THE Stoke Bruerne Family Festival will be held over this week-end, 18th and 19th June, with lots of activities, as can be expected with anything organised at the village.

There will be working, pleasure and model boats on the water, displays of traditional canal crafts, a bustling market with trade and charity stalls, cream teas, children's activities including face painting, champagne and strawberries, and a real ale bar and beer festival at the Navigation pub.

Full week-end of fun

There will be live music on and off the water, morris dancing, pony rides (Sunday) and we are told much much more. Everything you need for a weekend full of fun for all the family in one of Northamptonshire's prettiest villages on the Grand Union Canal.

Entry is free and parking is only £5 per car (all day) in the village car parks. Remarkable value for a family day out! There really will be something for everyone to do and see.

Demonstrations

Visitors will be able to get a glimpse of what life would have been like on the historic waterway with a display of working narrowboats, demonstrations of breasting up and lock working and a chance to get afloat on one of the two trip boats offering an opportunity to see nearby Blisworth Tunnel from the inside.

Festival goers who want to learn more about our canal heritage will be able to get half price entry into The Canal Museum (open (10am to 5pm) with special 'two for one' entry.

The Family Festival is being organised by the Friends of the Canal Museum in partnership with the Canal Museum and the local community to raise awareness of the Museum and all that the canalside village of Stoke Bruerne has to offer. (Photograph by James Rudd.)