HORNCASTLE LINCOLNSHIRE WOLDS REGENCY FESTIVAL MAY 24th – 27th 2012

We aim to offer our visitors the spirit of the age of Regency ,the social ambience created by Byron and Jane Austen .An individual flavour of living for the fine art of dancing, music,food,gothic and ambient literature and architecture .The love of the Lincolnshire countryside and of pastimes with good company.

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Full ticket pass to all events (exluding Sunday) – £100

Individual prices below:

Thursday May 24th 7.30

Welcome Reception –The Admiral Rodney Hotel HORNCASTLE 7.30 – Tickets £15
A chance to meet fellow festival goers and discuss the weekends activities over canapes and a glass of wine.The festival will officially be declared open and a music recital will take place of approx 35mins

Friday May 25th

Mrs Collins Costume Conversations 9.45-11.00am – Tickets £5

Mr Youds Historical Journals 11.15-12.15 – Tickets £5

Tea at Lord Tennysons – Tickets £5 for Church funds and £5 picnic

A Walk in the Wolds begins at 2pm and a visit to Tennysons birthplace where the young Alfred fled and hid in the graveyard away from his drugged and drunken Father the rector. proceeds include a donation to Somersby Church.

A magical Regency Soiree from 6.30pm at the “Gothic” Oxcombe Hall – Tickets £20

…with music, garden walks, Lincolnshire Full Supper, Readings from the great literary figures and Card Games in true Regency Style inn recollection of the amounts gambelled by HRH The Prince Regent and Lady Georgaina Spencer Duchess of Bedford and ancestor to the late Diana Princess of Wales. Talk of the wolves that Lord Byron kept at his mansion and the creation of such novels as Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice and Child Harold.

Saturday May 26th

Costume Promenade emulating The Jane Austen Festival in Bath 11am – FREE

A chance to savour the atmosphere of Horncastle on our free costume Parade through the town fulll of individual antique,coffee gift and food shops beginning at Banovallum House once the home of Sir Joseph Banks the world famous botanist and landowner and the comrade of Charles Darwin via the workhouse and dispensary of Dr Harrison the first spinal surgeon who owned a mental assylum in West Street Horncastle and finishing at The Old Stables Coffee house .Horncastle had one of the most famous Horse Fairs in the world with wicked goings on such as wife sales in the many public houses.

Afternoon at leisure before the free Ball Rehearsal at The Admiral Rodney 2.30-4pm- FREE

GRAND COSTUMED BALL 7-7.30 – Tickets £50 - In the presence of HRH Prince Regent George

Caller Mr Rob Sibthorpe of the E.F.D.S and dancing Mistress Miss Herrick by permission of the Lady Patronesses as at The Hampshire Regency Dancers Almacks Ball

Dancing to Mrs Rose’s “Harmonies of Time.” Dances that Mr Darcy and Elzabeth Bennett enjoyed such as Mr Beveridges Maggot and Every Savage Can Dance quadrilles ,reels and contra dances to Traditional folk music tunes and by Purcell and Ellens own new prmiere of her composition The Darcy March ..Tickets to include a full Regency Supper

Carriages at 11.30 prompt

Sunday May 27th

Sunday Farewell

A trip to Belton House the home of the fictional Lady Catherine de Burgh in the adaptation of Miss Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice “