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| The Blandford Yuletide Festival 2011 was a great success & finished with a Christmas time bang ! |
Hello - just a quick post from me to you, just to let you know what a brilliant success this years Blandford Yuletide Festival has been tonight. The evening line up began with a local primary schools lantern parade, which started from the Co-op car park and proceeded through Blandford Town centre, up Salisbury Street and then 'round the block' and back down to Blandford / St Peter & St Paul Parish Church - the Stour Valley Brass Band and Shaftesbury Town Band merrily accompanied the Childrens Lantern parade. Father Christmas was at the Corn Exchange and there were also some fairground rides and plenty of market and craft stalls and quite a few local choral societies. The town centre as you would expect, was very very busy, it seems that people came from near and far to join in with Blandfords local Christmas time festivities. I have snapped plenty of pics of lots and lots of different folks tonight and I was pleasantly surprised that everyone was so agreeable to me taking photographs of them for this blog The Blandford Buzz, which I will share with you tomorrow and the next few days after that on this blog site - Anyway for the time being I shall bid you good night - I need my sleep... ahhh...(I'm yawning a big yawn)...so 'til I write & You read again... x