Last year’s winner: Wish you were here by the Thompson family of Coldwell LaneOver 20 households in the neighbourhood will be displaying a scarecrow in their front garden as part of a scarecrow competition at this year’s Crosspool Festival.
The list of roads where we are expecting to see scarecrows is below. Happy hunting!
Street
Scarecrow names/themes
Benty Lane
CarnivalBeavers around the world join the carnival
Barholm Road
Ellie FaulknerJessica Ennis
Barnfield Drive
Carnival
Cardoness Road
Rio the carnival bird
Den Bank Crescent
Doriteia de Den Bank
Domingo de Den Bank
Dransfield Road
Rio the carnival queen
Take a Daly dive
Forres Road
Olympic cheer girl
Hagg Lane
Action!
Lydgate Lane
Rio Olympics
Manchester Road
Bob the Olympic scooter champion
Rosie Arch
Arthur the Archer
Goalkeeper Graham
Golfing Bob
Horse riding hero
The fat golfer
Jazzy javelin
It’s time to vote in this year’s Crosspool Festival photography competition!
People were invited to submit a photo on the theme action.
The judges have shortlisted photos in two categories and would like you to choose which best tells a story to the viewer and that really captures the theme.
Vote using the two polls below.
Category 1: photos by secondary school age students
Choose one photo from three. Make your choice using the poll under all three photos.
1. Jumping into Summer2. Too much. Too empty. Set me free3. Lots of action in the early morning sky as Crosspool comes to life
Category 2: photos by adults
Choose one photo from three. Make your choice using the poll under all three photos.
1. Bob the dog, running on the beach. This is Bob, our Irish Setter who sadly died last year. He was such a character, full of love and full of life. We miss him a lot.2. Alex Latham, 13 year old Junior racer from Crosspool, competing in the Super Moto 140 race3. Prayer flags fluttering in the wind over the Gokyo Valley in the Himalayas
The adult winner’s photo will also be included in this year’s Crosspool Calendar. The best three in each category will be put on the Crosspool Forum website www.crosspool.info and voting for the winners will start from Monday 20 June. The exhibition at St Columba’s will display all the entries on Wednesday 29 June from 1.30pm-4.30pm. You can also meet photographers from Sheffield Photographic Society, see their photos on display and ask them your photo questions. Maybe we can start a local photography group? The winners will be announced at St Columba’s on Wednesday29 June at 4pm. Tea and coffee will be provided by St Columba’s.
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Last year’s winning scarecrow by the Thompson family of Coldwell Lane
From Rachel Suddrick, Sally Parkinson, Debbie Boyd and Beckie Howe:
We would like to invite you to join in with the Crosspool Festival scarecrow competition. The theme for the festival is Carnival and the Olympics so we would like you as a family to make a scarecrow that represents either. This might be a sportsman, Brazilian carnival queen or a carnival animal, go wild and use your imagination!
If you have not made a scarecrow before, it is easier than you might think and there is lots of information and advice online.
All scarecrows need to be displayed on or in the front of your home, visible from the road. This might be in a window, a front garden or even on your door! You can make them as big or as small as you like!
They should be in place by 10 am on Saturday 25 June and should remain in place throughout the festival. Each entry will be judged by local sculpture Noel Lockley at some point during the festival. Winners will be announced on Saturday 3 July at the Festival Fayre. This year we are also adding a local children’s group category, so if you are involved in any group that works with children in Crosspool, then please ask them if they would like to enter a crow.
Monday 13 June is the closing date for the scarecrow competition.
The prizes this year are
1st 2 season tickets for 2016/17 at HALLAM FC
2nd a family pass for CANNON HALL FARM
3rd £25 voucher for uncle Sams donated by AFP VAN AND MORORHOME HIRE
Children’s groups can also enter, the prize for this section is a £25 voucher for an outlet of your choice sponsored by PLANCON
All enteries will receive a prize sponsored by SHERWOOD BUILDING SERVICES
You can enter via Nest cafe or by emailing beckiegreenuk@yahoo.co.uk. Please supply the following information:
Family name or group name:
Scarecrow name/theme:
Address the scarecrow will be displayed at:
Contact number:
You’ll also need to supply a £3 entry fee.
All profits will be split between LISA and FOLA. Entry forms can also be collected and returned to Nest in Crosspool. If you go to school in Crosspool but don’t live in Crosspool and would still like to join in, please contact us and we will arrange for your scarecrow to be displayed.
We hope you have great fun making your scarecrows together as a family and will enjoy spotting scarecrows around Crosspool during the festival week. A list of roads on which we expect scarecrows to be displayed will be available to collect from NEST from Friday 17 June and on this website.
The 51 and 52 buses heading towards town will take a different route near the university and Weston Park from Monday 13 June.
Routes 51, 52 and 52a will now turn right onto Clarkson Street at the Children’s Hospital. They will then turn left onto Durham Road, where there will be a new bus stop, before joining Glossop Road then West Street.
The 2016 festival runs Friday 24 June-3 July, with the Summer Fayre scheduled for Saturday 2 July.
This year’s festival theme is Carnival, a summer party with great activities happening on the streets to coincide with this year’s Olympics in Brazil, the queen’s 90th celebrations and more besides.
The organisers are hoping it’ll be a colourful and exciting week for the community to get out and about, meet the neighbours, make new friends and try new activities.
You may have already picked up a copy of the programme from one of our local shops. If not you can browse it online now!
Join us on the afternoons of Sunday 5 and Sunday 12 June at 2pm-5pm to learn how to make a beautiful willow lantern.
Materials included in £5 ticket. We will be making simple stars, globes and cone lanterns… but if you feel like being more adventurous we will be on hand to help you make your creation.
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