THE timings for this year’s Thame Festival Parade & Fete, this Saturday, June 16, are as follows:
Carnival starts at 12.30pm with a procession of walking and mobile displays from local organisations and businesses, starting at John Hampden school and parading down Thame High Street to Southern Road Recreation Ground where there will be a fete from around 1pm to 4.00pm. Here, throughout the afternoon, there wil be live music, a scouts bar-b-Q, refreshments, and a whole host of activities, many of which are absolutely free.
Look out for ThameNews.Net’s contribution to ‘1000 years of Oxfordshire’ around the town and in the Carnival, in the person of historic news broadcaster, Alan Myatt, World champion Town Crier.
For further information contact Julie Davies of Thame Festival Committee on 01844 213799. As part of the celebrations, this year the Thame Festival Committee and Thame Churches Together will be raising funds for Martin Gadd, a former student at Barley Hill and Lord Williams’s School who was paralysed from the waist down in a fall last year.
Photo: Alan Myatt, World champion Town Crier
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