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                                       Ulverston Dickensian Christmas Festival 

                                                     

                                    

 

 

Activities on Saturday 27th November 2010
When What's On Where
All Day Children's Fairground Brogden Street, The Gill and rides at the lower end of Market St.
All Day Donkey Rides for children The Gill
All Day Birds of Prey Display - Corio Raptor Care Union Street
10.00 - 4.00 pm Top Hats and Tiaras - Free Childrens Hat Making Pickwick's Corner, Theatre Street
11.00 - 2.45 pm Santa's Grotto

Evening Mail Office, Market St. 

All Day Miniature Steam Railway (South Lakes Model Engineers) Beside The Market Hall
All Day Steam Bus Rides   Pick-up Point at Rose and Crown, King Street
All Day Giant Festival Tombola Marquee in Market Place
9.30 - 5.00 pm Artists Exhibition Coronation Hall - Ante-Room
9.30 - Noon Coffee Morning   Coronation Hall - Main Hall - NSPCC
10.00 - 2.00 pm Victorian Tearoom and Christmas Fayre Bethany Christian Church, Victoria Road/Lightburn Road (next to Drill Hall)
10.00 - 4.00 pm The Chemist on the Corner - A Victorian Pharmacy and local history by Heritage First!  Stead & Simpsons, King Street
10.00 - 5.00 pm   Victorian Photo Booth with Costumes and sets for souvenir sepia phographs.  Stead & Simpsons, King Street
All Day The Victorian Railway - Furness Railway Trust The Emmanuel Christian Centre, Mill Street
All Day Mrs Bumbles Tearoom - Ulverston Day Services The Old Library, County Sq.
10.00 - 3.00 pm Open day for visitors Ulverston Parish Church
11.00 What The Dickens - Changes in English Usage from Dickens to the present. A Talk by Mark Newbrook Ulverston library
12 noon Victorian tales - story telling for children with Martin Gilbert Ulverston library
1.00 - 5.00 pm Dickensian Tearoom - St John Ambulance Coronation Hall - Supper Room
1.00 - 4.00 Hoad Monument open to visitors 'The Lighthouse on Hoad Hill'
3.00 pm Grand Procession starts Circuit of town
3.25 pm Period Costume Competition County Square Stage
3.45 pm Procession continues to Market Place New Market Street
4.00 pm Switch On of Christmas Lights Market Place Stage with The Town Mayor and Santa
7.30 pm An Evening with Gilbert and Sullivan with Barrow Savoyards  The Parish Church Centre
8.00 pm Annual Lancashire Day Celebrations. Music by Live Steam Old Friends on Soutergate