The choir processed from St Wilfrid's Church along Beech Lane
to School Square ....
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.... for the opening service accompanied by the Rolls Royce Junior
Band.
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Early Christians saw well dressing as water worship and
tried to stop it but the tradition refused to die. Sceptics in
this millenium year would have called it rain worship!
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The wells were blessed in turn as the choir returned to the church
- this blessing is outside the "Old Post Office".
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How would you like to live here? The house right next door to
the village pub, "The Punchbowl" was up for sale.
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The "Old School House" was the setting for two dressings
-"Holy Trinity" and "His Light Still Shines"
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The art of coopering - barrel making - still lives even though
the number of coopers remaining is small.
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"Guide Dogs For The Blind" was just one of the charities
to benefit from the Festival.
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Traffic free roads enabled pedestrians to peruse the many stalls
in safety.
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It seemed a little incongruous to see American Line Dancing in
an English village but it all added to the entertainment and
the enjoyment.
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It would take more than a few showers on a July Saturday afternoon
to daunt these hardy people used to an English summer.
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