Tansley Village

Saturday 9th July to Wednesday 13th July 2011

Photos of the three 2011 well-dressings with the theme of favourite children's stories. (click photo to enlarge)

[Photos by Chris Knightley]

Treasure Island - for Tansley Village hall
(by Jean Peters and Bev Oates)

The Gruffalo - for Tansley Primary School
 

The Three Little Pigs - for Cancer Research
 

The Boy And The Wolf

The Fox And The Grapes - by Vicki, Kath, Hilary and Jo for Tansley Pre-school

The Crow And The Pitcher - by Alison for Cystic Fibrosis research

The Lion And The Mouse

The North Wind And The Sun - by Jean, Bev and Val for Tansley Village Hall

The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg - by Kath Cummings

The Traveller And His Dog

The Two Pots - by Dorothy Toplis

The Cat And Cockerel

Flowers at the pulpit

The Fox And The Grapes - by June, Jean and Peter

The Peacock And The Crane - by Tansley Primary School

The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg - by Rita Sayers

The Fir Tree And The Bramble

The North Wind And The Sun

Flowers at the entrance

The Wedding At Cana

Moses And The Burning Bush

Zacchaeus The Tax Collector

Feeding the Five Thousand

Noah's Ark

Saturday 11th to Wednesday 15th July 2009

The theme for the well-dressing designs for 2009 was 'parables'. Five dressings were displayed as shown below.
These raised nearly £200 in donations.

There were also 11 floral displays in Holy Trinity Church, also shown below.

The church raised £906 from all its events and serving tea and cakes etc. over the five well-dressing days. The money is going towards new energy saving church lighting.

Well-dressing events were:

1. Saturday morning 11th July - Blessing of the wells service in Holy Trinity Church.

2. Sunday afternoon 12th July - cream tea and a free band concert by Youlgrave Silver Band outside Tansley Village Hall.

3. Monday evening 13th July - Family Social Evening in Tansley Village Hall with games and prizes, a children's fancy dress competition, a Guess The Tune competition and other games.

Here are Dorothy and Kath petalling their beautiful 'The Lost Sheep' well-dressing for 2009.

After enlarging the design and tracing it onto grease-proof paper, Dorothy and Kath lay the tracing over the clay and prick through the paper with cocktail sticks to carry the design into the clay. They then use black wool to highlight the shapes and to separate the in-filling materials. The sheep's coat in the clay is filled with Herdwick wool collected by Kath in Cumbria. The grass is fern leaves. These are lighter underneath and darker on top, so very versatile in use. The shepherd's skin is egg-shells. The sky is made from blue delphinium or hydrangea petals from a local garden.

Here are the other 4 well-dressings for the Parables theme for 2009.