C | Comb suitable for extraction |
National Honey Show, 27th – 29th October
Results for Weybridge Division in alphabetical order of entrants:
(VHC = Very Highly Commended C = Commended)
| Geoff Cooper | 2nd | Frame for extraction (Surrey member) |
| Marion Cooper | 1st | Honey biscuits |
| 1st | Container of liquid honey | |
| 2nd | Honey sultana and cherry cake | |
| 3rd | Skep | |
| C | Date cake | |
| Mather Cup (Surrey member with most points in National classes) | ||
| Andrew Halstead | VHC | Two jars set honey (Surrey member) |
| VHC | One jar light or medium honey (Surrey member) | |
| Mark Hamilton | 1st | Tow jars medium honey (Surrey member) |
| 1st | One jar light/medium honey (Surrey member) | |
| 1st | Two containers cut comb, free from ling (Surrey member) | |
| 2nd | Two containers cut comb, free from ling (NHS class) | |
| 2nd | Two jars liquid honey (Surrey member) | |
| 3rd | Container of honey, free from ling (National class) | |
| HC | One piece of beeswax (NHS class) | |
| C | Six 28g beeswax blocks (Gift class) | |
| Jonathan Kernan | 1st | Two jars light honey (Open class) |
| (Mrs BW Hamlin cup – best in Classes 110-115) | ||
| 1st | Two jars liquid honey (Surrey member) (Egerton Smythe cup) | |
| 2nd | Two jars liquid honey (Open class) | |
| 2nd | Two jars medium honey (Surrey member) | |
| David Parker | 1st | Frame for extraction (Surrey member) (Hood Chalice) |
| 1st | Two jars dark honey (Surrey member) | |
| 2nd | Two containers cut comb, free from ling (Surrey member) | |
| 2nd | Two moulded candles (Surrey member) | |
| VHC | Two containers cut comb, free from ling (NHS class) |
Congratulations to us all! Please let me know of any errors or omissions and I will put corrections in the December Newsletter.
Thanks to Marion for the time she spent in sifting this from multiple pages of information.