2-798-398 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bow-meeting at Pradoe, near Oswestry, 1844. Competitors at '...an elegant archery fete at Pradoe [in Shropshire], the delightful seat of the Hon. Thomas Kenyon, when the Royal British Bowmen made a very interesting display of their prowess...The shooting proceeded with vigour and animation, the ladies taking from target to target the distance of sixty yards, and the gentlemen one hundred. Strong and anxious was the interest excited whenever an arrow pierced near the bull's eye'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.