Local Scene
Mayday scorcher!
The New Carnival Company,
organisers of the ‘All along the
Riverbank’ event held on the Mayday
Bank Holiday, have hailed it a
‘scorching success’, after logging
more than 3,000 people participating
along the two-mile stretch of the
event beside the Eastern Yar.
The unusual linear event took place along the
cycleway from Sandown to Langbridge, and
was animated with over 50 imaginative nature
installations and sculptures of insects, birds and
mammals, all created in school and community
workshops across the east of the Island.
There were also numerous stalls, displays
and traditional crafters from a range of
environmental and creative organisations,
who gave passers-by an opportunity to try
out and learn about exactly what they do.
Meanwhile, the large May Field at Peddlers
Café was transformed with some lively
traditional Maypole and Morris Dancing,
folk singing and a percussion workshop.
Pictures by Graham Re ading
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