Lord Mayor’s Blog 57
This year the Lady Mayoress and I had the great pleasure of attending the Middle-earth Weekend at Sarehole Mill in an official capacity.
Naturally, as locals and Tolkien enthusiasts we are there every year and the Lady Mayoress has been instrumental in the organisation in the past.
This year’s event was another great success. As you can see, one of the smaller dragons was taking a worrying degree of interest in the Mayoral Gold! Fortunately, nerves were soothed later on with the aid of the Hurdy Gurdy man.
There were an estimated 14,000 visitors over the weekend, to this traditional family festival, provided free of charge and with old-fashioned entertainments as well of course as the Tolkien dimension.
Birmingham has much to be proud of with the landscapes of The Shire reflecting the Sarehole Area. We should make more of this connection. Perhaps the advent of the next two films (one of The Hobbit and one covering the period between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) will provide a springboard.
This year the Lady Mayoress and I had the great pleasure of attending the Middle-earth Weekend at Sarehole Mill in an official capacity.
Naturally, as locals and Tolkien enthusiasts we are there every year and the Lady Mayoress has been instrumental in the organisation in the past.
This year’s event was another great success. As you can see, one of the smaller dragons was taking a worrying degree of interest in the Mayoral Gold! Fortunately, nerves were soothed later on with the aid of the Hurdy Gurdy man.
There were an estimated 14,000 visitors over the weekend, to this traditional family festival, provided free of charge and with old-fashioned entertainments as well of course as the Tolkien dimension.Birmingham has much to be proud of with the landscapes of The Shire reflecting the Sarehole Area. We should make more of this connection. Perhaps the advent of the next two films (one of The Hobbit and one covering the period between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) will provide a springboard.
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