Norbury Virtual Festival

Norbury Junction today is quiet and peaceful when it was planned to be busy and noisy with the annual Norbury Canal Festival
You can’t be here, we can’t welcome you in person so we have called on our time machine to take you back to 2019, to remind you of what you are missing.
Yesterday we looked at the hub of activities around the Junction of the Shropshire Union and the former Shrewsbury and Newport Canal, but the Festival has grown over the years and now it stretches both south and north along the canal.
There are many disappointed boat traders who are missing the Festival even more than the thousands who visit every year.
The three day festival is a fixture in their diaries and places on the towpath are booked months in advance by the boats selling everything from pizzas made in a wood-fired oven on a boat to examples of the blacksmith’s art.
As families stroll the towpath their eyes are drawn to flowers made from wood shavings …
and there is lots of boat-made jewellery …
or colourful, wonderfully extravagant, hats
perhaps that beautiful glassware, painted by hand by the person selling it to you.
Children are entranced by the Pirate Boat and the colourful characters manning it
while adults may be captured by the styles of the 60s on the Hippy Boat
and all ages can’t resist the fudge boat and the always smiling Heather and Paul.