Welcome to the Official Ledbury Carnival website. Here you will find pictures from past carnivals including the 2009 carnival.
The 2010 Theme will be "Transport and Travel"
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This year carnival princess is Charlotte Jeffreys-Hall (middle), with attendance Karla Alvear and Isabella Bills-Geddes
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for the Procession Entry form |
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for the full size Ledbury Needs You Poster |
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for the Windows Competition Entry form |
As always will be on Sunny Bank Holiday Monday 30 August 2010.
The 2010 will be 13th year covering the event
Click here for 2009 programme of
events
2010 will appear soon.
Pictures for 2009 Event, links below
Here are pictures from the Ledbury Carnival, which takes place every August Bank Monday. Here are some pictures from the 1998 (Bungee Jumping), 1999 (It's a Knockout), 2000 (The Circus), 2001 (Flower Power), 2002 (Royal Pageant), 2003 (Country Carnival), 2004 (Hollywood Comes to Ledbury), 2005 (Greatest Events in History). 2006 (Music). 2007 (Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes), 2008 (Countries of the World), 2009 (TV Carnival). The 2010 theme is Transport and Travel
There are lots of pictures in this section. There are over 250 pages in total!
I also need your help. If you have any old photos from any previous carnival before 1999, please contact me. Any picture used will be built up to a good collection of Carnival Photos and each and every submission used will be credited on this website. Many thanks for the submission so far. There are now several pictures from old carnival including one from 1945. All photos will be returned.
There are 25 pages from the 2009 carnival, from digital camera pictures.
Less than in previous years.
Click on any of the images below. Links are sorted in year order from 2009 to 1998.
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Coming soon, you can download previous programme.
Download the 2007 programme here
Download the 2008 programme here
Ledbury
Carnival 2009 took place on Monday 31 August 2009. The 2009 event was the 35th Ledbury
Carnival and my 12th year covering the event. The theme was TV Carnival.
Tried something different this year. As the carnival draw stall was opposite the main stage, gives me a perfect opportunity to get view from a different side. No Ledbury Primary School Bridge this year, even though I could have got there!
If I can get the footage of the carnival down to a smaller video size, it will appear here. It is just too big at the moment.
Click here for Programme of Events on the Day 2009 in case you missed it
Ledbury
Carnival 2008 took place on Monday 25 August 2008. The 2008 event was the 34th Ledbury
Carnival and my 11th year covering the event. The theme was Countries of the
world. Thanks to Chris Poole and Andy Ward who helped me with taking photos.
This year was different for me. I have not taken photos at the Ledbury Primary School bridge this year. Instead taking them outside Tesco. Also a sneak preview setting up on the Sunday.
Click here for Programme of Events on the Day 2008 in case you missed it
Thanks for Chris Poole and Andy Ward who also helped take photos down at the Rugby Ground.
Ledbury
Carnival 2007 took place on Monday 27 August 2007. The 2007 event was the 33rd
Ledbury Carnival and my 10th year covering the event. The theme was Fairy Tales
and Nursery Rhymes. Thanks to Florence Chan and Chris Poole who helped me with
taking photos.
Click here for Programme of Events on the Day 2007 in case you missed it
Thanks for Chris Poole who also helped take photos down at the Rugby Ground.
Ledbury
Carnival 2006 took place on Monday 28 August 2006. The 2006 event was the 32nd
Ledbury Carnival and my 9th year covering the event. The theme was Music. Thanks
to Florence Chow (from Guangzhou, China!) who helped me with taking photos.
We had a visitor from Swansea visiting the 2006 carnival. Did you travel far to get to the carnival. Let me know.
Ledbury Carnival 2005 took
place on Monday 29 August 2005. The 2005 event was the 31st
Ledbury Carnival. The theme was Greatest Events in history. I had a few friends
helping me take photos and video footage. Many thanks to Linda Richards and
Alison Pearson for helping me on the day. There will be
an official Ledbury Carnival 2005 DVD to be released in November 2005. On sale on
this site.
Yet again I was at 3 locations during the carnival procession. Ledbury Rugby Ground at 11:30, On the stage at 12:30, 12:50 at Ledbury Primary School Bridge. As always there was a running commentary by Hereford Hospital Radio when the float went past the town. At least the weather hold until around 4pm when it started to rain a bit.
The carnival prize draw returned to 2005 after a year break in 2004. Top prize was £100. Other prizes included a TV/Video combi, a portrait, carnival DVDs
There are a collection of photos taken on my digital camera and digital camcorder. There are repeat photos of the procession but from different angles. Happy viewing over 450 photos!
Ledbury Carnival 2004 took
place on Monday 30 August 2004. The 2004 event was the 30th
Ledbury Carnival. The theme was Hollywood Comes To Ledbury. I had a few friends
helping me take photos and video footage. Many thanks to Alistair Pearson,
Matthew Pace Bardon and Natasha Stuart for helping me on the day. An official
DVD of the 2004 event is available via this site.
