A Festival, Queen and a Riot: A history of the Hastings Blossom Festivals
Posted on 13 September 2010
Landmarks Local History talk - Tuesday 14 Sept, 5.30pm
Blossom Queens, bands, marching girls, a "riot". The Hastings Blossom Festival, which in recent years has been revived, was a major event in the life of Hastings from the time the first one occurred in 1950.
At its peak, 50,000 people lined the streets to watch the decorated floats in the annual procession, and special excursion trains were arranged to bring people from the Gisborne and Wellington regions. The last of original Blossom Festival was in 1972.
Upstairs at Hastings Library
Tuesday 14 September
from 5.30pm until 6.30pm
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