The late May Bank Holiday always has many interesting and fun events going on in the Heacham and Hunstanton area.
For a start there is St Edmund’s Festival in Hunstanton starts on 27th May with an evening service at 7.30pm followed by cheese & wine and the church is open between 10am-4pm on the 28th and 29th with refreshments available in the hall and a concert in the Church by The Poringland Choir at 7.30pm (28th) and ye Olde Tyme Music Hall at 7pm (29th). There is also a quiz in the hall at 7pm on 30th May. For ticket information please call Tel: 01485 532012.
There are at least two open gardens on over the weekend that we know of. These include Dersingham and Sedgeford. Dersingham is opening a selection of gardens on 30 and 31 May (2pm till 6pm) and Sedgeford have ten gardens open on 30 May. For further details of the Sedgeford Open Gardens contact Mrs Pam Goddard on 01485 579002. Each Open Garden event revolves around the local church so that would be a good starting point to locating the gardens.
A few more ideas of what to do this Bank Holiday could include visiting Park Farm for a special daily programme of sheep shearing and sheep dog demonstrations (30 May – 6 June) or Bircham Windmill’s sheep racing!!
For the more arty crafty, Park Farm is offering an Art and Craft programme with a number of art demos and crafty activities for you to participate in. Among the range of activities on offer include kite making, frisbee making and photograph frame making. (There may be an additional charge for some events.) And don’t miss out on this unique farm attraction at this special time of year now that the deer are calving. The first baby deer was born on the farm on 24 May. If you miss it this weekend don’t worry as a good 60 new calves are expected to be born on Park Farm during June and July so there will be other opportunities to look forward to.
Due to the wonderful success of last years Country Day at Bircham Windmill, this year Bircham Windmill are holding a Country Weekend – on May 30th and 31st from 10am to 5pm on both Saturday and Sunday.
On Sunday there will be children’s show jumping (no ponies – just children!), guinea pig racing, our famous sheep racing, horse dressage and meet the horse and Mrs Ward will be there with lots of children’s activities.
On Monday there is Doggy show jumping, Morris dancing, sheep shearing, our great fun dog show and the show jumping with the finale of our collie dog V the horse in a higher and higher competition. Mrs Ward will be there again in her Victorian cottage with her sister reminiscing about old times.