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Food & Drink Festival gourmet marquees are open!
The gourmet food marquees opened to the public at 1pm on Friday and, despite the rain, hundreds of people poured into the site in the first hour. The site has been in construction all week and looks magnificent. There’s a huge gourmet food marquee, a Taste of Staffordshire marquee, Titanic beer tent (sure to...
Shoppers brave the rain for first festival farmers’ market
Published on 1 Oct, 2010 at 14:27 in Food & Drink Festival | Viewed 151 times | No Comments
Well, it pelted it down! But that didn’t stop hundreds of shoppers visiting the first Food & Drink Festival farmers’ market in the High Street. It was brollies and Wellington boots all round as the festival got the worst possible start in terms of the weather. But good news – the sun will be...
Minibus Real Ale Trail – by Twitter!
Published on 28 Sep, 2010 at 23:38 in Food & Drink Festival | Viewed 52 times | No Comments
Tuesday night saw the first Titanic Minibus Real Ale Trail of this year’s Stone Food & Drink Festival – and one man on board kept people updated via Twitter. James Billingham (@bilstar on Twitter) posted updates and photos throughout Tuesday night, and they were great to read! The pubs featured on the trail this...
First marquee goes up for big Food & Drink Festival weekend
Published on 27 Sep, 2010 at 19:37 in Food & Drink Festival | Viewed 50 times | No Comments
The first marquee has gone up at Westbridge Park ahead of the big Food & Drink Festival weekend that kicks off on Friday. The huge 260ft-long marquee took a team of six men from Burgoynes Marquees in Herefordshire all day to put up – and they’ve got more to erect over the next few...
Help Keep Stone Tidy during the Food & Drink Festival
Published on 9 Sep, 2010 at 19:36 in Food & Drink Festival | Viewed 11 times | No Comments
Keep Stone Tidy is looking for volunteers to help litter-pick Westbridge Park and the surrounding areas during Stone Food & Drink Festival. The central litter collection point will be at Westbridge Park – home to the huge Gourmet Food Marquee – on Friday 1st, Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd October. For more information –...
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