Jubilee Riverside Festival 1

Friday 1st June - Sunday 17th June 2012

In association with Twickenham Town Business Association Twickenham Alive sponsored by the Rugby Football Union

Welcome To The Twickenham Riverside Jubilee Festival 2012 Twickenham Alive is pleased to be organisers of the Twickenham Riverside Jubilee Festival, which was inspired by the success of the Twickenham Riverside Regatta in September 2011.

The Festival will include three days of river based activities, while Church Street will host a Jubilee Street Party, Craft Market and an Italian Market. St Mary’s Church will be holding their annual Fayre. There will be many open days including Turner’s House, Pope’s Grotto, the Mary Wallace Theatre, Richmond Yacht Club, Twickenham Yacht Club and .

The Twickenham Riverside Jubilee Festival will start with the traditional Tug of War outside the Barmy Arms and the popular Morris dancers will be making their customary appearance. Twickenham Alive aims to bring new events to the Festival and will be working up until the last minute to make this the most exciting festival to take place in Twickenham.

None of this could happen without local sponsors, the RFU and Stone Rowe Brewer, and partners such as Twickenham Rowing Club, Active 360, the Twickenham Town Business Association, Monkeypuzzle and Richmond Council.

The Rugby Football Union supports the Twickenham Riverside Jubilee Festival

The Rugby Football Union sponsors worthwhile initiatives to benefit our local community.

We are delighted to provide support for the Twickenham Riverside Jubilee Festival, which covers a number of local events throughout the town allowing residents and visitors to enjoy all that Twickenham has to offer.

Fraser Cullen RFU Community Relations Manager Stone Rowe Brewer LLP, delivering First Class legal services for over 35 years Sponsor of the Twickenham Riverside Jubilee celebrations 12-13 Church Street, Twickenham, 020 8891 6141 www.srb.co.uk [email protected]

Timetable / Programme

Friday 1st June (16) Strawberry Hill Jazz Festival - 12:00 to 21:00 (1) Tug of War - 18:00 Strawberry Hill, Waldegrave Road Barmy Arms Pub, The Embankment (16) HANDS Fair - 10:00 to 18:00 Twickenham Green Saturday 2nd June (2) Charlie Shore’s Regatta - 10:00 to 20:00 Tuesday 5th June The Embankment (5) Church Street Jubilee Party - 11:30 to 11:30 (3) Water Zorbing - 10:00 to 20:00 Church Street Champion’s Wharf, The Embankment (3) Martial Arts Display - 18:00 (12) Stalls - 10:00 to 19:00 The Embankment The Embankment (13) Live Music Stage - 14:00 to 20:00 Wednesday 6th June The Embankment (19) Eel Pie Club - 20:45 (4) Shetland Pony Rides - 10:00 to 20:00 The Cabbage Patch, London Road Statue Gardens (10) Children’s Fairground - 10:00 to 20:00 Thursday 7th June The Embankment (15) Jubilee Festival Cruise - 18:00 to 21:00 (5) Church Street Craft Market - 11:00 to 17:30 Min Y Don, Church Street (6) St Mary’s Church Fayre - 10:00 to 15:00 Friday 8th June St Mary’s Church, Church Street (9) D-Day Dance - 19:00 (5) (6) (1) Morris Dancers - 12:00, 13:00 & 16:00 Richmond Yacht Club, Eel Pie Island Church Street, St Mary’s & Barmy Arms (17) Turner’s House Open Day - 10:00 to 12:00 Saturday 9th June Sandycombe Lodge, 40 Sandycombe Road (10) Twickenham Alive Blue Mile (16) Pope’s Grotto Tours - 10:30 & 11:30 10:00 to 20:30 - The Embankment School, Cross Deep (4) Shetland Pony Rides (7) Mary Wallace Theatre Open Day - 10:00 to 18:00 10:00 to 20:00 - Statue Gardens Mary Wallace Theatre, The Embankment (1) Children’s Fairground (8) Twickenham Rowing Club Open Day - 10:00 to 10:00 to 20:00 – The Embankment 18:00 (12) Stalls Twickenham Rowing Club, Eel Pie Island 10:00 to 19:00 – The Embankment (13) Live Music Stage Sunday 3rd June 14:00 to 20:00 – The Embankment (16) Strawberry Hill Jazz Festival - 12:00 to 21:00 (17) Turner’s House Open Day Strawberry Hill, Waldegrave Road 10:00 to 12:00 - Sandycombe Lodge, 40 Sandycombe (19) Twickenham Folk Club - 20:00 Road The Cabbage Patch, London Road (16) Pope’s Grotto Tours 10:30 & 11:30 - Radnor House School, Cross Deep (9) Strawberries & Cream Afternoon 14:00 to 17:00 - Richmond Yacht Club, Eel Pie Islan Sunday 10th June (19) Twickenham Folk Club Monday 4th June 20:00 – The Cabbage Patch, London Road (11) Twickenham Yacht Club Open Day 11:00 to 16:00 - Twickenham Yacht Club, (12) Stalls Riverside 10:00 to 19:00 – The Embankment (10) Children’s Fairground Tuesday 12th June 10:00 to 20:00 – The Embankment (17) Royal Oak Jumblelee (1) Live Music Stage 12:00 to 17:00 - Royal Oak Pub, Richmond Road 14:00 to 18:00 – Barmy Arms, The Embankment (3) Martial Arts Display (5) Italian Market 18:00 - The Embankment 09:00 to 19:00 - Church Street (17) Turner’s House Open Day Wednesday 13th June 10:00 to 12:00 - Sandycombe Lodge, 40 (15) Jubilee Festival Cruise Sandycombe Road 18:00 to 21:00 - Min Y Don, Eel Pie Island Sunday 17th June Thursday 14th June (5) Italian Market (19) Comedy Night 09:00 to 19:00 - Church Street 20:00 – The Cabbage Patch, London Road (14) (18) Twickenham Carnival 10:00 to 17:00 – York House to Friday 15th June Gallery, Riverside (5) Italian Marke09:00 to 19:00 - Church Street Saturday 16th June (2) SRB Dragon Boat Races 10:00 to 19:00 - The Embankment Memories of Twickenham Riverside The Richmond Ice Rink in East Twickenham was installing a small ice rink in the grounds of York House known all over the world. Famous skating stars Torvill this Christmas. We will be working on this project in and Dean were among millions of people who used the coming months and hope that you will support us. the rink during its twenty-three year lifetime before its doors finally closed in 1992. Since this time the ice rink has become a legend in Twickenham and it does not take long in any gathering before the ice rink is mentioned.