Yet again I was at 3 locations during the carnival procession. Ledbury Rugby Ground at 11:30, Top cross where the traffic lights were around 12:35, 13:10 at Ledbury Primary School. As always there was a running commentary by Hereford Hospital Radio when the float went past the town.
There are a collection of photos taken on my digital camera and digital camcorder. There are repeat photos of the procession but from different angles. Happy viewing over 450 photos!
Ledbury Carnival 2003 took
place on Monday 25 August 2003. The 2003 event was the 29th
Ledbury Carnival. The 2004 will be it's 30th. The theme was the
Country Carnival. I have used my new digital camera so I took
more photos than I intended to, over 200 photos again. As in 2002,
I was at 3 locations during the carnival procession. Ledbury
Rugby Ground at 11:15, Outside of the Clock
tower where the High Street, Bye Street and the Homend meets at
around 12:15, 13:00 at Ledbury
Primary School. The weather was a big cloudy but it is one of the
biggest I have seen. An estimated 10,000 people turned up. This
year, we had a running commentary by Hereford Hospital Radio when
the float went past the town.
Ledbury
Carnival 2002 took place on Monday 26 August 2001. The 2002 event
was the 28th Ledbury Carnival. The theme was Royal Pageant, in
conjunction with the celebration of the queen jubilee. Yet again,
I had my digital camera, however I ended up taking over 200
photos! I was at 3 locations during the carnival procession. I was
at Ledbury Rugby Ground at 11:15, The High
Street at 12:35 and Ledbury Primary School at
about 12:55. On this and the following few
pages, are a collection of digital images of the Event. It was
not the best of weather being cloudy but it was the biggest
carnival ever staged. An estimated 10,000 people turned up.
The main acts in the 2002 carnival were pop group Red Alert and Queen B (a Freddie Mercury tribute band).
Ledbury Carnival 2001 took place on Monday 27
August 2001. The 2001 event was the 27th Ledbury Carnival. The
theme was Flower Power, in conjunction with Britain in Bloom
competition. The only different compared from the other years, is
that I took only a digital camera and no camcorder. I was at 3
locations during the carnival procession again. I was at MSF at 11:30,
The High Street at 12:35 and Ledbury Primary
School at about 13:10. On this and the following
few pages, are a collection of digital images of the Event. The
weather was the best and reported the hottest August Bank Holiday
in 10 years. Not a cloud in the sky (well a few at least).
The main acts in the 2001 carnival were pop group Red Alert and Merseybeat.
Ledbury
Carnival 2000 took place on Monday 28 August 2000. The 2000 event
was the 26th Ledbury Carnival. It was a bit of a challenge for me
part 2. I tried in 1999 and just made it. I was at 3 locations
during the carnival procession. I was outside MSF Roundabout at
12:00, The New Street at 12:25 and Ledbury Primary School at
about 12:50pm. They changed the route from 1999, hence I had very
little time to run up New Street to meet the procession. I didn't
get to the top in time, and as the High Street was extremely busy,
I thought for a change, take the pictures outside Somerfield in
New Street. I also had a camcorder with me again this year. On
this and the following few pages, are a collection of photos and
camcorder images of the Event. The weather wasn't as good as 1999,
as there was a few spots of rain, but it was sunny. There was
about 8,000 visitors again! As well as the Carnival procession,
Ledbury had its own Circus in the middle of the High Street. What
I didn't know at the time, was that one of the float hit a
building turning out of New Street into the High Street. The £500
first prize in the draw went to a visitor from Germany!
Ledbury
Carnival 1999 took place on Monday 30 August 1999. The 1999 event
was the 25th anniversary year. It was a bit of a challenge for me.
I was at 3 locations during the carnival procession. I was
outside MSF Roundabout at 12:15pm, The High Street at 12:55pm and
Ledbury Primary School at about 13:20. I also had a camcorder
with me. On this and the following few pages, are a collection of
photos and camcorder images of the Event. For the first time, the
carnival route went through the Deer Park Housing estate, due to
a turning restriction at New Street/High Street. Thanks to the
hot sunny weather, there was about 8,000 visitors! As well as the
Carnival procession, Ledbury had its own It's a Knockout
Competition.
Ledbury Carnival 1998 was held on August Bank Holiday, Monday
31 August 1998. The High Street was closed to traffic, so all the
activities could take place in the centre of Ledbury. There was
bungee jumping, an Escapologists, a street fair and many other
events.
For other Ledbury Photos (loads more) and info, please click here for the main index page
The Ledbury Carnival Site is part of the www.myledbury.co.uk group of websites, which includes more pictures of Ledbury including the Fair, Poetry Festival Party, Christmas Lights and many more, including Ledbury on the Television and nothing to do with Ledbury, the Eurovision Song Contest!. Click here to go there (after you have finishing viewing the Ledbury Carnival Website)!!!
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