WOLSINGHAM residents got a flavour of France with a weekend of activities to celebrate Bastille Day.
The event was held to raise awareness of the new town-twinning arrangements with Poix de Picardie and help raise funds to keep the association going.
A self-financing support committee was formed just over a year ago and the group has just come back from Poix, where they visited with a party of 24 schoolchildren.
Committee member Vere Shuttleworth said: "What we're doing is trying to get the community of Wolsingham involved, not just by having the activities in the market place, but by emphasising the French theme and the link between the two countries. Rather than just have any old thing we thought it would be nice to do something to celebrate Bastille Day.
Youngsters designed Bastille Day T-shirts, which have been on sale, a local drama group performed a French farce and a series of photographs from the Harperley prisoner-of-war camp have been on display.
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