Well Dressing

The 2010 Well Dressing, the 166th event, will take place from Saturday 29th May to Monday 31st May. Following the Thanksgiving Service in St. Lukes Parish Church at 1.30pm. The procession will proceed to the Village where the well will be blessed at 2.45pm. Miss. Georgia Malbirch will be crowned the 2010 Well Dressing Queen at 3pm.

Further crownings on Saturday at 6pm and on Monday also at 3pm and 6pm. Events will take place on the Well Dressing field, the Ashes field and in the roadway of the Village Centre. Entrance to the field is at relatively nominal charge, but those outside the field are free.

 Activities during the weekend include:

  • Maypole Dancing
  • Brass Band
  • Fine Foods Marquee
  • Model Aircraft
  • Gaunts Retinue
  • Duck Race
  • Pet Show
  • Songs of Praise
  • Classic Cars

And much, much more...

Field Entrance Fees for 2010

  Adult Child
Saturday £2.50 (£1.00) £1.00
Sunday £1.50 (£0.50) £0.50
Monday £3.00 (£1.50) £1.50

 

 

Endon Well Dressing 2009

The large well dressing for the 2009 Festival

The design carried the inscription, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink".

 

Left Hand Board

Swainsley Hall, home of Sir Thomas Wardle

The Board

The Beagle used by Charled Darwin

Right Hand Board

St. Margarets' Church. Somerstay, Lincolnshire

 

Also Descripted

Anniversaries of Staffordshire W.I, Wedgewood Pottery Co, Austin Mini and Triumph Bonneville

 

Small Well

Humpty Dumpty

Children's Contributions

By the pupil of Endon St. Lukes and Endon Hall Primary Schools

Small Well

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe