STONE FESTIVAL
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illed as a celebration of everything that is great
about Stone, the town’s popular summer
Festival with events stretched out over two
weeks, is now well and truly underway and
proving as popular as ever.
See our events run down of everything still to
come or get all the up to the minute details,
information and results of the events taking place
from the official website, Facebook and Twitter
pages.
With everything from parties, competitions,
celebrations and quizzes to a car boot sale, the
action kicked off on Sunday 1st June with the
annual five mile multi-terrain race from
Westbridge Park. This was the start of festivities
leading to the highlight of Carnival Day over at
Westbridge Park and the Parade through the town
on Saturday 14th June. This will then be followed
by the perfect crescendo to the celebrations with
the traditional ‘End of Festival Week’ Service at St
Michael and St Wulfad’s Church at 6.30pm on
Sunday 15th June.
The complete order of events will however run as
follows:
Sunday 8th June:
•Car Boot Sale - Westbridge Park from 9am.
Booter's entry fee is £5 per car. No commercial
sellers, refreshments available, just turn up.
•Raft Race - The annual raft race is
held on the
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River Trent from Darlaston to Walton Bridge.
Registration is at 9am onwards at the Darlaston
Inn and the race starts at 10am. Entry is £5 per
person, including refreshments. The winning team
will receive £50 and will take part in Saturday’s
Carnival Parade. Human power only no mechanical
pumps!
•Dog Show - The ever popular Festival Dog
Show is again in Westbridge Park. Entries will be
taken from 10am with the show starting at 11am.
•Bowls Sub Final - The Bowls Annual Sub
Finals will again this year take place at Stonefield
Park from 2pm.
Monday 9th June:
•Steeplechase and Dog Derby - This year’s
steeplechase and dog derby will again be held in
Westbridge Park. Please register for both races at
6.30pm. The steeplechase for humans will start at
7pm while the dog derby for dogs and their owners
will start around 7:30pm. The entry fees for each
race is adults £2.50, Under 16's £1. There will be
three classes Under 16's, 16 to 40 and veterans over
40. These are two fun events for humans, dogs and
spectators alike. Both races follow the same course
leaving Westbridge Park via the canal towpath into
Stone and returning through Crown Meadows - a
distance of about 1.5 miles and if conditions are
suitable the course will include a short river
crossing which for all those with cameras ready is
one of the slapstick highl Y