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The History of the BPA:
Four more breeds join NPBA
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Essex |
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Gloucestershire Old Spots |
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Large Black female champion
at the Oxford Royal Show 1950 |
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Welsh best smallholders Pig
at the Cambridge Royal Show 1951 |
As the industry returned to peacetime production, more breed
societies became members of the association. The Large Black,
Gloucestershire Old Spots and Welsh breeds all joined the ranks and
towards the end of the 1950s the Essex breed followed suit. In 1967
the Essex and Wessex breeds were merged to create the British
Saddleback.
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The first Gazette
advertisement for British Saddleback in 1968 featured
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Royal Show breed champion |
All of these breeds were then, by reason of NPBA membership,
subjected to the association's official standards of excellence
drawn up to ensure that animals that would be used to produce the
stock for commercial producers were all of a recognised quality. |
