Sea Sheppey Festival 2006

[McBarnacle]

Hi all,

Yet another event to let you all know about. After the success of last year's Sea Sheppey event to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, the event is to return this year.

It will take place on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th September in Bluetown, Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, UK.

The theme this year is "Working The Docks" and aims to celebrate the the naval heritage of Sheerness Docks which was a Royal Navy Dockyard from the time of Henry VIII until just after the 2nd World War.

There will be several events taking place throughout the weekend including street entertainment, live music, parades, a street market and stalls and a living history encampment with several battles being staged throughout the weekend.

There's no specific website for the event but the Sheppey Pirates - http://www.sheppeypirates.org - will be organising the living history camp and battles and we've invited all our brother pirate crews from the UK to take part in the event.

[McBarnacle]

We've had a little more info from the event organisers regarding this event.

The theme is based round "working the docks" and aims to foster research into the Royal Navy Dockyard in Sheerness, Kent, UK and the people that worked there.

We've been given quite a wide timeframe to work with - 1666-1960 - and that will allow us to focus in the reenactment section on the time around the Golden Age of Pyracy.

I'll update the site with more details regularly of the event.