Golden Jubilee Celebrations in Heversham
Friday 31st May
St Peters Heversham Flower Day
St Peters Church,
Heversham, will be decorated with flowers to celebrate the Church alterations and
the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
2.00-4.00pm
There will be coffee and tea served, activities for the children
and a chance to see how beautiful the Church now looks
Saturday 1st June
St Peters Heversham Flower Day
St Peters Church,
Heversham, will be decorated with flowers to celebrate the Church alterations and
the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
10.00am-4.00pm
There will be coffee and tea served, activities for the children
and a chance to see how beautiful the Church now looks
Golden Jubilee Live Band Night
A 'Golden Jubilee Live Band Night' dance will be held at
The Athenaeum
from 8.30 pm to 12.30 am.
Dance to 'Misdemeanour' and have a drink at 'Dickie Doodles Bar'.
Tickets, £5.00 can de obtained from
Mr G Handley (tel. 015395 63571) or Mr R Sissons (tel. 015395 60237).
Sunday 2nd June
Jubilee Garden Party
The main celebration of the Jubilee will take place at the Blue Bell Hotel,
by kind permission of Susan and Richard Cowie, between 1.00 pm and 5.00 pm.
The afternoon's events will begin with a Junior Fun Run of some four
miles around the village, followed by a Senior Fun Run of eight miles.
There will be a Fancy Dress competition for children, a Fancy Hat
competition for the ladies, and for those who find they still have
some energy left, a tug-of-war competition.
While all these events are taking place, Afternoon Tea can be
taken within the comfortable surroundings of the Blue Bell Hotel.
Outside in the car park, along with a Bouncy Castle, there will be
stalls and fun and games for all the family, including such rural
pursuits as "find the ferret", "guess the weight of the sheep", and
skittles, plus many others to test the skill and dexterity of
the participants.
During the festivities, commemorative mugs will be presented to
those eligible youngsters who are present that afternoon.
A total of 200 mugs have been provided free by
Heversham Parish Council
to be given to all pupils of
St Peter's Junior School and to
all young residents of the parishes of Heversham with Leasgill and Hincaster
who are aged eighteen or under in 2002.
Mugs are also to be presented to the 50 full time boarders of
Dallam School.
The afternoon will end with the presentation of commemorative medals
to the winners of the races, and prizes to the winners of the various competitions.
Tickets for the afternoon, costing £4.00 (inclusive of afternoon tea),
can be obtained from
Heversham Post Office
and the Blue Bell Hotel.
All profits from the afternoon will be donated to the village
Jubilee Playground Fund.
Monday 3rd June
Jubilee Street Party in Milnthorpe
Jubilee Pudding Party
Everyone is invited to a "Jubilee Pudding Party"
at The Athenaeum,
Leasgill, 6-9pm
Jacob's Join, so please bring a pudding or cake to add to the buffet.
Cine show of the Queen's Silver Jubilee Celebrations in Heversham and Leasgill in 1977.
Tickets available on the door for £1.50 including the first glass of wine.
Tea and Coffee will be provided.
The Beacon on Heversham Head and Fireworks will be lit at 9.45pm.
Please assemble in The Athenaeum car park by 8.30pm to walk up to the Beacon
Profit will go to
Heversham Children's Playground
Beacon bonfire on Heversham Head
Cllr Roger Bingham
will light a beacon bonfire on Heversham Head
(by courtesy of Mr George Handley), assisted by two pupils from
St Peter's School
and accompanied on the bagpipes by Mr Richard Cowie.
The lighting will be followed by a firework display, the cost of
the fireworks being covered by donations from members of the community.
Monday 30th June
Tree Planting Prince's Way
The 75th anniversary of the opening of Heversham and Leasgill's
own by-pass, Prince's Way, on 01 July 1937 by the then Prince of Wales
(later Edward VIII), will be commemorated with a tree-planting ceremony
and the unveiling of a plaque at 3.00 pm on the grass verge adjacent to
the Blue Bell Hotel.
The ceremony will be followed by a celebratory buffet in the hotel.
July/August
The Jubilee Playground - date TBD
The final event of the Jubilee celebrations will be the
re-opening of the
village playground,
which is to be renamed the Jubilee Playground.
On 8th June 1974 Brigadier Tryon-Wilson of Dallam Tower opened the
first playground in the village.
Last year, for safety reasons, the
life-expired playground equipment had to be removed, but over the
last two years a committee of local residents have raised more than
£11,000 for new equipment, thanks to donations from local charities and funds,
the Frieda Scott Charitable Trust,
from the Hadfield Charitable Trust
from South Lakeland District Council, from Cumbria County Council
Neighbourhood Forum, and by dint of their own efforts.
It is proposed to re-open the playground and unveil a commemorative
plaque either during the last weekend in July or the first weekend in
August, subject to the completion of the installation of the new equipment
which will be supplied by the
Haverthwaite-based firm, Playdale.
The above program compiled from information from various sources
including Heversham Parish Council.
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