The Westbury Bicentenary Festival is in its second day with several popular events celebrating it's rich history and modern life style. Westbury Historical Society head Amanda Taylor talks to our Declan Durant about the weekend so far. Video Rod Thompson
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00:00 The first day was amazing, we had lots of people through, lots of good comments about
00:07 the festival itself and the exhibition in the town hall.
00:12 Well certainly the numbers coming through the town hall, there was so many positive
00:16 comments about the display in there and particularly the work that the students did, the Westbury
00:20 Primary School kids, that was really good.
00:22 Yeah, so we've just got a treasure hunt going around with different questions that
00:26 people can get the answers either from the Village Green or from the exhibition in the
00:29 town hall.
00:30 One of them was to have a look at, or to name one of the silhouettes on the Village Green,
00:34 so Westbury has a silhouette trail with various places around Westbury and there's two of
00:40 them on the Village Green, so yeah, one of the questions was to name one of those silhouettes.
00:44 More about the different people that sort of established Westbury, so for example the
00:49 one outside the Anglican Church just behind us is Eleanora Payne, so she was the famous
00:54 woodcarver who did a lot of the woodcarving that's in the church and RSL.
00:59 Fantastic, and you've had a number of tours going as well, have those been well attended
01:03 and people have been joining us?
01:05 Yeah, absolutely. The first one yesterday had 25 or more people on it, which was, yeah,
01:12 huge attendance and went for a lot longer than we expected because they were all just
01:15 so engaged and asking so many questions and yeah.
01:18 And then today they're unveiling the plant for Doctorate of Science at the Post Office.
01:24 So all the kids from Westbury Primary School doing it, so yeah, they've been practising
01:28 for a long time.
01:29 Yeah, no, it's a great tradition, like the community just loves the Mayfog, like people
01:34 coming up just for that.
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