All manner of pirate stalls selling plunder and booty were set up in Sandpit Field, alongside living history stalls which demonstrated many aspects of pirates’ lives, from cooking over open fires to writing on parchment with a quill and ink.
Entertainment includes sword fighting, a display of firing cannons and teaching the children how to become a pirate or a redcoat.
All pirates and militia at the festival hold a shotgun licence – which also covers cannons – and are professionally trained to use firearms, many of them by the Sealed Knot society.
