ECCLESHALL FESTIVAL
The Future
A de-brief of this years festival took place at the library on Friday 25th July 2008 and the future of the Eccleshall Festival was discussed.
Saturday 14th to Sunday 29th June
Eccleshall Festival was a celebration of the town's talents, skills and businesses and was completely organised by Eccleshall people and businesses and open to visitors from the wider world.
This year the Festival was spread across 15
days and the programme included lots of events arranged by the various
groups within the town., including such things as quiz nights, bingo evenings,
music concerts, historical walks and boules sessions etc.
There was also a Flower Festival over three days in the Holy Trinity Church
from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd June, the grounds to Eccleshall Castle were
open to the public on Sunday 29th June and the traditional Victorian Street
Market was open from 10am until 4pm on Saturday 21st June.
FESTIVAL CONTACTS
The Victorian Street Market and
co-ordination of the
Eccleshall Festival rested in the hands of Peter Jones
01785 851024 or 851381 email:
peterwjones@btinternet.com
28The Burgage, Eccleshall, Staffs, ST21 6DR
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VICTORIAN COSTUME COMPETITION Saturday 21st June
For those people who come to the Festival’s Victorian Street Market dressed in Victorian costume there was a competition. There were prizes for adults and children, members of the public and stall holders. The costumes were judged during the morning of the Street Market. Sponsored by Heywoods Estate Agents
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David Brass
Town Crier for the day |
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Visitors enjoyed a quiet spot of deductive reasoning with the kids during the Festival Fortnight with our window competition. Many of the shops in the town centre had put an item in their window which did not belong to the shop, a shoe in a butchers for example. Small prizes were donated by the town's businesses for the entry with the most correct answers.
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STALL HOLDERS
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The monthly Farmers Market was open from 9.00am until 4.00pm on the car park at the rear of the Kings Arms Hotel in Stafford Street.
Farmers Market on the Kings Arms Hotel car park
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| David Batchelor and his hand made walking sticks | Wet and not very inviting outside McLeod's |
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Sean's first festival |
St John Ambulance girls on duty |
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| Old Victorians ( members of the Ecclian Society doing a roaring trade in second hand garden tools etc) | |
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| Its a fair cop officer | A real Victorian bunch |
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| Victorian dress prize winners with Town Crier David Brass | Stall holder fancy dress winner |
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THANK YOU The organisers would like to thank all those business who sponsored various events. Including Bethan Ward, Macleods, Short Cuts, Sweet Occasions, Little Monsters, Spencer's, Present Place, Sean Hirst, Stars News, Midland Counties Cooperative and Alton Towers.
We would also like to thank
everyone who helped in any way to stage the 2008 Festival |
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Looking back ..............................................
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Eccleshall Festival 2006
A selection of photographs in no particular order
from the Victorian Street Market held on Saturday 24th June 2006.
The sale of used garden implements by the Eccleshall in Bloom committee or preparations for the annual vintage lawn mower race?.
Sue and hubby from Sweet Occasions
The High Street library staff
Serendipity entertained in Holy Trinity Church
Teas to please - in the parish room with Gill
Pinney,
Anne Braithwaite and Brenda Howe.