Elmfield Road 2009 Street Party

Hi Folks,
We’re hoping to hold the street party this year on

SATURDAY 18th JULY,

3pm to 11.30pm!

Music, food, drink, good company, competitions … what more can you ask for Please come along to the next planning meeting to find out more:- 8.30pm Monday May 4th, Coppermill Pub.

Street Party 2009 – possible dates to avoid?

If we’re having a street party this year, we could try to make sure it doesn’t clash with other events people might want to go to. These are some events already planned this year:

07.06.2009  Camden Green Fair 2009  Regents Park  Camden
20.06.2009  Tottenham Carnival  Bruce Castle Park  Tottenham
20.06.2009 Paradise Gardens Festival  Victoria Park  Tower Hamlets
04.07.2009  Pride London 2009  Various, Central London  -
04.07.2009 Leytonstone Festival  Various – Leytonstone
12.07.2009 Rise Festival Finsbury Park
12.07.2009 Walthamstow Festival (council-organised, clashing with Rise as usual. Rise is the one chance Londoners have to get together and make a positive statement about embracing all the cultures in our town and rejecting racism)
2009 Shoreditch Festival  Shoreditch, various venues
18.07.09 Lovebox Victoria Park
18.07.2009  Leytonstone Festival  Various – Leytonstone -
22.07.2009  Shoreditch Festival  Shoreditch, various venues
02.08.2009  Carnival del Pueblo  Burgess Park  Southwark
02.08.2009  East London Mela 2009  Barking Park  Barking and Dagenham
12.09.2009 The Mayors Thames Festival  South Bank  Southwark
13.09.2009  The Spitalfields Show and Green Fair 2009  Allen Gardens and Spitalfields City Farm  Tower Hamlets

Also, there is the Brick Lane Festival and the Walthamstow Mela. –  anyone know the dates of these?

2009 Street Party.

Hi Folks. Do we want a street party during the summer of 2009? Should we start organising it now?

Elmfield Road Snow Photos – Feb 2nd 2009

Share your photos with the street!

Time to start thinking about the 2009 party.

Hi all and happy new year.

The raffle for the 2008 street party raised loads of money to help pay for the event with £190.00 left over for 2009.

One lesson we learned last year is that you can’t start planning a street party early enough. What do people think about starting to meet up to plan this years party in early February?

Street Party Photos.

Elmfield Road knows how to party! Here’s to the next one PS Don’t forget to upload your photos.

Street Party August 31 2008.

The road will be closed to through traffic. Please move cars to the ends, or off, the street so kids can play safely. If you have a bit of time free in the morning please spend a  bit of time in the morning clearing the grass of dog poo or rubbish so it’s safe for kids.

Kids and adults all invited to paint the street party banner from the early afternoon. There will be (water-based) paint and brushes for people to use – bring some more if you have any.

We’ll have the tables set out in the early afternoon so you can bring out food or if you just want to come and eat. Don’t feel you can’t join in if you didn’t manage to cook some food. The barbecues will  probably get going around 4.30pm (feel free if you can volunteer some time to help bbq on the day). There’ll be soft drinks, juices — and some rum punch for the adults.

Kids – there’ll be fancy dress competitions – get working on your outfits.

Loads of other games for kids and adults throughout the day – look out for the events line-up.

Dancing in the street is strongly encouraged.

No fireworks but we can set off the sky lanterns when it gets dark.

Raffle tickets will be on sale all day. £1 each or 5 for £4. Prizes include Champagne, Cinema Tickets, Chocolates, Cognac, Port, posh teas etc.

Residents, their family and their friends are all invited!

Street Party 1935.

Lesley dropped off some photos thought to have been taken around May 6th 1935 during a street party for George V’s Silver Jubilee. Elsie’s grandmother is looking out of the upstairs window of number 31. 

(If you know someone without internet access who’d like to see this, ask David for a DVD copy).

Street party minutes 14th August 2008.

Elmfield Road Street Party.
August 31st 2008 3pm – 10pm.

Notes from planning meeting held 14th August.

Road Closure / First Aid.
The council has informed the emergency services of the road closure and have sent paperwork for David to complete. Cliff agreed to organise the road closure signs.

The road will be closed to through traffic for the duration of the event. It’d help if people could move their cars from the centre of the street on the day. Please don’t ‘double park’, as we have to provide access for emergency services.

There will be (at least) two qualified nurses available on the day. We couldn’t convince the guys to wear uniforms. If you can’t find first aid help, ask at the sound system or barbecues.

Funding.
A big ‘Thank You’ to Margaret for her donation to cover the cost of Public Liability Insurance.

Several residents have already used their own money to cover the costs of setting up the event.  There will be a raffle and collection on the day to help reimburse reasonable costs incurred by residents.

If you buy something to be used for the party (apart from food or alcohol), keep the receipt and hopefully you’ll be reimbursed if there’s enough money collected.

Events.
There will be children’s games, including face painting, table tennis, (safe!) football, 3 legged race, egg and spoon race and more!

For adults, a lucky dip might be organised if enough items are donated. There will also be a raffle.

We should be able to put together a half-decent sound system for music and for announcements. Anyone can provide mix CDs on the day, but make sure we can all dance to them and they won’t cause offence.
Ideas for putting together a mix CD of musicians with local connections were explored, but after attempting to mix up poison girls, crass and adrian sherwood/OnUSound with ian dury, patrick fitzgerald, lethal bizzle, rubella ballet and the bonzo dog doo dah band – amongst others –  well, maybe people who are interested should just ask for a copy of the CD instead.
Ideas for the community-painted banner for the party are taking shape. Hopefully, kids and adults will all be able to take part in painting this banner earlier in the day so when it’s finished it will be hung from the railings for the day.

We’ll all set off Khoom Fay Lanterns at the end of the event. These are safer than fireworks (but still need to be handled by responsible / sober adults) and shouldn’t upset pets or marsh animals. If we’re lucky we might even cause a London-wide UFO alert as they all hover over Walthamstow.

We’re still hoping to have a small photo exhibition (basically, a bit of hardboard pinned to the fence with pictures stuck to it). If people can dig out any old photos of the street or surrounding area David (at number 39) can arrange for them to be copied and enlarged. Also, people who’ve taken interesting new photos of the local area could provide copies of their favourites, so people without access to flickr can admire them.

Food and Shelter.
Linda and Theresa hope to be able to provide two barrel barbecues for the day. Everyone is invited to contribute food to be cooked on these. One will be used for meat and fish, the other for vegetarian food.

A third barbecue will also be set up if necessary, for people who need to be sure they only eat animals that are allowed/permissible according to religion and that have been reared and killed in a way that is allowed/permissible.

We’re still hoping people will cook up a huge bowl of food and bring it out for everyone to eat on the day

We’ll provide paper plates and plastic cutlery, as well as bin bags people can use to dispose of and recycle their rubbish on the day.

There’s a rumour some people might be putting together a potentially lethal punch…

Some kind of shelter will be built and people are agreeing to lend gazebos on the day.
So, come rain or shine we are all going to have a party!
Final Planning Meeting Tuesday 27th August at 7.30pm in the beer garden of the Coppermill Pub. Please come!

News!

Street Party will be held on

31st August between 3pm and 10pm.

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• Next Planning Meeting •

THURSDAY 14 AUGUST 7.30PM

AT THE COPPERMILL.

ALL RESIDENTS WELCOME!!

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