This weekend I have been fortunate to spend some time in Southampton with some lovely people! Ok, I can hear you asking what on earth this has to do with Loughborough ...
Connections with Loughborough include my eldest who lives there: he used to play bowls for the Brush up at Nanpantan, but now plays for the Old Bowling Green in Southampton. The connection this weekend was the light show that was taking place in West Quay, which reminded me so much of the light show that we had on the Carillon about three years ago.
Putting aside the argument about whether or not directing a light show onto the Carillon - a war memorial paid for by public subscription and built in 1923 - was appropriate or not, the event in Loughborough, which was the precursor to the Loogabarooga Festival, a now annual event celebrating children's literature and book illustration, projected images from children's books onto the building. The event in Southampton was similar, with characters from literature and legend, like St George and the dragon, the pied piper of Hamlyn, projected onto the town walls, but on a much grander scale!
There were a number of other light shows around West Quay like lit cubes and balls, a light maze, a musical instrument - an illumaphonium - and colour-changing water geysers. The latter looked great fun - children dressed head-to-toe in waterproofs and wellingtons were getting soaked as they played with the jets of water, whilst parents and grandparents watched with amazement!
Here's some photos, firstly two Loughborough bowls clubs, followed by some photos from the Loughborough event, and then some from the Southampton light show, and a surprise finale!
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| Bowling at Queen's Park |
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| The Brush bowls green |
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| Light show on the Carillon |
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| Light show on the Carillon |
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| Light show on the Carillon |
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| Light show on the Carillon |
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| Light show on the Carillon |
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| Light show on Southampton walls |
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| Light show on Southampton walls |
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| Light show on Southampton walls |
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| Light show on Southampton walls |
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| Light show on Southampton walls |
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| Light show on Southampton walls |
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| Light show on Southampton walls |
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| Light show on Southampton walls |
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| Light show on Southampton walls |
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| The illumaphonium |
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| The Guildhall Southampton |
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| Did I say we saw a folded up spitfire outside the Guildhall? |
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| Close-up of the spitfire |
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| Modern art in the new John Hansard Gallery Southampton |
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| A Ford transformer! |
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