Extras

Just some extra things

The annual Dalston Festival sees scarecrows appearing all over the village in gardens and on roadsides. Each year sees a different suggested theme. These are our scarecrows for both our own house and elsewhere in the village, plus some other village projects with which we have helped.

2016: children's TV & film

Bill & Ben, the Flower Pot Men + Little Weed: 2016
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2017: Disney

Mary Poppins & Bert the Chimney Sweep, 2017
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2017

Mary Poppins at the entrance to the village, 2017
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2018: Childhood memories

A wartime evacuee boy on the roadside at Bridge End
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2018: Childhood memories

Twiggy & Mary Quant!
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2018: Childhood memories

A wartime girl evacuee at the village entrance on the Durdar road
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2018: World War 1 Centenary

The annual flower festival in the village church is part of the Dalston Festival - 'There but not there', in memory of those from the village fell during the 1st World War
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2018: World War 1 Centenary

The annual flower festival in the village church forms part of the Daslton Festival: 'There but not there' to remember those from the village who fell during the First World War
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11th November, 2018

One of my "there but not there" figures sharing the table at lunch in the Victory Hall following the Remembrance Service. The wooden table centres were made to hold poppies created by children from the local Primary school.
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LINKS:

below are some links to other things or websites with which I have an involvement:

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Yet another website is for the Victory Hall, a community hall and meeting place in the village of Dalston, Cumbria, available for hire: www.victoryhall-dalston.org.uk
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Another website, although this is not one I have built, gives details of a locally based charity that supports women in a rural community in northern Uganda who are trying to change their plight. The charity provides tools, seeds, clean water, and now a health centre.
www.dewode.co.uk
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