Brighton: Hanover Day 2004
Hanover Day 2004
Hanover Day is an annual festival held in the Hanover area of Brighton. It's part village festival, part jumble sale and this year it gave some welcome relief from the manic shopping areas full of tourists, and the attitude of flamboyance as an extreme sport which the Pride parade of the previous week always gives.
2004 was slightly lower key than the previous year, partly due to the changeable weather, but it was still well worth a look-in. Below are some pictures of what was going on.
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This picture of the fencing demonstration by the Sussex Rapier Society is just outside where I used to live. If you look in the background there's a man sitting on the upturned remains of my old bath.
The fencing demonstration (my old bath notwithstanding) was again the highlight of the event, and really makes Hanover Day feel like part of a village event rather than happening within a city. I missed the Morris dancers this year, apart from them arriving down the hill, and while I don't usually go for that sort of thing, last year they were very good - close up Morris dancing is much more like a strange martial art which happens to involve wearing bells rather than a dozen blokes in silly costumes waving hankies at each other. I certainly wouldn't want to get in the way of one of the sticks they flail around.
Here's looking forwards to a brighter day for next year's Hanover Day.
Paul Silver, 2004
See Hanovernet for more information about the area.