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The Rag Taghillian replied on: 7/14/2005 1:20:18 PM Market Place Gaiety On Saturday the festivities themselves started creeping over that allotted opening date of July 3rd. The first event was devoted to showing how to ensure the good health necessary to keep the calls on the hospitals down to a minimum. It was the travelling cinema demonstration which the Health and Cleanliness Council so generously send to Heanor each year. In the Town Hall the first performance of "Snow White and the seven Dwarves", Mr and Mrs G.Pynegar's magnificent contribution to carnival was taking place-more of that anon. Later in the evening crowds gathered around a platform erected in the centre of the Market Place. Gay fairy lights were switched on forming a dainty glowing background.Above them floodlights illuminated the merry scene and searchlights played from the roof of the Cosy Cinema,again placed very thoughtfully by the cinema management. The Ilson Middies Carnival Band occupied the platform and began to play a selection of dance tunes that soon had the feet of the large crowd moving to the rhythmn.Hundreds of people took part including many of the old folkwho occupied the outer ring and reproduced some of their former dancing skill for the insruction of the younger people. So dense was the throng that people on the top deck of passing trolley buses declared that it would have been possible to dance upon people's heads! more soon....

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