Oswaldtwistle Carnival
 

If you don't know already, Oswaldtwistle Carnival is being revived. 22nd June at 12noon the procession will head down Union Road.

Then the field event will take place from 12noon to 4pm in Rhyddings Park.

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Sunday 22nd June 12 noon onwards
Oswaldtwistle Carnival

The procession starts at 12 noon at Vine Mill and travels along Union Road to The Civic Arts Centre. The procession will be lead by Accrington Pipe Band and features around 30 floats or walking groups.

Once at Lord Street, walkers will head up to Rhyddings Park for the fun day. There will be three performance areas with live music and entertainment throughout the afternoon. There will be a fairground, puppet shows, pony rides, lots of community stalls and an international food area.

Live music and entertainment starts at 1pm and includes East Lancashire Concert Band, Sandersons Dance, Skoot and CAST singing groups and much, much more. In the Marquee local musicians The Itch will be the headline acts and on the StarTruck stage Reece Bibby will headline. In the final performance area EL cheerleaders will entertain and the young people from the Civic Arts Centre will perform short excerpts from their Accrington Pals tribute.

This event has been organised by the local community coming together to make this happen.

The Prince and Princesses will be announced at a family event on Friday 6th June at the Civic Arts Centre. The Mayor will be in attendance. The Prince and Princesses will be part of the Carnival procession and will ride along Union Road in open topped cars. The girls will also have their hair done on the morning of the Carnival by local hairdresser Gemma Brown.

We expect it will be a big event and we hope the whole of Oswaldtwistle comes out to support it. Road closures will take effect from around 11.30am to about 1.30pm.

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Well Rhyddings Park was packed to the gunnels this aft, reckon it was a big sucess, was very hot n wanted a sup, but queues were that big,we sodded off to the Stop N Rest fer one.:D Think the whole of Hyndburn came out never mind ossy Gayle. lol Noticed nana dingle pushing the pram. lol

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Reports from the sister in law said it was a great carnival, well done all involved.

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It was a really fantastic event. Rhyddings park was heaving and everyone looked happy. Loved the brass band. Perfect weather too, though my arms took a bit of a burning.

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So it was you that drank them dry :D