Desford Scarecrow Festival 2022 - The Reigning Years

The annual Desford Scarecrow Festival returned over the August Bank Holiday with a theme of "The Reigning Years" a celebration of events that have occured during HRH Queen Elizabeth II`s reign. The theme "The Reigning Years" offered the creative residents and businesses of Desford a wide variety of options upon which to base their creations, many chose the Royals as a theme with a number of interpretations of the Queens famous parachute entry into the 2012 Olympics alongside Daniel Craig's James Bond. There where some fun interpretations of her majesty's faithful canine friends too with a highlight being a Corgi street party in Manor Gardens (renamed Royal Gardens for the occasion and detailing the lives of the royal family though the decades. The beatles arrived in a classic green car and we took a trip to the club tropicana. There was a Newsflash when the BBC (which celebrates its 100 year centenary in 2022) inspired one creator who turned their front garden into a vintage News studio complete with camera and announcer sat at a microphone. My film features a selection of the numerous entries around the village and ends with one small step for man but a giant leap for scarecrow kind as an astronaut is seen leaping a hedge !.