Sunday 12 May 2013

Hereford River Carnival

                                         






Unfortunately we have very little information  regarding the Hereford River Carnival. Started in the 1960s it run through to 1973. The carnival was organised by the City Council to follow on from the Belmont Plate which was an amateur race for tub fours. This was run in the day whilst the River Carnival was run on the same evening, usually late summer. Lots of local companies had entries. Bulmers, Smart & Brown, Painters, Denco etc...
The Hereford Silver Band played and families turned out and lined the banks. Kids, water and darkness was a recipe for disaster but we don’t think there ever was one. All this was followed by the fireworks display on the Castle Green.


Many Thanks to John Baker, Bob Snowzell and John Ruck for the great pics.

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3 comments:

Alison said...

We used to go every year it was magical. The floats were amazing then the fireworks spectacular. Mind you the river was wider and deeper then they would not be able to do it now.

Annette said...

The Reggata on the Wye was much earlier than the 60's, I was born in 1948 and every year we had a wonderful day on the river bank watching the beautiful boat displays, we had new best outfits especially for the occasion, always had a picnic (weather permiting) then either over to the Sarescens Head on the bridge for vimto n Smiths crisps, and then popped into the garden of the Vaga for more pop n crisps, WONDERFUL MEMORIES

Goherefordshire said...

Hereford Carnival was amazing, what was the reason it stopped?