All Saints Church Fetes
Sir Alec Douglas Home c.1982, with Rev Rodney Smith
Stan Smith
Sir Michael Redgrave (left) with Rev. Peter Wadsworth (right) and Felicity Smith, Jeff Wheeler, Celia Wilmott Smith, Janet Soane
Stan Smith
Simon Williams, popular actor, opens East Meon Church Fete 1980s.
Stan Smith
Church Fete, Simon Williams and children in sports kit
William Douglas Home draws tombola tickets
Skittles at Church Fete or School Fair. Andrew Atherton, Jeanette Whitear, front Michaela or Casey Whitear
left to right, Audrey Street, Mrs Fisher, Bridget Lambert, Betty May (District Nurse) and Rosemary Ryder
Stan Smith
Church Fete, Eileen Atkinson and Jane Atkinson.
David Goddard, Sheila Newbury
Church Fete. Rosemary Ryder, Tony Crockford, Margaret Pelly, Adrian Pelly
Blendworth Brass Band accompanied most Church Fetes
Bottle_stall
Michael Blakstad
Frencn hoopla
Michael Blakstad
Church Fete. From left, Sheila Newbury, Iris Porter, ?, Rev Peter Wadsworth
Maypole dance at Church Fete
Jam_stall - L to R Hazel Rendle, Jane Simms, Jane Brown
Michael Blakstad
Egg & spoon race (played with tennis balls)
Michael Blakstad
Dropping the egg
Linda Redpath starting three-legged race
Start of three-legged race
Michael Blakstad
Pair falls in three-legged race
Finish of three-legged race web
Start of three-legged race
Three-legged competitors
Annual Fetes, often held in the garden of Cross Keys, have been regular social fund-raising events. When the playwright William Douglas Home (brother of the Prime Minister Sir Alec) lived in Drayton House, a regular supply of showbusiness and political celebrities were invited to open the fetes.
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