Friday, September 18, 2009
Heaviest gooseberry-world record set by Bryan
Nellist
WHITBY, UK -- During the Egton
Bridge Gooseberry Show
, Bryan
Nellist
, a 73-year-old amateur gardener, displayed
a 35 drams (2.19 oz or 62.0 grams) Woodpecker whopper-which
sets the new world record for the Heaviest
gooseberry
. 
Photo: Bryan with the world's
Heaviest
gooseberry
/ Photo by: Ceri Oakes
( enlarge
photo
)
Chairman of Egton Bridge Old Gooseberry
Show, Eric Preston, said people came from all over the country,
attending from Lancashire, Cheshire and Lincolnshire. This
is the first world record ever set at Egton Bridge and the
heaviest club berry grown there in more than 200 years.
Mathematicians have verified that Bryan
Nellist, of Egton Bridge, has smashed the 16-year-old Guinness
World Record for the Heaviest
gooseberry
held by Kelvin Archer for a gooseberry
weighing 61.04g.
Bryan Nellist now holds the world record
for the Heaviest
gooseberry
by a small margin, beating Kelvin Archer's
previous 1993 Guinness world record of a berry weighing in
at 34 drams 25 grains by just over two grains or 0.1 grams.
A former gamekeeper on the Egton estate,
Mr. Bryan Nellist
has been growing gooseberries for
more than half a century. He grows his world
record gooseberries
in the back garden and is a regular
champion at the village's famous Old Gooseberry Show, where
he was recently awarded the Harland Challenge Cup.
"I have been trying for 53 years to grow
'the big one' and it could have been even bigger.
"Growing a giant gooseberry like this is
a delicate process. There is nothing more heartbreaking than
waking up in the morning to discover your gooseberry has burst."
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Friday,
September 18, 2009
