Eathorpe Christmas Lights
From about the second week in December until just after New Year’s Day, Eathorpe becomes a veritable Christmas grotto, with just about every house displaying Christmas lights. Every evening, when darkness falls, Eathorpe Main Street becomes a little like Blackpool Promenade, full of families, usualy with young children attached. The fun is all provided freely by Eathorpe residents, although several houses will have charity collection points. We regularly raise over £2000 for selected charities.
For up to the minute news about the Christmas Lights, please look at our dedicated Facebook page.
The Pink Flamingo
With the apparent demise of our local pub, The Plough, Eathorpe residents decided to take matters into their own hands and apply for a licence to run a pop-up pub in the Village Hall. This is now going strong and we intend it to run on at least one evening a week. Look at the Home Page for details ot when the Pink Flamingo will be flying, and we hope to see you there!
Eathorpe Egg Rolling
This event is probably unique to Eathorpe! Every Easter Sunday, villagers (and friends, relations and former villagers) gather on the humpback bridge on the way out of the village. The children enter a decorated egg competition and the judging of this takes place first of all. After the award of prizes, everyone walks to the top of Wappenbury Hill, each carrying a hard boiled egg. We all then proceed to roll these eggs down the hill. Very few survive to the bridge (eggs that is!)
Afterwards everyone gathers at the village hall where there is a chocoloate egg hunt for the children, hot cross buns and tea for the adults and, finally, the raw egg throwing event. The picture gives an indication of the chaos of this event! But a fabulous time is had by all.