| Georgian Festival Saturday |
 
All Day Events:
Street Fayre and Craft Market
Location: Broad Street, High Street and Ironmonger Street
 Time: 10am -4.30pm
Horse Drawn Carriage Rides
Location: Boarding at St George's Square
Time: Every 15 minutes from 10am to 4pm
Tickets: £2.50 per person. Limited places.
Tickets required in advance from the Arts Centre
‘Grand Tour of Stamford’ - Treasure Hunt
Family fun with historical clues
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Book Fair
Location: Stamford Arts Centre
Tickets: Entry £1
Street entertainers
Stilt walkers • Mime Artist • Juggler • Punch and Judy Show • Flea Circus • Living Statue • Silhouette Cutter • Face Painting • Morris Dancers • Exotic animals •Coldstream Guards Military Re-enactment • Character Performers • Fairground Rides
Plus:
Stamford Bull Run
Costume street performance
Location: Starting at Stamford Arts Centre
Time: 3.30pm
Town Hall Tours
Behind the scenes historic curios.
 Location: Stamford Town Hall
Time: Hourly from 10am-3pm
Tickets: FREE JUST GO STRAIGHT TO THE TOWN HALL ON THE HOUR (NO TICKETS NEEDED)
Children’s Workshops
Make fans, masks and try silhouette cutting!
Location: Venue to be confirmed
Time: 10am - 4.30 pm
Tickets: FREE
Story Telling and Face Painting
Location: Stamford Library
Time: 10.30am-4.30pm
Tickets: FREE
A Comedy of Folly! Shoestring Theatre Company
Regency prose and poetry on love, life, marriage, smoking and even toothache!
Location: Browne's Hospital Grounds
Time: 10.30am, 2.30pm and 4pm
Tickets: FREE but tickets must be booked
Venue not suitable for wheelchairs, access via stairs.
Tours of Historic Stamford
With Blue Badge guide and Stamford expert Jill Collinge.
Location: Starts at Stamford Arts Centre
Time: 11am and 2.30pm
Tickets: £4
‘Garden Evolution At An English Estate’
A trip through time via garden design with Ray Biggs,Grimsthorpe and Drummond Castle Trust.
Location: Old Courtroom, Town Hall
Time: 11.30am
Tickets: £2.50
All Saints Brewery Tour
Location: Melbourne Brothers Brewery
Time: 12 noon and 3.30pm.
Tickets: £6.50 available from the brewery
Venue not suitable for wheelchairs, access via stairs.
‘The Origins of Pemberley’
A light-hearted detective story. Chris Sandrawich, Treasurer of the Jane Austen Society.
Location: Burghley House
Time: 11am
Tickets: £2.50
‘Life in Georgian England‘
Learn about Mike Rendell’s Georgian ancestor through diaries, inventories and even shopping lists! A man who married a fortune but then fell out with his children.
Location: Burghley House
Time: 1pm
Tickets: £2.50
‘Imitation; The Highest Form of Flattery - Sheffield Plate’
Ray Biggs. See collectors’ pieces and bring your own for discussion.
Location: Old Courtroom, Town Hall
Time: 2pm
Tickets: £2.50
Horrible Histories
Specially written ‘Gorgeous Georgians’ stage show for Stamford
Location: Stamford Corn Exchange Theatre
Time: 3pm
Tickets: £14 (£12 concessions) £45 family of four
Innovations and Acquisitions of Brownlow, 9th Earl of Exeter
With Burghley Curator, Jon Culverhouse
Location: Burghley House
Time: 3pm
Tickets: £2.50
Organ recital with Fergus Black
Location: Burghley House Chapel
Time: 4.30pm
Tickets: £2.50
A Romp Through the Regency - Patriotic Pronouncements
Cheer, boo, and hiss on Georgian trials and tribulations.
Location: Browne’s Hospital Grounds
Time: 11.30am, 1pm & 3.15pm
Tickets: FREE but must be booked
Venue not suitable for wheelchairs, access via stairs.
Floral Georgian
Talk and demonstration. Marilyn Williams.
Location: Old courtroom, Town Hall
Time: 3.30pm
Tickets: £2.50
Silhouette Cutting
A demonstration of fine art Steve Abbott.
Location: Browne’s Hospital Hall
Time: 7pm
Tickets: £2.50
Venue not suitable for wheelchairs, access via stairs.
Pride and Prejudice
Two Bit Classics and Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds.
Laughter amidst one of the most romantic stories ever.
Location: Arts Centre Theatre
Time: 7.30pm
Tickets: £12 (£10 concessions) £8.50 students & school groups
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