LINSLADE CANAL FESTIVAL 2012

Saturday 28 July from 11am to 5pm at Tiddenfoot Waterside Park, Mentmore Road, Linslade

This annual festival is celebrating its 10th year and the Town Council is proud to continue organising this FREE community event and working in partnership with Central Bedfordshire Council to promote rural arts and crafts, conservation, life on the canal and the heritage of the town's green spaces.  

Visitors will find a diverse selection of stalls selling handmade crafts from jewellery, painted ceramics and glassware to fancy sweets.  Local organisations will be promoting their groups and charities will once again be looking for your support with their fundraising activities.  

There will be a limited number of pitches available this year and if you are interested in attending, please  complete and return the form below to the Events Manager.  Please note, this form does not reserve or guarantee a stall space.

Interest in attending form

Rural Craft demonstrators will be on hand throughout the day to explain to visitors the traditional art of craft making, demonstrations will include:

• Basket making
• Country Chair making
• Trug making
• Love Spoon carving
• Bee Skep making with an observation hive so visitors can watch the busy bees at work.

A day long programme of live entertainment will include local musicians and dancers. If you missed them last time you will have the chance to learn to play the drums with the members of the Drum Circle.  An exciting team of Morris Dancers will no doubt get your feet tapping and local musicians will perform a variety of music from folk, to jazz to popular. 

 The ever popular boat trips will again be provided by Grebe Canal Cruises and in addition to the pleasure boat, a ferry boat service will operate from town centre wharf to the park.  This is an alternate option to driving to the event and we hope that it will prove to be a popular choice of transport for some of our visitors.  There will be a small charge for this service and signs on the day will indicate times and pick up points. 

Narrow boat registration form

THIS EVENT IS SUPPORTED BY: