What we did on St Georges weekend ’10

St Georges Day/weekend came round for another year and the town was decorated white and red!

Disappointingly, Crawley did not have any real festivities for this occasion, so on Saturday 24th April, we ventured into Horley town centre where the day was being celebrated in style! With their own Mayor Simon Marshall accompanied by the Mayor of Crawley Brenda Burgess (who looked stunning in a red and white outfit), the community of Horley congregated around a mass of stalls, morris dancers and performances from various companies and schools. They even ceremonially released a mass of white balloons for the traditional balloon race. We were also honoured to meet the Queen! We had a lovely time and took some pictures for you.

Then, it was off to Broadfield Stadium for the Family Fun Open Day. There was food, drink, children’s mini fairground rides, bouncy castle and great displays of football by several of the junior and senior teams on the pitch. We were made to feel very welcome and had a lovely time (even got a bit of a tan as it was so hot). Again we took some pictures for you to enjoy. On the way home we bumped into our very good friends from the Bullseye Scooter Club who were taking a break on the side of the road. We look forward to seeing more of them at the May Day Fair in Ifield on May 3rd!

The day did not end there! We then went into town to the Railway to see a great performance from The Rightous & the Wicked and to say hello to Jackie Cook (Landlady) and friends.

We then made our way over to the Swan to jump to the sound of Highway Jones who even sang a song especially for us

The evening ended with our good friends, Sam & team at Bar Med. We bumped into a familiar face whom some of you may know as Skeggsy! It was nice to see Gordon out on the town and enjoying himself (although we nearly didn’t recognise him without his decks lol).

All in all a great day! We would love to see Crawley celebrate St Georges Day in some form or another next year, and will do all we can to make it happen, so watch this space!

We would like to thank everyone who made this weekend special and for being part of us here at Crawley Happy Times!

Did you do anything special this weekend? Then tell us! xx

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