The Lichfield Spring Food Festival. Picture: Richard Grange
Thousands of visitors turned out to enjoy the Lichfield Spring Food Festival over the weekend.
The sun shone as tasty treats and delicious drinks were served up by a host of traders across the city centre.
Photographer Richard Grange was on hand to capture the event on camera:
The Lichfield Spring Food Festival. Picture: Richard GrangeThe Lichfield Spring Food Festival. Picture: Richard GrangeThe Lichfield Spring Food Festival. Picture: Richard GrangeThe Lichfield Spring Food Festival. Picture: Richard GrangeThe Lichfield Spring Food Festival. Picture: Richard GrangeThe Lichfield Spring Food Festival. Picture: Richard Grange
And where did they all park? The old Debenhams multi-storey was packed on Saturday, in spite of the horrendous prices the Council are now charging for “short-stay” parking. It will be packed again next weekend for the Bower before the Council get their way and start demolishing it. BTW, its extra-wide spaces make it very suitable for “larger modern cars”, as long as they’re under 1.9 metres (three spaces between pillars was reduced to two when it was last refurbished), although my dad had a much bigger car in the 60s and 70s than I have now, so that was always a spurious argument for knocking it down. With entrances and exits both ends it is also far more accessible than many other Lichfield car parks, and in the best location, being close to the train station, bus and coach station, theatre and shops. It will be replaced, not with another car park, but a pile of rubble to match the other end of the Birmingham Road site. Please stop this insane destruction of public assets.
Jayne
1 year ago
Words fail me on short stay carpark going from £2 to £3.50 for Two hrs !
I live in Lichfield and will not pay this for a shop in city centre . Plus, some of the long stay are now short stay !
John Allen
1 year ago
It was noticeable that cars and vans were driving through the shopping precinct, which I thought was ridiculous. We are not supposed to cycle through the precinct (I never do, but I seem to be the only one who doesn’t, but that’s a different problem). Have the stallholders never heard of trolleys and other moving aids?
J. K.
1 year ago
Good grief, people in the comments will moan about anything. This festival and others that Lichfield hold are great – they bring much needed business and help the city grow and develop. People moaned about Debenhams being empty and now that’s being developed people are moaning about that too. And if you don’t want to pay for parking use public transport. There’s plenty of it and it’s better for both the city and the environment.
Mike
1 year ago
J k find public transfers after 5 in the evening
David wood
1 year ago
A quick walk through town ruined by the fumes belting from all the generators along with the noise, rude people dropping litter eating like pigs . I noticed that quite a few vendors were eating from McDonald’s which tells e a lot about what they were selling and to top it off the event management could not careless about the local residential concern.
Gurt Lewis
1 year ago
Nothing like the smell and sounds of small generators to really get you in the mood for pushing past throngs of people. Luckily the local shops were totally blocked off by the repeating lines of gin, sausages and crepes for sale at the exact same price regardless of which independent vendor you visited. I mean if they were not then some of that money being spent by the drunk slops dropping food everywhere might actually end up being spent in a local shop!
Herbert Hogwash
1 year ago
Those stalls were blocking my route to Greggs, l was seething all weekend.
BOBBY BIGGUMS 1954
1 year ago
I need to start airing all my minor grievances that nobody else cares about on the Lichfield Live comment section. Lets get this echo chamber bouncing baby! In all seriousness, the food festival was great. Nice to see Lichfield busy and rocking.
Paul Linford
1 year ago
Interesting that as the whole area is designated a no public walk about drinking sign every where so many bars and drinkers so rules only apply when it suits?
And where did they all park? The old Debenhams multi-storey was packed on Saturday, in spite of the horrendous prices the Council are now charging for “short-stay” parking. It will be packed again next weekend for the Bower before the Council get their way and start demolishing it. BTW, its extra-wide spaces make it very suitable for “larger modern cars”, as long as they’re under 1.9 metres (three spaces between pillars was reduced to two when it was last refurbished), although my dad had a much bigger car in the 60s and 70s than I have now, so that was always a spurious argument for knocking it down. With entrances and exits both ends it is also far more accessible than many other Lichfield car parks, and in the best location, being close to the train station, bus and coach station, theatre and shops. It will be replaced, not with another car park, but a pile of rubble to match the other end of the Birmingham Road site. Please stop this insane destruction of public assets.
Words fail me on short stay carpark going from £2 to £3.50 for Two hrs !
I live in Lichfield and will not pay this for a shop in city centre . Plus, some of the long stay are now short stay !
It was noticeable that cars and vans were driving through the shopping precinct, which I thought was ridiculous. We are not supposed to cycle through the precinct (I never do, but I seem to be the only one who doesn’t, but that’s a different problem). Have the stallholders never heard of trolleys and other moving aids?
Good grief, people in the comments will moan about anything. This festival and others that Lichfield hold are great – they bring much needed business and help the city grow and develop. People moaned about Debenhams being empty and now that’s being developed people are moaning about that too. And if you don’t want to pay for parking use public transport. There’s plenty of it and it’s better for both the city and the environment.
J k find public transfers after 5 in the evening
A quick walk through town ruined by the fumes belting from all the generators along with the noise, rude people dropping litter eating like pigs . I noticed that quite a few vendors were eating from McDonald’s which tells e a lot about what they were selling and to top it off the event management could not careless about the local residential concern.
Nothing like the smell and sounds of small generators to really get you in the mood for pushing past throngs of people. Luckily the local shops were totally blocked off by the repeating lines of gin, sausages and crepes for sale at the exact same price regardless of which independent vendor you visited. I mean if they were not then some of that money being spent by the drunk slops dropping food everywhere might actually end up being spent in a local shop!
Those stalls were blocking my route to Greggs, l was seething all weekend.
I need to start airing all my minor grievances that nobody else cares about on the Lichfield Live comment section. Lets get this echo chamber bouncing baby! In all seriousness, the food festival was great. Nice to see Lichfield busy and rocking.
Interesting that as the whole area is designated a no public walk about drinking sign every where so many bars and drinkers so rules only apply when it suits?