Celebrating 20 years of the Festival in Wolvercote and Wytham. See the first 2003 programme.
The Wolvercote and Wytham Midsummer Festival Anniversary Bench has been a long time in the planning, designing, implementing and installing, but here it is unveiled by one of our dearest village treasures, Sheila Pargeter*, one of the Festival’s founders 20 years ago. Also enjoying the rustic charm is Charlotte Fenton who suggested the idea in the first place. Huge thanks to our festival Chair, Teresa Woodbridge who organized the funding and kept nudging the project to its final reality. This could not have happened without the generous help from Julian Cooper and his Oxford Direct Services (ODS) team who provided the large and characterful piece of oak and installed the bench. Thanks too must be given to artist, Richard Fox, who turned a drawing by Jo Malden into a wonderfully sculpted engraving representing the festival logo with flying goose and bunting. You may notice the Wolvercote Community Market logo in the left-hand corner which is in recognition of their kind donation towards the project, and the crown that you will find in the right-hand corner is a nod to this historical coronation year.
Please sit and tarry a while on this bench if you are passing.