 The show first started in 1822, and was located at Edinburgh’s Canongate on a site now occupied by the Scottish Parliament.From this point until 1959 the show moved around the towns and cities of Scotland, in one of the RHASS’s eight electoral areas - Perth, Stirling, Strathclyde, Aberdeen, Lothian, Borders, Dumfries & Galloway and Highland.In 1960 the Ingliston site became the permanent home of the show, opening on 21 June 1960.