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Lancing Carnival 1958 |
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 Saturday 19th July 1958 was Lancing and Sompting Carnival Day, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Lancing. I thought you would like to be taken back in time to a gentler more complicated world. We can do this courtesy of John Goodman who supplied the cuttings and to UE who scanned the image for me. May thanks to John and UE! The programme remind you that the first prize in the raffle is "a 17 in television set donated with compliments by H Davis Outdoor Amusement Contractor and supplied by R Shoulders, 3-5 North Road Lancing" The then Chairman of the Lancing Parish Council, John Thornberry noted that he "hope they will be favoured by a fine spell of weather" On Friday 18th July there was to be a "Grand Firework Display on Beach Green" by H Davis, outdoor amusement contractor On Saturday 19th July there was to be a "Rescue Demonstration" off Lancing Beach by Shoreham Lifeboat crew assisted by Rotn. Jack Holmes (weather permitting) At 4.30 pm the Carnival Queen was to present prizes and draw winning tickets for TV raffle In the programme, Penstone Hotel Lancing (opposite Post Office) had lunch from 12.30 - 2 pm available at 3 shillings
The Worthing Gazette of Wednesday 23rd July 1958 covered the Carnival. "Thousands of people lined the three mile route from Lancing Manor along Upper Boundstone Road, Busticle Lane, Cokeham Road, Crabtree Lane, North Road and South Street in the Lancing and Sompting carnival procession on Saturday" "Carnival Queen Cynthia Gunn and her attendants Dorothy Peffers (left) and Christine Campion"
"Girls enjoy the fair rides and ice lollies proved popular again"
John Goodman is his prize winning Elizabethan costume
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