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Gala Evening, Friday 3rd June 2011
Our Gala Evening
will be a private event, by invitation only, and kindly sponsored by
Societe Generale Private Banking HAMBROS , Newbury. There will be lots of wine and food in these
beautiful gardens - The Band of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers will be
'Beating the Retreat' The evening forms a Preview to the whole
show with the Trade Stands, Gardens and Show Gardens all open between 6pm and
9pm. Entrance to the evening is by Donation only, and we recommend a minimum donation of
£15 per person.
Invitations to the Evening can be obtained by
e mailing the Show
Office with your name & address.
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Public days, Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th June
2011
The Show will be open from 10 am - 6 pm
Standard Entry Fee -
£7. Children under 15 Free.
Newbury and District Agricultural Society Members with Membership
Card £5.
TO BUY TICKETS ON LINE GO TO -
The Quay Tickets Website
The gardens will be
fully open, including the Walled Garden, the Rose Garden and the Arboretum. A
map will be available in the Show Guide on sale in the Gardens.
New features for 2011 will include:
CHILDRENS ENTERTAINMENTS
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Traditional Fun Fair
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Laser Shooting
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Paintball Range
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Face Painting
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Other entertainments
Gift & Craft Fair – over 70 Stalls.
Show Gardens
Main Marquee with
Gardeners Garden Advise & Cookery Demonstrations.
By Steve Brookes BBC Gardening Presenter
‘Greatest Gardening Tips’
& Tim Clapp Head of Horticulture for the Garden Centre Group
‘ Aspects of Rose Growing’
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 Band of the Royal Electrical &
Mechanical Engineers
Our continuing features will include:
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Antiques Identification and Valuation
- please bring your own items, and
experts will be pleased to do their best to tell you what it is and
provide you with an estimate of value.
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Kids Corner - something for the
children too
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Our Silent
Auction, kindly organised by Newbury Rotary
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Live music - East Woodhay Silver Band
, Hungerford Brass Band, and other Bands will play on both days.
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 On the Sunday morning we will hold an
open air service "Praise in the
Garden", conducted by the Rev. Julie Ramsbotham
within
the old church in the Garden; as before we expect to have music and a
children's choir for this lovely event.
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Around a hundred
Trade Stands
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Gardeners Question Time & Advice - in the
Main Marquee on the Lawn.
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Veronica
Mackinnon of Schooldays
in the Garden, and the
Berkshire Gardens Trust will
also be available to answer your questions, not only
about plants around the Gardens at West Woodhay but also (as far as
knowledge permits) about subjects or issues that you may have in your
own gardens.
Where a subject above is underlined please
click on the underlined words and the link will take you to the
appropriate page of this website.
DOGS ALLOWED ON LEADS.
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Catering: there will be lots of Hot & Cold food and
drink available, this time from T.B.A who will provide a Marquee Dining Room, and the villages will
again staff the popular Tea Garden, providing
coffee, tea and home-made cakes for just £2.50. For 2011 the tea has been very kindly given
by Taylors of Harrogate,
suppliers of Yorkshire Tea, and the villages' plant stall will be extended to offer homemade produce as
well.
Getting here - there is a
directions page on this website, and there will
be RAC Directional signs from the A34 & A4.
For those that wish to bring their own
refreshments there will be plenty of picnic space in the main car park, but
we do ask visitors not to bring drinks or snacks into the Gardens and to
take any rubbish away on departure; though Messrs
Grundon have very kindly agreed to
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