With several major Collie kennels already established
in the Yorkshire area, a group of enthusiasts, including
Mrs V. Latham ‘Lathamholm’. Mr George Dransfield
‘Poppystown’ and Mr N. Abell ‘Normansfield’, started to agitate
for a Collie Club capable of serving the region. Despite a lack of
enthusiasm from existing clubs, supporters eventually enlisted the help of the Lancashire and Cheshire Collie Club and the Yorkshire Collie Club became a reality in 1952, with Mr A. L. Robinson holding the secretarial post
for the first year.

 

Specialising in small members only shows, the first
attracting just 56 entries from 16 Collies for
Miss P. M. Grey ‘Ladypark’ to run the rule over,
meant progress was slow in the early stages,
but before the end of the decade several of
the more prominent Yorkshire breeders and
exhibitors, having joined the committee, began
to steering the club in the direction of larger
more national events.

 

The dedication of this more go ahead committee was
quickly rewarded by the Kennel Club who granted
the Yorkshire Collie Club Championship Status
for Rough Collies in 1963, an honour which has since
been established as an annual event. Staged at the
always popular Corn Exchange, Leeds the Yorkshire
Collie Club’s first show set the tone for future vents.
Judged by the popular Collie specialist Mr Jim Broderick
‘Shearcliffe’ the show attracted 94 Collies making 218 entries.
In 1987, the last time the Yorkshire Collie Club held their
Championship Show at the Corn Exchange, Leeds the show drew an entry of 495 from 315 Rough Collies, the judges on this occasion being Mrs Vera Hickson ‘Bririch’ doing dogs and Mrs Norma Lister ‘Abbestone’ taking on the bitches.

 

In 1968 the Yorkshire Collie Club broke new ground publishing the first of its ‘Yorkshire Collie Club Handbooks’ initially edited by a team
including Mrs Audrey Chatfield, ‘Dunsinane’ Mr Gordon Duncan
‘Brettonpark’ and Mr Jack Wigglesworth ‘Sandiacre’. From the
outset these, now much sort after, handbooks were dated for the
previous year, and contained a mixture of information including
show results and articles of interest to both novice and experienced
fanciers, all funded by kennel advertisements. Published for twenty one
years this library of handbooks is frequently the only permanent record
we now have of the show and breeding stock of the day.

The Yorkshire Collie Club’s current aims and objectives are:

To promote and encourage the breeding of Rough Collies.

To support and give exhibitions of Rough Collies.

Protect and advance in every legitimate way the interests of
the Breed and of the Members of the Club.

 

Membership is open to all.

For more details about what the Yorkshire Collie Club has to offer
contact the Secretary or visit the Yorkshire Collie Club official web-site.