Historical Factoids 19:

[Mal]

It’s not been all doom and gloom of course there are some enjoyable things to mention.  

I worked with the group that put on the Bedlington Street Fair back in the 1990’s and that was really successful with everyone saying how much they enjoyed it.  For whatever reason that stopped in the early 2000’s and when I became chair of the Town Council it was something I wanted to bring back into the annual calendar for the Town.  I think I got a budget of around d £15K and promised to get it sorted. 

Again working with some great people we managed not only to bring it in under budget but the income it produced by selling space to the venders meant I could put on other events like an enhanced Xmas light switch on, dog show and support the revamped Bedlington Picnic. 

2015 was the first year we did it and it was a huge success. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ubqxpn9AZY

The following year we wanted to enlarge it and made it a two day event 2015 had been a great event, 2016 was going to be even better!  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRRuL85jzDM

The new Bedlington Picnic was held at Attlee Park and the kiddies especially enjoyed that one. 

We held the dog show at one end of the 20 Acres and we had dogs from all over being entered into the competitions. 

After being elected to the County Council I wanted to use Plessey Woods Country Park for some events, just to get people down there and show them what a great facility we have on our doorstep.

The first one was a classical……

https://www.facebook.com/100057586923534/videos/594982757700108

https://www.facebook.com/100057586923534/videos/430688474219411

Then it was a Superhero’s one for the Kids………

https://www.facebook.com/100057586923534/videos/808093089689613

I even pulled one off for the Queens Platinum Jubilee Day, this was a part of it……..even raffling Pooh Bear to give to our foodbanks. 

https://www.facebook.com/100057586923534/videos/313350500979595

https://www.facebook.com/100057586923534/videos/1202791570523818

https://www.facebook.com/100057586923534/videos/2045314589000041

Even the little ones got in on the act………….

https://www.facebook.com/100057586923534/videos/713038763272309

We even did a Santa Tour just before Xmas…

https://www.facebook.com/100057586923534/videos/3985970814767804

So some of the stuff we have seen over the last few years.