Residents in the borough are always on the look out for a permanent ice rink site but so far none has been found. Over the years local newspaper headlines have included “Plans for station ice rink come up again”, “Last chance for a Richmond ice rink”, “The best ice rink in the world’”, “Is ice rink set for brewery site?” and “Twickenham’s ice rink could return”. The Old Richmond Ice Rink in East Twickenham

Temporary ice rinks are particularly popular in this www.twickenhamalive.com country and Twickenham Alive is working towards Remember Twickenham’s Opening Swimming Pool? Memories of Twickenham Riverside is a community RICHMOND HOUSE project, run by the Richmond Environmental THE FORMER TWICKENHAM RIVERSIDE OPEN Information Centre and funded by the Heritage AIR SWIMMING POOL Lottery Fund. It is focused on the Twickenham Riverside sites below, which will celebrate the rich QUEEN’S HALL heritage of this area through an Oral History and CHARLIE SHORE’S BOAT HOUSE collect the wealth of knowledge and memories from TWICKENHAM ROWING CLUB on EEL PIE ISLAND people that live or have lived in the area that should be recorded before they are lost. We are also interested in information to do with the immediate area, e.g. Church Street, the Eel Pie Hotel If you have memories of any of the sites listed below and its former music scene or if you have memories passed down from family members perhaps you would like to share these with Email: [email protected] present and future generations. Any memorabilia such as post cards, photographs and cine film will www.memoriesoftwickenhamriverside.com be copied (then returned) as part of the project. The project output will be archived by the Council and it is hoped that a home for a permanent exhibition will be found. Osteria Pulcinella 36 Church Street, Twickenhamv TW1 3NR Tel: 020 8892 5854 www.osteriapulcinella.co.uk

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The Twickenham Alive Blue Mile

World Oceans Day on 8th June will be the start of three days of events across the UK when people will be raising funds to support the work of the WWF (Wild Wildlife Fund) to protect rivers, seas and oceans.

In the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames the Twickenham Alive Blue Mile, a supported Blue Mile event, will have a programme of river activities and a sponsored Walk for Water.

The title sponsor race, the Ecover Blue Mile, will follow a course along Twickenham Riverside, in front of Eel Pie Island and finishing at Eel Pie Bridge. This will follow a series of Kayak and Stand Up Paddle Board sprint events and the One Mile Walk for Water along a beautiful and engaging circular route from Eel Pie Bridge, down river to Orleans Gardens (Hammerton Ferry) and back again.

Entry to the Twickenham Alive Blue Mile, in association with Naish UK and Active 360, includes all equipment – Kayak or Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUP) board, paddle and buoyancy aids. Participants can enter individual events or can sign up for a package that will include the Blue Mile paddle and two sprint races. Participants are required to pre-register before the event online at www.thebluemile.org AL FRESCO IN CHURCH STREET

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Twickenham Carnival Sunday 17 June, 12 noon – 5pm Orleans House Gallery

Watch the riverside come alive with the sights and sounds of the Caribbean as the vibrant carnival parade makes its way from York House to the carnival village in the grounds of Orleans House Gallery. Join the crowds in a global celebration of traditional dance and music from around the globe, welcoming the world to London for 2012.

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