Midsomer Norton Fayre Day

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Saturday 12th July 2014,12-5pm

A day of celebration for the whole community!

Maypole Festival, Skate Jam, Town Show, Art Exhibition, Duck Race, Live Music, Community Stalls, Big Gig, Dance Displays and much, much more!

All at Gullock Tyning & Adventure Play Park

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It’s wonderful that so many community groups have worked together to revive Midsomer Norton Fayre Day – based on the centuries old event resulting from our Royal Charter of 1248. I sincerely hope that this year will be the first of many events and that we can re-establish the tradition.

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Opening with a Duck Race at 12 noon and closing with the Town Show presentation at 4.30pm, the Community Trust has organised a fantastic day.

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the Duck Race on the River Somer to the Big Gig at Midsomer Norton Rugby Club.

Here’s a taste of what’s in store: There will be a Maypole Festival, Skate Jam, Town Show, Art Exhibition, Massive Model Building Workshop, Victoriana Tea Room, Community Stalls, Street Organ, Punch & Judy, Brass Band and much, much more.

On behalf of Midsomer Norton Town Council, which is sponsoring this year’s event, I’d like to thank the Community Trust and local groups for all their hard work organising this event. I hope you have a wonderful day.

Cllr Paul Myers Mayor of Midsomer Norton

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HISTORY OF MIDSOMER NORTON FAYRE DAY A Royal Charter for a Fayre was granted to Hugh De Vivonia who held the manor at Midsomer Norton in 1248 for a fayre to be held for three days from the Eve of the Feast of St John the Baptist.

By 1357 a further reference is made to Reginald fitz Herbert holding “a quarter of a fair on the Nativity of St John the Baptist this being mid-summers’ day”.

However, most local people will remember Midsomer Norton Fayre day as being 25th

April and it is not known when or why the date moved.

From medieval times to at least 1910, the fair operated more as a cattle fair, where dairy cows were sold and sheep penned from The Island as far as Stone’s Cross.

Horses were sold outside The Hollies.

However, by the end of the 19th century the entertainment element began to take over in the form of a steam-driven ‘Fun Fair’.

It was presumably for this reason that the Highway Committee recommended in 1892 that the fair be held in a field. The fair seems to have caused much annoyance to the shop trade as well as to traffic.

In 1893 a compromise was eventually reached whereby the street could be used, but that the surveyor was to ‘receive the tolls for the shows which visit this fair to be held at Norton the 25th inst’. On this occasion the surveyor was able to collect £5.4s.0d from the tolls at the fair.

Nevertheless, an application was made to the Duchy to view the original provision of the fair charter in June 1895 and in 1911 new arrangements were made.

Although the cattle fair seems to have disappeared sometime after the Great War (1918), the fun fair continued to flourish, and in 1921 was extended from one to two days.

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However, in February 1961the then Norton Radstock Town Council killed the 700 year old event by refusing to grant it permission to take place in the High Street. A new site was offered in the field adjoining the Hillside Avenue housing site, but it was eventually held elsewhere. Later venues included the car park at West Clewes on West Hill Gardens Recreation Ground, but with its centuries-old link with the centre of Midsomer Norton severed, the fair died an ignominious death.

Midsomer Norton Fayre is a free, open access community based event which aims to attract in the region of 3,000 local residents, depending on the weather and other community activities being held in the surrounding area.

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PROGRAMME OF EVENTS The Fayre will commence at 12 Noon with:

12:30pm ★ Town Show opens in the marquee

★ Duck Race outside the Town Hall ★ Children’s Maypole Procession to Gullock Tyning ★ Skate Jam registration opens and

general use ★ Community Stalls open ★ Kidsrome Farm opens ★ Steggfest in the Town Hall with

bands playing all day

1.00pm ★ Skate Jam begins in the Skate Park ★ Model building with WPA in the Adventure Play Park ★ Balloon modelling and

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12:15pm ★ Maypole Festival Commences

2.00pm ★ Susan Hill Dance Performance

1.30pm ★ Punch & Judy Show

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2.30pm ★ Midsomer Theatre Company ★ Punch & Judy Show 3.00pm ★ Avon Dance Academy Performance ★ Brass Band Performance

4.00pm Grand Presentation in the Marquee ★ Town Show ★ Skate Jam 5.00pm ★ The Big Gig first band at Midsomer Norton Rugby Club 5.30pm - Close Times shown in the programme are approximate only and subject to change. Please see local press and listen to announcements on the day.

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ACTIVITIES Punch & Judy show Farm Animals Balloon Modelling St John Ambulance Craft Workshops Face Painting Drop in Music Workshop History Talks Future of the town exhibition DISPLAYS Midsomer Theatre Company Susan Hill School of Dance Tap Dance Display

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MIDSOMER NORTON COMMUNITY TRUST The Midsomer Norton Community Trust was founded in June 2014 to promote community activity in the town by running community buildings and spaces, putting on events and activities and working to support local voluntary organisations in the town.

The Trust is working closely with the Sarah Ann Trust which has run the Town Hall and the Orchard Recreations Community Association which runs the Orchard Hall to secure long term leases from B&NES. In its first year the Trust has been very active running over 70 events and activities at various venues in the town which have attracted over 3000 people. A range of live

music performances has been complemented by 30 cinema screenings at the Town Hall.

