Wandle Valley Festival 2010

Further events:

Morden Hall Park near the Snuff Mill
12-4pm Industrial Revolutions Family workshops to design and make your own waterwheel using water to generate electricity. Visit the Snuff Mill to find out about the work and people involved.
National Trust 020 8545 6850, email mordenhallpark@nationaltrust.org.uk

11am-4pm Drawing and Watercolours Make your own special scene of the Wandle or colour one of the outlines of scenes from Wandle life.
Artist Yvonne Russell. www.yvonnerussell.co.uk

10am-4pm River & Cloth Block Printing & Eco-dyeing Workshop Learn how to print and dye textiles using techniques practised by Liberty’s and William Morris during the 19th century. River & Cloth celebrates the diverse textile heritage of the Wandle Valley as well as the contributions made by refugee workers.
For further information email arts@merton.gov.uk or visit www.riverandcloth.co.uk

Merton Abbey Mills in the Chapter House
10am-5pm Children’s archaeology digs. Dig up the past in our archaeology boxes.
Find stuff that Romans and other early Londoners left behind, from pots to pipes, bones to stones. Staff from Museum of London Archaeology Service.
Try traditional fabric hand block printing.
Wandle Industrial Museum. Call 020 8648 0127, email curator@wandle.org or visit www.wandle.org

Merton Abbey Mills in the market area
11am-4pm Make it in clay and take it away. Make your own Treasure Island in clay with the help of experienced potters. Free materials provided. All ages and abilities.
Wandle Heritage. Call 020 8647 0076, email Stephenllewellyn@waitrose.com or visit www.stephenllewellynpottery.co.uk

1pm and 3pm The Merton Concert Band plays favourite music

1pm onwards Young’s Brewery Shire Horses - family rides in the dray.

Children’s Puppet Show - Colour House Theatre 2.30pm (tickets £3.50) and 4.00pm (tickets £5.00)

3pm Mayor cuts the giant birthday cake. Clowns entertain the children and give out the c