For more information visit Google's privacy and terms. Your cookie preferences were saved. Ten days of community celebrations are being staged for everyone to enjoy. A full programme of activities, events and entertainment has been put together for the annual event, which was revived by the local community in to help recreate the 12th Century Michaelmass church services and festivities held in the parish to bring local people together in feasting and celebration. Following a spectacular opening ceremony there will be the traditional mixture of live music, sporting competitions, fairground, fireworks, illuminations, carnival parade and displays including comic book characters brought to life at venues across the community.
Chair of the Houghton Feast Steering Group, Councillor Anne Lawson, joined the winner of this year's winner of 'The Voice of Houghton-le-Spring' local girl Ann Marie Gray, 17, with some of the costumed comic book characters, entertainers and community groups appearing during this year's event to prepare for Houghton Feast - The Greatest Show. Also Chair of the Coalfield Area Committee which has helped develop what has become one of the largest community celebration events in the region, Cllr Lawson said: "We are all proud to support the Houghton Feast, a fantastic annual event celebrating all that is good about our community and the people living here.
Cllr Lawson added: "The growth in the popularity and size of the event over the last 51 years, is all down to the continuing support of local people and the hard work of the community groups and volunteers who work so hard to organise it. That way we can help to keep our historic festival going for future generations to come!
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This may or may not identify a specific computer. The date and time you visit our website, and the pages you look at. Find our more about this amazing man in his own section of the Heritage Society's site on the link below. Mr John Mawston also goes by the name of Mr Houghton Feast for his longstanding association with the festival. It features a sabre boar not an ox.
The outdoor Community Hymn Singing started in when Rector Gwilliam led the choir venture outside to sing after evensong on Feast Sunday. The buses had difficulty in getting through the crowds! The last time such an alignment occurred was in October !
The great showman Billy Purvis visited the Feast with his booth between and He made a welcome 'reappearance' in and has been back every year since. Read his fascinating story here. One of the main features of the Festival since the revival, the Parade attracts thousands into the town centre each year. A look at the varied front covers of the Houghton Feast brochures from to modern times, showing how they have changed - plus details of when the Feast was held that year and which Mayor carved the roast ox.
We have over 3, members and the group is very popular with residents, descendants and ex-pats.
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