Jubilee 2012

Sherborne plans to mark the historic occasion of HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with a weekend of celebrations. Many of the town’s clubs and associations, with the support of the Town Council, are working together to plan a weekend of festivities and fun.

The celebrations will be centred mainly on Pageant Gardens and take place on the afternoons of Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd June.

The outline programme s far is as follows:

Saturday 2 June 2012

See the 'ostriches' in Cheap Street and Pageant Gardens

11.00 am ‘Ostriches’ parade up and down Cheap Street (Spot-the-Ostrich Competition underway from 26 May to 3 June when some shop windows will feature toy ostriches and Sherborne’s permanent architectural ostrich features will need to be identified. Entry forms at the Tourist Information Centre.)

2.00pm – 4.30pm Pageant Gardens

Games: Arts & Crafts; face-painting; storytelling; circus skills; skittle alley; ball in the bucket; hook the duck; tombola; ostrich race

Music: Radio Sherborne plays 1950s music

Stalls: Books; ‘pocket money’ toys; sweets; cakes

Catering provided by The Eastbury Hotel: Burgers and other hot food; cake; teas & coffees

Displays: Four Classic cars dating from 1951 and 1952; Museum jubilee material; Festive Flags

Too Deep from Sherborne plays at Pageant Gardens

4.30pm – 7.00pm Pageant Gardens: Sherborne’s own local bands: Too Deep; Mark Webb & James Morton Jazz; Richard Clarke Music; A&T; M.A.D.I.S.O.N. – all broadcast live by Radio Sherborne

7.00pm – 9.00pm Sherborne Abbey: Jubilee-themed concert for all the family with music written for coronations and other Royal occasions.

Sunday 3 June 2012

2.00pm – 5.00pm Pageant Gardens

Games: Arts& Crafts; face-painting; storytelling; circus skills; skittle alley; ball in the bucket; hook the duck; tombola

Music: Radio Sherborne plays 1950s music; Sherborne Town Band; Sherborne Carollers (a new Sherborne group of people who enjoy singing local songs or carols i.e. not just Christmas carols)

Stalls: Books; ‘pocket money’ toys; sweets; cake

Catering: Burgers and other hot food; cake; teas & coffees; champagne and beer tent

Displays: Four Classic cars dating from 1951 and 1952; Museum jubilee material; Festive Flags

2.30pm – 4.30pm

Tea Party for those senior citizens in their eighties or those celebrating their Diamond Wedding Anniversaries. By invitation only; further details from the Sherborne Tourist Office.

5.00pm – 6.00pm Sherborne Abbey: A special Quarter Peal of bells for the Jubilee.

6.30pm Sherborne Abbey: An ecumenical evensong