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 The 2011 Church Fete in Whitchurch, Hampshire is held on Prof.Denning's lawn. Our town had its annual Church Fête on Saturday, 9 July 2011. One of its organisers asked me if I could possibly, please, pretty please, oh come on you could couldn’t you? be their unofficial official photographer. Well, it didn’t get me free admission; but I did leave with a bottle of booze. That’s fair.  Andrew Reeves-Hall sprays the volunteers with champagne to celebrate the town's wins. A lot of time has been put in by a gaggle of volunteers around Whitchurch over the past couple months to try to win a competition run by BT. They were offering to upgrade 5 rural telephone exchanges to use fibre-optic technology so that faster broadband Internet access would be possible. In November, three of us (me, John Buckley and Mike Stead) founded the Whitchurch Faster Broadband Campaign to coordinate the voting in the ’Race to Infinity’, after our Town Council backed our initiative. » Continue reading Whitchurch – A Winning Town » The official town website for Whitchurch, Hampshire, UK is http://Whitchurch.org.uk It was set up in 2010 using a SEEDA grant given to the town through Whitchurch Association, a charity. It launched on 1 May 2010 and has become the starting point for visitors and businesses. Local organisations use it, too, to list their upcoming [...] Locals 'The Plastix' play at Twangfest 2010 The fourth-annual Twangfest rocked Whitchurch on 5 June 2010. There were 17 bands that performed across the 2 stages throughout the day, and that doesn’t include the ones who also took a turn on the Open Mic stage. About 800 people descended on Testbourne on the [...]  EngLego The pub race around town was a site to behold – this was the third year of its return and each time the creative costumes and antics improve.  Men at Work nearly get run over instead of a donation! Our favourites this year were the EngLego team dressed up as LEGO figures who had to endure sweltering heat inside their costumes; and the Men at Work for their shere audacity of blocking off traffic to sweep up and demand charity donations from the motorists – Most gave after just a bit of haggling, but one couple, in a Mercedes no less, just accelerated towards them! » Continue reading Whitchurch Pub Race 2010 » |
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