Rochester Branch at the Hoo Festival

 

A report from the branch:

The first day of the Hoo Peninsular Heritage Festival is over and an eventful day it was. Branch members were there with a display stand promoting the branch and Gad's Hill Tours. The festival was bigger than expected with a true country fair atmosphere. Our stand was next to a superb hand made cake stall and next-door but one to an artisan coffee/tea vender, what more could we ask for.
There were a few technical issues giving a talk to members of the public due to a brass band performing, another warming up and competing voices from adjacent stalls.
A highlight was meeting Jools Holland, pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter. He was there on behalf of his Majesty’s lord-lieutenant in Kent, as a Deputy lord-lieutenant, to open the Hoo Peninsula Heritage Festival and Aveling 200 event.
Member Christine Buckland asked Jools if he would visit our stand for a photo. He seemed genuinely interested in the displays on the stand and asked for our branch flyer on the Dickens Fellowship. Surprisingly, he asked his driver to take a photo of us on his phone. Mystery solved, the photo of us is on Jools Holland's Facebook page!