Rose Fair week
It’s Rose Fair week! Assuming you’re reading this in the week the paper is published, then from today (3rd July) you will find a number of Churches throughout the town taking part with their own themes and activities, so please check the Rose Fair leaflet or their website for more details, or just have a walk around and discover for yourself! (I found my leaflet in the Tourist information Centre, inside Etcetera which is near the Clarkson Memorial)
On Saturday there are two parades of floats, one at 11am and one at 2pm, organised by Wisbech Round Table. You’ll see community groups marching,walking and dancing along the route as well as the traditional “floats” of trucks towing trailers decorated by schools and others to this year’s theme of “100 Years of History”. A lovely celebration of the town, that has become part of its heritage.
In time for Rose Fair, there is an exhibition of the work of the participants of the High Street Project‘s Photography Workshops. Delivered by award winning photographer Matt Emmett, the group have spent two years documenting various aspects of the town, focussing on heritage spaces and places – including Peckover House, featured in the photograph here.
The exhibition is at Wisbech and Fenland Museum 10am to 4pm each day until Saturday 6th, then Sunday 7th July to Saturday 3rd August at the Light Cinema.
The Wisbech in Bloom team have been hard at work adding colour across the town and I’m sure we all wish them luck in the judging for Anglia in Bloom coming up in a couple of weeks. Their work is all year round, but is particularly noticeable now. I know I’ve said it before, but I do admire the time spent by the group to make the whole town brighter and more colourful for the summer. The latest displays are not just for this week, or the judges, they last for many months and are enjoyed by tourists and visitors as well as local people.
Please share photos of all this work online and with family and friends who don’t live here to support all the volunteers’ efforts and to show Wisbech in a favourable light. These small actions can make a difference to how the town is perceived and gradually we can encourage others to think of the town as worth investing in – for its attractions, not just to solve its perceived problems.