Flower festival blooms

A flower festival celebrating 50 years of Southwick Methodist Church in Manor Hall Road has been drawing the crowds all week.
By The Newsroom
Published 19th May 2005, 11:12 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 23:45 BST

Southwick Flower Club, Brighton and Hove Flower Club, Preston Flower Club and the church members teamed up to produce floral arrangements, depicting worldwide events over the last five decades, all around the church from Sunday.

The blooms represent Coronation Day and the conquering of Everest in the 1950s, the moon landing and England winning the World Cup in the 1960s, the Queen's silver jubilee and launch of Concorde in the 1970s, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Channel Tunnel building in the 1980s, the release of Nelson Mandela and the Millennium Dome in the 1990s and the London Eye, Olympics and World Rugby Cup in 2000-05, as well as other events and the future.

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Local MP Tim Loughton opened the festival on Sunday. It is open from 9.30am to 9pm today, 9.30am to 7pm tomorrow and 9.30am to 5pm on Saturday.

Local school pupils and residents have been performing musical numbers at the church throughout the week.

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