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PORTLAND SPRING FAIR
Portland Spring Fair
- held annually in October by the Portland Development Association.
Enquiries - The Secretary, Portland Spring Fair, PO Box 40, Portland NSW 2847
A Great - Good Fun - Family Entertainment Day..
"THE SPRING FAIR WILL BE BACK IN 2012"
BETTER AND BIGGER THAN EVER...
- Professional clowns
- Magic shows with white doves
- Old fashioned games hosted by Stretch the Clown
There will be...
- Face painting
- Sculptured balloon animals
- Show Bags - many types for girls and boys of all ages
SATURDAY 20TH OCTOBER, 2012
10am – 4pm - Portland Showground
'Yester Year'
Visit our beautiful Yester Year signs all around town (as featured in the Australian Geographical Magazine). View the tributes to our old buildings and their unique history throughout the town’s many individual exhibitions on the day. Did you Know?...click here
Children’s Art Show Competition -
Photographic Competition - for Adults and Juniors***
COMPETITIONS:
Great 'Decorated' Pram Race
Running around the Streets of Portland! Dressed up and pushing a pram!
Much, much more to keep you ENTERTAINED:
- Food galore
- Live music
- Stalls
- Display by the local fire brigade
- Animal Farm
Should you choose to stay for the weekend
- we have affordable pub accommodation at - The Imperial Hotel and The Coronation Hotel.
The House on the Hill, on Wolgan Street, offers beautiful B&B accommodation.
Portland's Clubs - The Portland RSL Sports Recreation Club, the Portland Bowling Recreation Club and the Portland Golf Club all offer gaming and licensed refreshments.
More surprises are to be added to the day, so keep up to date by visiting this website.
- Vintages cars
- Jumping castle
- Chocolate wheel spins
- Wine Tasting by local vintners
...with plenty of prizes for everyone.
Be a part of Portland’s Family Heritage
We invite you to be a part of Portland’s Family Heritage and forever be remembered with your name engraved on a brick that will be used to build the replication of the Bandstand in Saville Park. Come back every year and visit your brick. You will be most welcome!
You may be visiting us for the first time, or you are returning to visit friends and family. Perhaps you are one of our first families that settled in these parts. Or, maybe you are just going to fall in love with our town! For whatever the reason, we now have a special opportunity that allows you to be part of our current history that is commemorating our past. The replication of the once famous “Bandstand/Rotunda”- this structure was widely used by the Cement Works and their families for outdoor activities and for live music.
Our 'Yester Year' - Did you Know?
- Portland is noted for its’ national and state heritage and geological value
- In 1863 Thomas Murray established the first site of the cement works and by 1894 Portland was gazetted as a village
- The Old Cement Works (with various name changes and lastly known as Blue Circle Southern Cements Works) was famous from as early as 1901 until 1991 for producing rare white cement and some 18 million tons of cement was quarried
- We are known as “the town that built Sydney” and our special cement was also used in the new Parliament House in Canberra
- No 20 Williwa Street, in the row of old Cement Work Houses is said to be haunted
- There were originally four Bottle Kilns built around 1888. Two are still standing on the original site which today is closed parkland around a dam that is home to local wildlife. Raffins’ Mill can be seen housed in the old stone building also on the site
- To this day Portland still has a Town Common covering some 650 acres and can be entered via Ridge Road, Portland
The Clowns will be back in 2012!
so.....
Join Us
and enjoy a....
Old Fashioned Country Fair
Dress up as a clown and enter the Portland Clown Competition
- Whether your style is: Hobo, Circus Traditional or New Vogue Clown .
Fabulous prizes for the Best Adult, Teen and Children’s Clown.
Be inducted into the Hall of Fame for Clowns, next to Rusty our current clown!
Portland had two town clowns and you will find information on them at the park.
Accommodation choices in Portland and nearby areas - Cullen Bullen & Wallerawang.
You get to have drink at every pit stop and we even give you a prize at the end!
Bring along your decorated pram!
Be part of a really fun family day - FREE Entertainment All Day
STALL HOLDERS: Enquire now about stalls by contacting -
The Secretary, Portland Spring Fair, PO Box 40, Portland NSW 2847
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