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CLIC: Challenging Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood
Oldbury Fun Run

Sunday 15th, the 21st Oldbury Fun Run in aid of Clic took place in the usual Father's Day sunshine. Click on any of the thumbnails below for a bigger picture.

 Start of the Oldbury Fun Run, click for a bigger picture.
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Miss Till opens the Craft & Local History Exhibition, click for a bigger picture. Oldbury's Family Tree, click for a bigger picture. Local History displays, click for a bigger picture. Local History displays, click for a bigger picture.

Local History
& Craft Exhibition

11 O'clock on Saturday 28th, Miss Till opened the Craft and Local History Exhibition in the Methodist Chapel. During the short opening, we sang a song specially written for the occasion by Rev. William Denning, click here for the words. Lots of different crafts were on display including: painting, needlework, mosaics, book binding, floristry, sculpture, lace making and children's contructions. The local history exhibition included the family trees of various well known family names and plenty of old photographs of yester-year Oldbury were also on show.

Drawing of the Chapel from an old photograph, click for a bigger picture.

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Country Dancers, click for a bigger picture. Oldbury School
Summer Fayre 		Relaxing day at the fayre, click for a bigger picture.

The afternoon of Saturday 28th saw Oldbury School having it's Summer Fayre. The school field was filled with stalls and activities of all kinds: Home produce, Samba band, Golf games, Pony Rides, Tombola, Refreshments Marquee, BBQ, Beer Tent, Children's Country Dancing, Tug-of-war, Guess the Teddy's name, Bouncy Castle, Obstacle Course, Wellie Thowing, Vintage Cars and Tractors, Thornbury Fire Engine, and Help! I'm a Teddy Bear - Get me out of here!
Future firefighters?, click for a bigger picture.  Cooling off the children, click for a bigger picture.  The children teach the adults a tug-of-war lesson!, click for a bigger picture.  Prize giving, click for a bigger picture.
Craft & Local History exhibition makes the local paper, click for a bigger picture.

STOP PRESS!!!

Both the School's Summer Fayre and the Craft & Local History Exibition make the Thornbury Gazette, Friday 4th July. 		Schol Summer Fayre makes the local paper, click for a bigger picture.