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Carnival 2013 Friday August 16th : Prize Giving and Thanks

There were prizes galore – for Best Dressed House ( The Meaning family of Victoria Road), for Best Dressed Shop ( Frances and Laurence Mitchell of the High Street), for Best Miniature Garden, Best Painted Pebble, Treasure Hunt, Window Spotting, Crossword, Limerick….

Carnival 2013 Prize Giving on the Green

The crowd waited with bated breath……

Some prize winners were full of confidence, like Stella Taylor, who won the Best Miniature garden,’I’ve worked on it all week.’ Seen here with Anne Toms, who judged the competition, and has the Gallery in the High Street.

Carnival 2013 Friday August 16th : Prize Giving on the Green, Stella Taylor winner of Miniature Garden with Anne Toms

Others needed a little help.

Carnival 2013: Friday Carnival 2013 August 16th, Prize Giving on the Green, prize winner with help.

Carnival 2013 Friday August 16th : Prize Carnival 2013: Friday August 16th, Prize Giving on the Green, shy prize winner

Carnival 2013 Friday August 16th : Prize Giving on the Green, prize 15 Gemma

Carnival 2013 Friday August 16th : Prize Giving on the Green. Gemma Cowley

Carnival 2013 Prize Giving: Beth’s prize

No one was more excited than Beth Davies when she found out she’d won a prize.

The glass trophy for Best Dressed Shop was awarded to Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Mitchell, after escaping unscathed when the Mayor dropped it. It will be safer in their hands than in the Mayor’s. ‘Careful with that Steve…..’ as he dropped it.

Carnival 2013 Friday August 16th : Prize Giving on the Green Best Dressed Shop received by Frances Mitchell.

And finally there were very well earned thanks to those who worked so hard for so long, to make the Carnival Week such a success.

Carnival 2013 A Thank You kiss to Sue Langford for all her hard work.

Carnival 2013 Flowers to thank Sue Langford for all her hard work.

Carnival 2013: A ‘Thank You’ kiss to Sue Langford for all her hard work.

Flowers too!

The Chairman, Chris Waddington is thanked for all the hours and hours and hours he puts in to Carnival Events throughout the year – November 5th, Christmas Carols in the Square, Christmas Lunch, Pancake Day Race, Duck Race at Easter.

Carnival 2013 Prize Giving, Mayor Steve Cowley thanks Chris Waddington

See you at the Parade, lining up on the Green 2.45 Saturday! Bring your rain coats!

Sue Langford: Thorley holidays 1950s, 1960s

: Thorley and Upper Lee

Thorley from across the fields

Every holiday, the family would be sent to Granny Haigh’s at Bundys, until she got fed up with so many of us and my father bought Upper Lee. I have Granny’s notebooks, full of details of butterflies and insects, some of them you don’t see here now. She made a point of teaching us about them – we’d only listen for so long – but I can still identify any that come our way.

We could run around the fields, between here and Retreat ( now ‘Molehills’), with no one supervising us. There was one rule – you did have to wear your Wellingtons in the fields because of the adders. I’d see maybe two or so a year. I remember once, on my way to look for orchids, coming across an adder curled up in a spiral, rearing up with its head pulled back. I ran!

Going through the fields to Retreat was always a bit of a nightmare because of the young stock. The grownups always used to say, just keep going and if they run towards you, just make yourself as big as you can, and shout at them. They’ll go away. I wasn’t confident about that!

We spent a lot of time in Thorley Brook, paddling about, making up games.
Sue Langford nee Haigh b 1946

Sue Langford: Haigh family in Thorley, Wellow

Haigh brothers, Stanley, Paddy and Frank at Lee 1920s : Photo Sue Langford

Mig grew up at The Retreat, just across the fields from us, where our fathers had spent time as boys. They used to go off in the donkey trap (known as the dog cart) to Bouldnor to catch butterflies and swim.

Sue Langford: Thorley Lodge 1950s – 2000s

Thorley Lodge

My sister Andra (Nan) and brother Peter, were both born in Thorley Lodge.
Dr. Drummond made the national press the night Nan was born, because whilst my mother was giving birth here, my cousin Frances ( Mig) was being born to my aunt who was staying at Granny Haigh’s in Wellow. Dr. Drummond spent the night going to and fro between my mother and my aunt, a half a mile journey between his two patients.

Haigh children 1952

Nan and Peter, Mig and Sue nee Haigh 2006 Photos from Sue Langford

Sue Langford: Thorley game

Brown hares on farmland

Our father would go out shooting – his passion, but it was generally for the pot. When I was about 10 my father took me out shooting with him. I’d been taught how to shoot, and when a hare sprang up, I followed round, but just couldn’t shoot. My father never insisted or made me go out again; he accepted that it wasn’t for me, – but I ‘m happy to clean and cook game.
Sue Langford nee Haigh b 1946

Sue Langford : Thorley holidays 1950s

Thorley from fields above Upper Lee