Westleton Barrel Fair

News (published 24th August 2009)-

The date for next year's Westleton Barrel Fair has now been confirmed as Sunday 15th August 2010.

Photographs from this year's event are now available to view in the photo gallery. Also, make sure you find time to look at the BBC Suffolk photos on the BBC Suffolk website

Special thanks to SweetJunkie for their donation of sugar mice for our 'Splat the Rat' game. They were very popular! SweetJunkie are based in Harleston and stock a large selection of sugar mice, retro sweets and sugar free sweets.

It is great to see that the Barrel Fair has raced (down and up again!) to number seven in The Times best silly events list!

A long day ahead!

The Barrel Fair events started on Wednesday night with Doc Cox's music quiz. Almost eighty people turned up and took part in a great night. On Thursday evening there was a showing of the classic Hitchcock film 'The 39 Steps'. This took place on the village green,with a very pleasing turnout.

Not as easy as it looks!

The weekend's events started with  a children's disco on Saturday night, organised and run by Westleton's answer to John Peel, DJ Damian Evans.

This was followed by 'Westleton's Got Talent'. Nine acts took part, and all thoroughly entertained the audience. The acts were Hester Clutterbuck, Tom Williams, Ellie Dutton, Harry Jones, Julia Jones, Hannah Curtis, Ian Eames-Bayton, Michael Coombes and Shannon Cuthill. The closely fought competition was eventually won by Hannah Curtis, who took home the coveted trophy. The evening finished with a blistering performance from Westleton's very own band, The Travelling Nobodies.

A Travelling Nobody!

The Barrel Fair itself opened at eleven o'clock the next day, with an official opening by Rob Dunger from Radio Suffolk. He was ably assisted by Jim Homersham, the Westleton town crier, and this year's maid and squire, Mollie and Jim Shaw.  A great afternoon of racing took place, as well as some fantastic performances by a variety of singers and performers. The weather was beautiful throughout the day. For a full list of winners, please go to the 'Winners' page.

Although the final figure has yet to be confirmed, it looks as if the event has raised over £4000!

 Oyez, oyez, now hear this...

If you have any questions at all about the Westleton Barrel Fair (e.g.how to book a pitch, where it is, what is barrel racing, etc), please use the form on the 'Contact Us' page.  Also, if you are holding a family event in Suffolk this summer and would like it mentioned on this website, please forward us details and we will advertise it.

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