Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Bank Holiday
Bank Holiday Monday
Quite unusually I was off work on Bank Holiday Monday, I have spent the last twenty years or more being used to working on Bank Holidays ensuring that our customers get everything that they need at the holiday time.
The town was jam packed with tourists and it was all a bit of an anti-climax with the Cookson Festival having ended, I think the Bank Holiday NEEDS an event. large scale, as a finale to the festival. Something to think about for future years. Everybody just seemed to be wandering aimlessly about from parks to beaches, to shops and amusement park etc.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could perhaps shift the carnival from the start of the festival and hold it at the end instead, and change the route, hold it along the sea front, starting in the Market Square, go down King Street and Ocean Road and end it at Gypsies Green Stadium. Do it at night, and finish with a fireworks extravaganza!
It would give us the opportunity to reinvigorate the carnival, it needs marching bands, and more floats, more community involvement, and of course an event of this size would also require a lot of local business sponsorship.
What do you all think?
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Quite unusually I was off work on Bank Holiday Monday, I have spent the last twenty years or more being used to working on Bank Holidays ensuring that our customers get everything that they need at the holiday time.
The town was jam packed with tourists and it was all a bit of an anti-climax with the Cookson Festival having ended, I think the Bank Holiday NEEDS an event. large scale, as a finale to the festival. Something to think about for future years. Everybody just seemed to be wandering aimlessly about from parks to beaches, to shops and amusement park etc.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could perhaps shift the carnival from the start of the festival and hold it at the end instead, and change the route, hold it along the sea front, starting in the Market Square, go down King Street and Ocean Road and end it at Gypsies Green Stadium. Do it at night, and finish with a fireworks extravaganza!
It would give us the opportunity to reinvigorate the carnival, it needs marching bands, and more floats, more community involvement, and of course an event of this size would also require a lot of local business sponsorship.
What do you all think?
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