Hurrah for the Alexandra Blossom Festival. Every year the colourful pink and white blossom adorn the fruit trees of the district, heralding longer days, warmer times and bounty on the branches.
Every year, too, for 61 occasions, Alexandra has celebrated its blossom festival. Last year, when the 60th was marked, bumper crowds turned out and a celebratory hangover was feared for this year. Not so. Numbers were well down on 2016, but the about 8000 tickets to the festival in the park last Saturday exceeded expectations.
It is to Alexandra’s credit the show has kept on going, for the ride has been bumpy at times.
Its very existence was threatened in 2010 after the festival was declared insolvent after three successive years of loss…
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