These range from unique opportunities to see classics such as It’s A Wonderful Life on the big screen to the biggest blockbuster films of the last 12 months such as Despicable Me 2, Frozen, Gravity and 12 Years A Slave.

This has all been managed by the original steering group formed of volunteers which has developed into a dedicated board of trustees, who work alongside Alex Davis, the Community Development Manager to tackle the challenges of managing community buildings and developing the range of events that it offers people in the town and surrounding areas.

More and more people in our town know what’s going on thanks to a promotional campaign based on a combination of a membership scheme, use of social media and the new app alongside traditional posters and mailers. In this way the Trust has been able to ensure that an ever increasing audience of all ages is aware of what’s going on and so can join in Midsomer Norton’s vibrant community life.

There’s also been investment in new facilities ranging from the newly installed top of the range HD projection and surround sound facilities at the Town Hall to the purchase of market stall umbrellas for use at town markets and community events managed by the Trust. Add to this the installation of

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a function bar at the town hall to support the arts programme sponsored by B&NES Arts Team and the Town Council then all looks set for a bigger and better than ever before arts season over the coming year.

The only thing that still remains to be solved is the transfer of community assets from B&NES to the Town Council. Whilst an enormous amount of work has been done in Midsomer Norton setting up the Community Trust and Town Trust, we still await a completion date from B&NES. Let’s hope this can be speedily resolved in the coming months so that the Community Trust can come into its own.

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TOWN SHOW Housed in a 720 square metre marquee at Gullock Tyning, the Town Show will aim to showcase and celebrate the creativity of residents of Midsomer Norton and its community groups. There will be competition areas for everyone with five main sections and 24 classes. Cookery categories will be for the best Victoria sponge, fruit cake, scones and flap jacks as well as marmalade, jam and chutney . Hobbies & Crafts will include needlework, embroidery and quilting as well as knitting, handmade cards, soft toys and other handicrafts. There will be Flowers & Produce and also Art & Photography sections.

Finally there will be a whole area devoted to Children’s entries ranging from a dinner plate garden and drawing/painting to a model made from junk and a handwriting category.

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“Overall the aim is to encourage as many people as possible to take part to celebrate the varied creative skills of local people.

With over 1500 entry forms having been printed it will be easy to enter one or more of the Show sections. There will be a range of trophies, one for each of the five main Sections and a Town Show Trophy for the person winning the most points overall. In addition, there will be a Children’s Trophy and a School’s Trophy presented to the Midsomer Norton School with the highest number of points”, said Jenny Hillman, Chair of the Community Trust’s Town Show organising committee.

It’s not too late to enter - copies of the entry form are available from the Town Hall, Midsomer Norton Library or on line at www.midsomernortoncommunitytrust.co.uk

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MAYPOLE FESTIVAL Midsomer Norton’s schools and community groups will be taking part in a Midsomer Maypole Festival. Five Maypoles were purchased with the support of local B&NES Councillors and loaned out to groups in the town wishing to learn to dance and for months local children have been preparing for a competition on the 12th July and the chance to win a glittering array of trophies and medals.

“I’ve always been fascinated by Maypole dancing. Not only is it great fun, it’s a great way to get people exercising and it symbolises for me how a community can come together.

It would be fantastic if we could establish Maypole dancing as a regular part of Midsomer Norton Fayre Day. I’m hoping to see my fellow

Town Councillors form a team and take up a set of ribbons on the day as this is an activity for people of all ages”, said Cllr Paul Myers, Mayor of Midsomer Norton.

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VICTORIANA TEA ROOM & ART EXHIBITION The Old Bakery Artists will be presenting an exhibition of their work at the Somer Centre on Midsomer Norton Fayre day. As a well-established group this will be a wonderful opportunity to see their work.

Also in the Somer Centre will be the Victoriana Tea Rooms, run by the Midsomer Norton Methodist Church, and providing a chance to sit down and take a rest from the bustle of Fayre day and relax in an oasis of elegance.

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nual Duck Race on Midsomer Norton Fayre day to raise money for local charities. Ducks can be purchased before the race to give entrants the chance to win prizes. The River Management Team has been busy clearing the river bed to allow the amazing spectacle of hundreds of ducks floating by.

MASSIVE MODEL BUILDING & CRAFT WORKSHOPS The Wansdyke Play Association is planning a Massive Model Building workshop - providing an opportunity for children to make something from cardboard and other junk materials. At the same time there will also be craft workshops run by Welton Baptist Church.

So Fayre Day wil offer plenty of opportunity to unlock creativity.

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COMMUNITY STALLS What better way to celebrate community than to find out more about some of Midsomer Norton’s 100 community groups. The new market umbrellas purchased by the Town Council recently and tables from the Town Hall will create a community group market place. If your community group would like a stall, as these are subject to availability, please ring Alex Davis at the Midsomer Norton Community Trust to book on 01761 419133.

STEGGFEST AT THE TOWN HALL Steggfest is a one-day live music festival and the brainchild of local musician and all round doer, Nick Lamb. A musical melting pot, it

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