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06 March 2010
Due to contractural problems there are currently no Boot Fairs planned for 2010
(Issued 5/3/10)
09 November 2009
Christmas lights are switched on in Tenbury at 6pm on the 20th November
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What is Mistletoe
Wholesale Mistletoe Auction | |
The Wholesale Mistletoe Auction dates are on different days. For 2009 these will be on 24th November, 1st December and 8th December. All starting from about 0930 and based at the Little Hereford yard. | |
What is the Mistletoe Festival? | |
Tenbury Wells - England's Mistletoe Town - holds its annual Mistletoe Festival in late November and early December. Main events take place on the 1st December Saturday which is National Mistletoe Day. For 2009 this will be December 5th. The town's traditional wholesale Mistletoe Auctions take place in the preceding and following weeks. The Mistletoe Festival paired up with Tenbury's annual Applefest back in October - a celebration of Tenbury's apple orchards (where most of the mistletoe grows!). | |
Background to the Mistletoe Festival | |
| Tenbury's Mistletoe Festival began in 2004, when the traditional Mistletoe Auctions, held in the town for over 100 years, seemed threatened with closure. Local people were determined Tenbury's Mistletoe legacy would continue, and so the Festival was born. | |
From small beginnings in 2004 much bigger Festivals ran in 2005 and 2006. One fixture, established in 2005, is National Mistletoe Day, endorsed by Parliament in 2005 and set to take place on 1st December each year. The future of the traditional holly and mistletoe sales at the old livestock market is still not certain - the site remains vacant and liable for development. But the auctions continued in 2005 and 2006. In 2007 the auction tradition continued, but at a new out-of-town venue. | |
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