CHRISTMAS FAIR

The Friends Of Elvaston held their Christmas Fair in the Eagle Centre Market on Saturday, December 2nd. Once again, the event was an outstanding success and proved to be very popular with the general public. One or two people feel so strongly on the issue of Elvaston Castle that they made healthy individual contributions to our funds without actually buying anything! We applaud such generosity and will endeavour to continue to campaign as strongly as ever on the community's behalf.

One young woman visiting the stall volunteered her time to the Friends, citing a reason we have heard on so many occasions, which is also very poignant. When she was growing up, Elvaston Castle was the place her family visited and spent many happy hours together. Quite simply, she now wants the same facilities to be available for her own children. Unfortunately, due to the greed of others, we cannot always take such things for granted anymore, even though tradition has formed  the backbone of life in this country.

Such lovely people and their passion and outrage at the attempted theft of such a wonderful public asset by private, profit seeking developers, is the inspiration for our continuing fight for justice. We will not cease in our efforts - we will redouble them. We will not shrink from the fight - we will continue to spread the word of what is happening at Elvaston; Our website is already looked at on a regular basis by readers throughout the world, East and West. Our support is growing daily. We will not surrender!

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