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Gatley Festival 2009
In memory of Dave Pearce 1942 - 2009 Saturday 27th June to Sunday 5th July. Gatley Carnival Parade and Fun Day Sunday 5th July Gatley Festival 2009 is here!! Welcome to the Gatley Festival, we hope you will enjoy the varied programme on offer. There’s something for everyone between Sat 27th June and Sun 5th July and we hope you will turn out to support the events and help raise funds for local groups worthy causes. We also hope you enjoy the village which has been especially decorated with bunting and flags to get us in the Festival mood The first Gatley Festival was held in 1922 and the first rose queen Gatley Festival in 1932. It was originally called the YMCA Gatley Festival but the cost of the parade became so expensive that they had to change to a different style event. The main cost of the festival in the 20's was ....the Jazz Bands! The 2009 Gatley Festival offers a varied programmed of events, something for all taste and all ages and many events for the whole family to enjoy. From sporting activities, nature walk, art display, traditional morris dancing, tug of war, beer festival, music, quiz nights. And if all that isn't enough ,keeping up the tradition, this year the Festival culminates on Sunday 5th July with the Gatley Carnival winding its way through the streets of Gatley from 12.45pm, the carnival parade is a magical, musical, colourful, fun family day out and is not to be missed. But to get things going join “The Ideal New Orleans Jazz Band” performing on the pavement area of Gatley Road from 12.40pm. After the carnival the fun moves onto the fields at Gatley Hill house from 1.30pm for Gatley Festival Fun Day with an afternoon of family entertainment awaits you, including on a wide variety of stalls and fairground and the crowning of Stephanie ,the Gatley Festival Queen Thanks to all our sponsors for making this possible! Enjoy!! Jayne, Colin, Paul, May, Giles, Valarie, Jim, Ujjal, Malcolm & Emma The Festival Committee would like to thank the people at WebGuild Media web design for kindly donating this website and the web space to our festival and a very special thank you to Nigel for all his hard work and help. |
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