Folkestone's Old High Street

Whilst wandering up Folkestone's Old High Street on Saturday, I noticed the below in the Etsy shop.

Sunday 6th October 2024

Waitrose Halloween 2024

The local Hythe supermarket had a small display of Halloween items at the end of an aisle, however they did have more of the wooden wreaths by their front door too.

Monday 30th September 2024

Tesco Halloween 2024

The local Tesco in Folkestone isn't the biggest store and so it's half-aisle wasn't packed with anything too exciting this year, just the basic decorations and a few items of clothing. I'm sure a larger store will have a better selection.

Friday 27th September 2024

Asda puts out its stock

The local Adsa in Folkestone had it's Halloween fare out for sale when I popped in yesterday evening. The usual kinds of decorations and costumes were on the main aisle. It was interesting to see the Nb4C wreath that Sainsbury's had for sale a couple of years agon, now for sale in Asda. The Jack Skellington plate was a nice item and priced at a reasonable £8. There were a few Beetlejuice items but not much left and the glasses were probaly the best of what was left.

Also at the ends of the aisles were crockery and homewares, such as a mat, candles, candle holders, wreaths, wicker storage baskets and jugs. The crockery that was produced last year in ornage is also available in other colours too this year.

And at the end of clothing aisles were t-shirts and sleepware, a couple of examples are shown here. It was good to see a Snoopy (womens) t-shirt (shown below), and there is a Chucky t-shirt this year

Thursday 26th September 2024

Sainsburys puts stock out

The bigger of the two local Sainsburys had their Halloween stock out when I visited it yesterday. Usual fare. Some wooden decorations and garlands. Mugs and plates but in more muted colours this year. It was good to see a continuation of Nightmare Before Christmas items - a few were ceramic, but the baubles looked quite plastic. There were also a few items based on the Wednesday TV series and the new Beetlejuice Beetlejuice film - so lets hope there might be a few more different choices going forward in future years.

Tuesday 24th September 2024 

Morrisons leads the way

The local Morrisons store in Folkestone is the first of the local supermarkets to get their Halloween decorations on display. Ususal fare, nothing unusual for collectors though.

Friday 13th September 2024

More Stock at TK Maxx

On another visit today into Folkestone, noticed that more decorations are out. 

Saturday 31st August 2024

2nd Visit to The Range

Went back into The Range the other week and took a couple more photos of items not really shown below... a wreath, Autumn wooden plaque, and a couple of displays of arts and crafts materials.

Monday 27th August 2024

Day Of Syn 2024

2024 was the 60th anniversary of Dymchurch's Day of Syn Festival held over the August Bank Holiday and there were a few changes this this, the key one being the change of day of the fate on the village green from the Monday to the Saturday with the procession to the field and various activities on the field.

I think all those organising must have been crossing fingers for good weather since the 50th anniversary was rained off... and this time the rain chucked it down.

Apparently the fireworks were successful on the Friday evening, but come Saturday morning the heavens just opened. The Village Hall did have some art on show and thankfully this year there were some excellent souvenirs. As well as the badges, postcard, souvenir brochure and poster, there were tshirts with an excellent design. The guy selling themed Lego models was back there also selling his book and some art.

The Morris Dancers performed in the rain and then at 11am, the high street was temporarily closed for the procession of characters, dancers and drummers to lead the way to the field for the fete. Despite the rain hundreds still turned out and the fete had it's usual number of stalls raising money for charity, but by midday when the heavens really opened some stallholdres were already dismantling and giving up and crowds were looking for somewhere drier, like a pub!

We came back to Folkestone after having had lunch at The Ocean, to dry off; but did venture back down to Dymchurch in the evening to see the poet Northern Nick perform in The Hidden Treasure, micro pub. And we ended a very enjoyable day in the very crowded British Legion watching a live band, and drinking cheap beer.

Further events on Sunday and Monday were thankfully not marred by the bad weather although we were off elsewhere.

Monday 26th August 2024