Newport isle of wight cattle market
The Isle of Wight is the only place in the British Isles that has a Gilten Market. They kept it in insulated containers cooled by ice from the ice factory, and if they had bought any of the winning steers they would display the rosettes and prize cards in their windows. The first Fat Stock Exhibition was organised by the Isle of Wight Agricultural Society on Wednesday, 11 December, As the Society had held a ploughing match at Stone Farm, Blackwater, on 19 October, prizes for both the match and the Fat Stock Exhibition were awarded to the winners at the dinner by the Mayor of the old Newport Borough Council.
The event continued to be run by a Newport Borough Council committee with the Mayor acting as chairman and it was revived in after the First World War.
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After that, the Gilten Market was held annually until when for the second time, war disrupted life on the Island. In the market was revived again until when the B. E crisis and an outbreak of foot and mouth stopped the movement of cattle and closed markets.
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With the abolition of Newport Borough Council and the office of Mayor of Newport, the Committee decided to look into the possibility of the Gilten Market coming under the office of the High Sheriff of the County of the Isle of Wight.
The then High Sheriff agreed to this and the Market continued, surviving the termination of Newport as a Fatstock Certifications Centre in and the closing of Newport market in when it moved to Brickfields.
From to there was no Gilten Market because of the B. The Gilten Market Committee is made up of Island farmers and the event is organised by Southern Counties who run Salisbury and Shaftesbury markets.
Phil Legge, who is a blacksmith by trade, provides pens for four or five animals at the indoor-school at Brickfields and the entries are adjudicated each year by a different judge from the mainland with sponsors for every class. All the animals have to be weighed on the scales from the old Newport market and to compete, the steers must be under 30 months old and led on a rope.
In December more than two hundred cattle, plus sheep, were entered for the event and it was generally agreed that the quality of five steers was good enough for Smithfield market.
Besides the prize money, the owner of the winning Gilten Beast gets a good price for the animal at the auction afterwards and the presence of mainland bidders helps to increase the bidding. Last year the prize was won by Mike Denness who sold the steer to Hamilton Fine Foods.
But the highlight of the Gilten Market is, as it always has been, the gilding of the Gilten Beast and last year the High Sheriff, Lt. Following tradition, the annual dinner is held in January when a percentage of the dinner money, proceeds of a raffle and the revenue from entry fees etc.
Richard de Redvers, Lord of the Isle of Wight, who founded Newport, granted the town its first charter around and his plan of the town included three squares which for centuries served the town as market places.
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