The Brome and Oakley Village Fête, Brome Hall, Suffolk - 13th July 2024

It's the annual Brome and Oakley summer fête, held once again in the grounds of the former Brome Hall. As last year, Nosher and Fred are vaguely helping out on the bottle stall, whilst Isobel is doing much of the compéring for the first time. There's also a new photography competition, where 12 winning photos out of 50 or so entered are to be used for an up-coming Brome and Oakley Village Life calendar. Nosher actually wins a couple of spots as well as the main cover photo, along with a nice little stash of Cocoa Mama chocolates.

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The K6 phone box on Brome Street

The K6 phone box on Brome Street

Harry has a go on the bottle stall

John wins a bottle of wine

Pippa's running a dog competition

Harry roams around

The dogs are doing a biscuit-catching challenge

Apple's dog catches a biscuit

The winning dog runs away

Sue and Tony's cric-a-brac stall

Tony looks over his stash

Fred's scored a bottle of Coca-Cola

Isobel does some compéring

Pippa lays out sacks for the sack race

The sack race kicks off

Gizmo the dog gets a rosette

There's more action on the bottle stall

Nigel chats to some dog people

Some of the commercial stalls at the fete

Someone's found a toad somewhere

A small toad on a hand

Gizmo really doesn't want to comply

Pippa tries to show Gizmo what to do

There's a big queue for the barbeque

Christopher's won a huge stash of random drinks

Fred and Sophie do the wooden ski walk thing

Sophie and Fred show off their medals

There's a women's team going nowhere

A lads team gets the hang of it

An old couple head off down Brome Hall's drive

Chatting by the village hall's bar

Another sack race occurs

There's a nice open-top Austin parked up

Three birds sit in a dead tree

The Hoxon Hundred do their thing

Morris dancing near the Dutch street organ

Clive chats to the Willy's jeep people

Millie and Fred chat on a bench

There's a few down after a tug of war

The Austin heads off down the drive

Amusing figures on the Dutch organ

There's another round of tug-of-war

Mark Prior and the Brome boys start their round

The Brome team takes the strain

DH wanders up with the tombola