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I didn't take many photos at the kite festival this year - it's more or less the same very time! But I had to take a couple on my phone! These 'flags' really caught my eye!
Festival Place is a shopping centre in Basingstoke, Hampshire which opened on Tuesday, 22 October 2002. It houses over 200 shops including large stores such as BHS, Debenhams, Marks and Spencer, Apple Store and HMV. There are also restaurants, bars, and cafés, mostly located outside in the covered Festival Square, seen on the right here.
The centre also incorporates a Vue cinema, Wonderland Nightclub, the Sports Centre and Basingstoke Discovery Centre. It is located within Basingstoke town centre, close to Basingstoke railway station, and incorporates the town bus station and a multi-storey car park.
Festival Place is also home to The Breeze, located in the centre management block, The Breeze FM is Basingstoke & North Hampshire's local radio station.
Festival Place is 102,000 m² (1.1 million square feet) in size and is owned by TIAA-CREF. Festival Place was originally owned by the Grosvenor Group which sold Festival Place for £280 million near the shopping centre's 10th birthday. Like most shopping malls, photography is not allowed inside.
The area of Basingstoke which Festival Place now stands on was cleared in the 1960s where a large concrete shopping centre was built. The first phase, which became The Walks and New Market Square was completed at the end of the decade and The Walks was covered in the 1990s. The second phase became The Malls and has since been altered further to include a new roofed area and new modernised areas (2011/2012). The third phase was abandoned and became The Anvil concert hall.
Festival Place was completed in 2002. The development replaced New Market Square and a 1960s multi-storey car park and included covering Porchester Square and extending the centre to the east into a new two-level section, Festival Square and the tower which is illuminated at night. The bus station was redeveloped and an amphitheatre was built beyond Festival Square and a fountain installed in neighbouring Eastrop Park.
The centre was used by BBC's Top Gear (Series 12, Episode 6) by Jeremy Clarkson who was road testing a Ford Fiesta 2008 whilst being chased by "Baddies" in a Chevrolet Corvette.
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Loy Kratong and Y Peng, Chiang Mai's November festival of parades, lights, lanterns and floats coupled with temple visits and making merit. A whole lolad of fun!
Buddhist monk with traditional dress at the inaugural procession of the Ladakh Festival 2013 in Leh, Ladakh, India. The annual festival takes place always in September in Leh.
Website: Dietmar Temps, photography
Not Halloween, although the themes and time-of-year are similar. A fun local festival with good food, music and some thrills for the kids!
Decorations along New Bridge Road and Eu Tong Sen Street for the Chinatown Mid-Autumn 2015 Festival celebrations.
Annual seafood festival in Weymouth. Plenty of people, food and sunshine and a good opportunity for some candid photography!
14.07.2018
There were lots of little stalls and food vans along the road - this was the Strong Island stall.
Here's an explanation about Strong Island from their website:
"Born from a simple conversation between Paul Gonella & Tristan Savage over some drinks on Albert Road, the idea for Strong Island came from our passion about where we live and the fact that we would often miss certain events, gigs, exhibitions etc and had no real source to find out about them in one place…
We launched 8 days later on the 27th September 2008 with some of our own photos and videos alongside scans of flyers we picked up and articles we dug out about the city.
Unfunded and independent we’ve managed to keep the original ethos of quite simply being a resource designed to promote, showcase and inform people about Portsmouth and Southsea’s cultural scene. Be it past, present or future we’ll do our best to keep you up to date with photos, interviews and articles about the city. However, we really couldn’t have made it this far without our readers, contributors & the people who make up this fair city. From foraging for articles to write back in 2008, to being inundated with all manner of related information now."
In recent years Strong Island began to work on cultural events that brought together different aspects of the city’s culture and community in new and exciting ways.
From the amazing colourful and fantastic Southbank Centre I met up with Scarlet and Matthew here LOVE all the crazy signs and colours. Lots to do and open til 31st August!
Impressionen vom Potsdamer Platz. Mit einsetzendem Starkregen und Gewitter mussten wir leider unsere Fototour abbrechen.