Winsham Street Fair 2024


The 2024 Winsham Street Fair is a big success!
A message from the organising committee......

The committee of this years Street Fair are delighted to announce that due to the generosity of both you Winsham locals and the many visitors to our biennial event we have raised £893.00 for our two charities,

Winsham United Charities who help young people from Winsham with funds for books, equipment and travel for college and university and Axe Vale River Association who working in conjunction with Magdalen Farm look after the river in our catchment area.

We had fabulous donations of raffle prizes and the ticket sales made £400.00.

The tombola stall was very popular and sold out by 2pm, more than 80 bottle were kindly given by many of you, the stall made £120.00.

The cake bakers amongst you provided the most delicious assortment of cakes, the stall made £373.00

Thank you to all who made this day such fun, the whole village was represented, School, Church, Shop, Hall, Club, Horticulture Club, Arts Club, Pub and with beautiful stalls selling crafts, plants, clothing and toys a good time was had by all.

We have secured permission and paid for closing the street in 2026 at the same time as we applied for this years closure, two for the price of one and a great saving! This is a terrific help with funding our next fair. Our next fund raiser will be the village calendar for 2025 and we hope to get your photos very soon, entry open to all, the theme of “The Elements”.

Winsham Street Fair Organising Committee-25th June 2024

The first Street Fair of the modern era was held in 1985 with the theme of the 'Pitch Fork Rebellion'. The latest, held on 22nd June 2024 had 'The Elements' as a theme.
Many of Winsham's major organisations and resources gathered together to make the event well attended and very successful. A brief 'photo summary' is shown below. A much fuller account with many more pictures will appear on the Winsham Web Museum, accessed from the 'Winsham at Play' area, located on the Museum's Home Page.

The above pictures were taken by Tony Parfoot, in Church Street.
The picture below was taken from the top of St. Stephen's tower by David Vickers
And the Street Fair Committee sent this picture......and not a 'Hell's Angel' in sight!

More pictures recording the event will be added to the Winsham Web Museum over the next few weeks.

Winsham’s Street Fair has its roots in the 13th century, and even now, seven hundred and  sixty-one years later, Winsham’s 21st Century residents still know that this biennial  celebration is a good day out!

When Athelm , the Bishop of Bath and Wells, awarded the charter, in1262,  to hold an annual

 street fair in Winsham on the 29th June, on the Feast of St. Peter & Paul, did he know what he

 was what he was starting?  

He was later to  become the Archbishop of Canterbury; just a coincidence or was it his reward?

In the 21st Century, we have Winsham Street Fair  celebrated on the last Saturday of June, every

two years.

The  present cycle of Winsham Street Fairs started in 1985, with a theme based on the two

 hundred year’s anniversary of  the Duke of Monmouth’s ‘Pitchfork’ rebellion.  

Each Winsham Street Fair has a different theme.

 

 

To view pictures of the seventeen Winsham Street Fairs since1985
CLICK HERE