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VICTORIAN FESTIVAL NEWSLETTER SUMMER2020

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A MESSAGE FROM HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA I wish you well during this challenging time and hope everyone keeps safe!

We must do what we can to protect ourselves, as we all must. Good luck to all those being badly affected by events.

It's a very worrying time for us. I hope you are all in good health, and the Coronavirus pandemic will soon be over.

Stay healthy and we'll get through this together.

My heart hurts about how people are suffering now, so please stay safe and well.

Albert and I send our thoughts and prayers to all my subjects in Llandrindod Wells and we wish you all the best and please stay healthy.

This is going to be a challenging time for everyone but we must all do what we can to help each other through this.

Hopefully the steps in place will help. I wish you all good health; my prayers are with you all.

Let us pray all this coronavirus pandemic ends soon.

I look forward to being with you all again at our 40th anniversary in 2021, or even earlier on 24thMay 2021 for my birthday if conditions permit. I sincerely hope that the situation in the world will improve soon.

Take care of yourselves and stay healthy.

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The Llandrindod Wells Victorian Festival would like to take this opportunity to welcome its new

Friends and thank its loyal Friends for their on-going support.

By championing the Festival the Friends enable planning for the

future, development of ideas and the creation of events, which are enjoyed by thousands of people

every year. Without The Friends the Festival would not exist in the way that it

does. Subscription for couples is £15 per

year & £10 for individuals. Please contact us at

admin@victorian-festival.co.uk We prefer subscription for

2020/2021 to be paid via BAC’s or by cheque.

Details elsewhere in this newsletter

Having to cancel this years Victorian Festival has causedfinancialproblemsaswehavecontinuingmonthlypaymentsfor storage facilities and the Internet. With no income untilJuneof2021weareaskingfordonationstohelpusoverthenext12monthstoassistuswithourplanning,alsotoaskthatsubscriptions to be paid for this year. This can either be bychequemadepayable to the ‘Victorian Festival’ orbyBAC’s,whichduetosocialdistancingweprefer.

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We thank you for your present and continuing support andlook forward to our 40th Anniversary next year in themeantimestaysafeandsecureuntilweallmeetagain.

Friends can also join the 100 Club, paying by direct credit of £5 per month of which 50% goes to

the Festival, the other 50% towards a 1st, 2nd and two

3rd prizes. To join or for more information

please contact denise@victorian-festival.co.uk

At the moment the income is £160 per month of which £80 is

prizes and £80 goes to the festival.

1st Prize £40 2nd Prize £20

2 x 3rd Prizes £10 each.

PLEASE SUPPORT US!

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BORED!TryourQuizzes

1. Name the Scottish Gillie Queen Victoria Is Rumoured To Have Had An Affair With?

2. Which Prime Minister Made Victoria Empress Of India?

3. The Victoria Cross Is Generally Made From Guns From Which War?

4. Which Was The First Book Written By Charles Dickens That Brought Him Fame?

5. Who Was The British Prime Minister At The Time Of The Battle Of Sebastopol?

6. Which City Was The Capital Of The Ottoman Empire?

7. Which Victorian Poet Had A Club Foot?

8. Which Prince Of Saxe Cobourg Gotha Married Queen Victoria?

9. To Within 1 How Many Children Did Victoria Have?

10. Where Would You Find Osborne House?

NAME THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS

OPPOSITE

Send your answers to me at admin@victorian-festival.co.uk

The first 10 Friends with the

correct answers sent to me will be given free tickets to

Gerald Dickens performance at the Albert Hall Theatre

Tuesday, 24th August 2021

“The Life & Times of Nicholas Nickleby”

and “Mr Dickens is Coming”

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FINANCES Many thanks to the friends and management

team who have made donations to the Festival and to those member of the 100 Club who have

also donated their winning to the Festival. We are, at the moment able to cover all

expenditure to the end of 2020. However, 2021 will be the 40th anniversary of

the Llandrindod Wells Victorian Festival, which we want to be spectacular, so please

donate to the festival whenever and whatever you can.

We also ask that although nothing is happening in 2020 that friends still pay their subscriptions

to help us prepare for 2021. With the time we now have until next years

Victorian Festival, it also gives me more time to explore other avenues to obtain grant and

donations. We prefer all donations and subscription

wherever possible (due to lockdown) to be paid via BAC’s direct to our account, cheques can

still be posted to us. Our bank details are:

Victorian Festival

Sort code : 20-71-75 Account number : 63733513

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again Charles Dickens

Planning is well under way for our 40th anniversary in 2021 and our website is

regularly updated. All the old favorites’ will be back including

a Gerald Dickens double bill. Alison Neil will entertain us with the story of E Nesbit performing “Larks & Magic.”

The Grand Victorian Ball (practice this year for 2021). Entertainment, from the

Friends of the Festival and Jan Swindale. Tea dances, competitions, fancy dress and

seven days of fun on Temple Gardens; Tony, Anne, Jan, Marina, Denise and

myself look forward to the planning and especially to meeting you all again in 2021.

CONTACT Chris Hartley

Victorian Festival, Flat 2, Cefnllys Lane Llandrindod Wells LD1 5LD

Telephone : 01597825012 Mobile : 07513463168

Website: www.victorian-festiva;.co.uk Email: admin@victorian-festival.co.uk