Here are Newbury Carnival 2009 official photographer David Hatfull’s photos from last Sunday. Aren’t they great?
We’ve been receiving lots of photos for our photo competition (see below) and will be setting up a separate page to display them – please check back on Wednesday evening to see them along with some video.
Also, if you haven’t seen the excellent video at the Newbury Today web site, click here to view it.
We’ve already received some wonderful photographs taken at yesterday’s Carnival – so we thought we would award a prize for the best.
We’re offering £100 for the best picture taken at Newbury Carnival 2009.
Please send your entries to enter.newburycarnival@gmail.com. Entries must be received by Thursday 16th July. All the photos that have been sent in so far will be included in the competition.
We will add selected photos from those which you submit to an online gallery which will be displayed on the website shortly.
Wow, what a fantastic day! All of the entries in this year’s Carnival Parade were stunning – I wish you could have all won something! Thank you for making such an effort. I know you will all have your tales to tell from the last few weeks. I am sure you had fun planning and preparing your entries and I sincerely hope you all enjoyed yesterday as much as we did.
If you were part of the events in the park - a big thank you to you, also. This year was our biggest Carnival Fete ever.
And if you were amongst the many thousands in the crowd, thank you for coming and I hope you had a really great time.
I would also like to say a massive thank you to all of our sponsors and supporters – we couldn’t have done it without you. In particular, I want to mention The Greenham Common Trust and The Berkshire Community Foundation, both of whom made significant financial contributions at a time that allowed us to plan ahead with the confidence and surety that we could afford to stage the event.
To everyone, whatever your part in the day, it has been great pleasure to share the experience of Newbury Carnival 2009 with you.
Here is our first batch of photos from yesterday. We’ll be posting more photos and some video online later so please do check back. We have already received some photos via email and if you have any you would like to send us we’d love to see them. Please email them to newburycarnival@googlemail.com
Note that if you click on the panel below you’ll be taken to our online album where you can view photos individually.
These were taken by one of the Carnival Team rather than our official photographer, David Hatfull of Diem Photography. (David just needs to sort out the photos from a wedding he attended on Saturday before he can do ours. So it may be later this week before we have a complete set of pictures for you – please keep looking!)
John Rankin School's "Shrek went to the carnival"
Congratulations to the following winners of this year’s Carnival Parade:
Best Business Entry – Newbury Town Council: Once upon a time … we were all kids
Best Community Entry - West Berkshire Minority Ethnic Forum: Once upon a time … in a land far away
Best Individual Entry – Peter Bosley: Laurel & Hardy in Another Fine Mess
Best Schools Entry – John Rankin School: Shrek goes to the Carnival
Best Walking Entry – Northcroft Lifesaving Club: Shark’s tale
Best Youth Group Entry – Newbury College: Once upon a time … a small college opened in Newbury
Most Creative Entry – The Winchcombe School: The wind in the willows
And special congratulations to:
Once again, we are extremely grateful to the companies who sponsored this year’s awards and helped to support this community event.
Good morning! We hope you enjoyed your lie in (see below).
While you were sleeping, the night shift in the Carnival Control Centre were working flat out. A vast team of Cardinal operatives* descended on Newbury putting up signs and the Met Team poured over their siWeed 2000 super computer churning out forecast after forecast. As you will see, the forecast** suggests light showers in the morning and a perfect afternoon. Note that there might be some strongish gusts of wind, so do make sure that anything on your float or fete stall which might blow away is properly tied down.
So, see you in Goldwell Park (you know where that is now, don’t you?) between 12.00pm and 6.00pm for the fete and other festivities and in the town centre between 2.00pm and 3.00pm for the parade. Good luck to everyone involved and have a great day!
Today is a day for us to celebrate Newbury.
Newbury Carnival provides a wonderful chance for all of us who live in the town and surrounding areas to come together and join in a day of fun, whilst at the same time helping to raise funds for the many charities and local community groups who work so hard to make this a good place to live.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for participating, whether you are taking part in the Carnival Parade, have a stall in the park or whether you have come to support this event by watching and visiting the Carnival Fete. I’d like to wish good luck to each of the Parade entrants and I look forward to seeing you and meeting as many of you as I can later today.
I do hope you have a very enjoyable Newbury Carnival 2009.
Kuldip Singh Kang
Mayor of Newbury
How does that sound? In case you missed it the first time, here’s a short video from the Newbury Weekly News about the last carnival in 2007.
* N.B. Item 1 probably doesn’t apply if you are involved with a Parade entry and certainly doesn’t if you’re one of the organisers!
Two parade participants and a member of the team
As you can imagine, the scene here at Carnival Control Centre (see link to the left) is pretty hectic with just a day to go. Tomorrow some 600 hundred people will join a parade through the centre of Newbury, 60 traders and community groups will arrive at Goldwell Park (or Goldwell-Park-Next-To-The-Northcroft-Centre as it’s come to be known since many people were uncertain of its location!) to set up stalls and thousands of people (that’s you) will come into town to join in the fun.
There’s a surprising amount that needs to be done to make all this happen. Lots of meetings have been held, hundreds of emails sent and telephone calls made, posters and newspaper inserts have been designed, funds have been raised through a variety of ingenious means, routes planned, stewards recruited, lorries sourced, entrants briefed, websites updated and so on (and on!). It has been suggested that, in the interests of crowd maximisation, we also had a hand in arranging that there wouldn’t be a British finalist at Wimbledon this year but that’s a scurrilous idea and we couldn’t possibly comment.
More about the Carnival Team after the event. For now, can we remind you that if there are going to be future Newbury Carnivals we are going to need lots of help. If you are interested in joining the team or would like to find out what’s involved, come to our marquee at the Carnival Fete and have a chat with one of us. And don’t forget to buy a raffle ticket while you’re there!
Newbury Carnival 2009’s official photographer is David Hatfull of www.diemphoto.co.uk. Here are some of his excellent photos of the 2007 carnival to get you in the mood for Sunday. Be sure to visit this website after the carnival to see his photos from this year.
We would also love to see YOUR photos and videos from Newbury Carnival 2009. You can either upload them to an online photo sharing service like Picasa or Flickr and email us a link or you can email your favourite photos to newburycarnival@googlemail.com and we’ll publish the best of them here.
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