Wealden Times | WT197 | July 2018 | Interiors supplement inside
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This year’s <strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Midsummer Fair, the fairest of them all...<br />
just like being in a Richard Curtis<br />
film, but instead of Notting Hill it<br />
‘It’s should be called Hole Park’ quipped<br />
our editor, Maggie Alderson, as she gazed<br />
across the sunlit show ground at this<br />
year’s <strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Midsummer Fair,<br />
sponsored by Harpers and Hurlingham.<br />
The cast of Maggie’s movie included a record<br />
numbers of visitors and over 250 retailers who<br />
spilled out of five large marquees and four<br />
tented avenues onto the meadow at Hole Park<br />
selling a fantastic range of furnishings, food,<br />
fashion plus flowers, and plants for the garden.<br />
But the fair wasn’t just about shopping: three<br />
iconic brands, NFU Mutual, Benenden Hospital<br />
Trust and Fenwick partnered <strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
this year to offer free garden, health, beauty<br />
and fashion-themed talks and treatments.<br />
The Garden Hub, sponsored by NFU<br />
Mutual, hosted some wonderful speakers<br />
including David Archer – aka actor Tim<br />
Bentinck – who came all the way from<br />
Ambridge (or at least London…) to talk<br />
about his new book. As well as the Hub,<br />
gardeners gained free entry to Hole<br />
Park’s gardens, pure horticultural<br />
heaven, as part of their ticket price.<br />
In the Health Hub, staff<br />
from Benenden Hospital Trust<br />
answered healthcare questions<br />
plus nurses were on hand to provide cholesterol,<br />
blood glucose and blood pressure tests.<br />
Beauty masterclasses and mini beauty<br />
treatments proved irresistible at the Beauty<br />
Hub, sponsored by Fenwick of Tunbridge Wells.<br />
Visitors enjoyed talks and demonstrations from<br />
brand leaders including Clarins, Charlotte<br />
Tilbury, Dermalogica and Aveda, as well as daily<br />
fashion talks from the Fenwick fashion team.<br />
Every quintessential English summer’s day<br />
deserves a deckchair and the fair’s deckchair<br />
zone hosted live music each day from local<br />
schools Dulwich Prep Cranbrook Jazz Band,<br />
St Ronan’s Jazz Band and Marlborough<br />
House Choir. On Saturday lunchtime<br />
Cranbrook Town Band played for us for<br />
two glorious hours, supplying the perfect<br />
sound track to the spirit of all three days.<br />
Finally, we must thank the weather<br />
gods for delivering sunshine and a gentle<br />
breeze to our movie set each day.<br />
We hope you’ll join us for our next<br />
event, <strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Midwinter Fair on<br />
15, 16 & 17 November <strong>2018</strong> at The<br />
Hop Farm, Paddock Wood. Tickets<br />
are available online from 30 <strong>July</strong>.<br />
Go online to wealdentimes.co.uk/<br />
events/gallery.php to see our<br />
gallery of photos from the fair.
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