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Wirral scarecrow festival cancelled again
12:01pm Wednesday 30th April 2008
Comments (13)The popular Thornton Hough scarecrow festival has been cancelled for the second year in a row.
The event was called off last year at the height of its popularity although it was expected to return this summer.
But this week, organisers revealed there would be no 2008 event and no decision has yet been made regarding the festival in 2009.
In 2006, the festival attracted more than 35,000 visitors from right across the UK.
It won the Mersey Award Tourism Award for Small Event of the Year in 2004 and the festival has previously raised £75,000 for village projects.
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lLord Thomas of oxton, birkenhead says...
10:37pm Wed 30 Apr 08
lets have this event in Birkenhead Park it can have all people taken part from all over wirral, schools comps , pub comps all charities comp and raise funds for all.
It appears a selfish crew are choosing when and how to have the event. please correct me if I am wrong. Why is it cancelled for the 2nd year running?
lets use Birkenhead Park for this event and all can enjoy it .
Ragnar, Berlin-Preussen. says...
4:54am Thu 1 May 08
But this week, organisers revealed there would be no 2008 event and no decision has yet been made regarding the festival in 2009.
Aye?? So is one of your amateure reportes going to tell us WHY?
Or is that a national secret?
jezza, says...
8:56am Thu 1 May 08
Chris Bindall, Wirral says...
10:59am Thu 1 May 08
Ragnar, Berlin-Preussen. says...
11:42am Thu 1 May 08
Chris Bindall wrote:Unlike you.
I see Ragnar\'s out of the special hospital.
Ragnar, Berlin-Preussen. says...
11:44am Thu 1 May 08
Chris Bindall wrote:Unlike you.
I see Ragnar's out of the special hospital.
Jim, Bidston says...
12:03am Fri 2 May 08
The villagers in Thornton Hough may not want the festival any more but they should say so and allow others to take the idea forward elsewhere on the Wirral instead of being indecisive and non-committal about next year. As has already been mentioned, this event could operate elsewhere around Wirral Wirral and terminate at Birkenhead Park or Vale Park in Wallasey at the end of a "Wirral Scarecrow Trek".
If Thornton Hough does not want to operate this popular Festival the say so and allow others to take it forward please.
JIMBOB, says...
9:15am Fri 2 May 08
Shirley Brown, says...
9:47pm Fri 2 May 08
Jack Frost, birkenhead says...
6:46pm Mon 5 May 08
you're a bunch of selfish tw8ts
john, says...
10:56am Tue 6 May 08
Fairy Nuff, Wallasey says...
9:47am Sat 7 Jun 08
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Jack Frost, birkenhead says...
12:22pm Wed 30 Apr 08
My family have enjoyed this festival over the years, if Thornton Hough doesn't want visitors why for goodness sake did they start the feckin festival in the first place?
I suspect that this cancellation is caused by lazy nimbyists who have moved into the area and don't have the imagination or know how to make a scare crow !
I come from a long line of scarecrows, and if I had carried on the family tradition, it is said that I would have been outstanding in my field.