Dickensian Christmas Festival schedule

Events on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 December at the Dickensian Christmas Festival:

Event Location Time
Reindeer Kingshead Car Park 11am - 4.30pm
Letters to Santa Kingshead Car Park 11am - 5pm
Three Towns Blue Boar Lane Stage 10am
Pytchwood (Saturday only) Star Hill Stage 10am
Morrigan (Sunday only) Star Hill Stage 10am
Kelter (Saturday only) Star Hill Stage 10.30am
Camine (Sunday only) Star Hill Stage 10.30am
Skinners Rats City Wall Stage 10.30am
Big Sing Blue Boar Lane Stage 10.45am
Six Poor Travellers' Procession led by the Lamplighter From outside The Victoria and Bull Hotel 11am
Hornchurch Drum and Trumpet Corps Outside the Crown 11am
City of Rochester Pipe Band Star Hill Area 11am
Dance Alley Boley Hill Stage 11am
Kent Costume Trust Reading from "Pantomime and
its costume" read by Susan Ilott (Saturday only)
Rochester Adult Library 11am
Kent Costume Trust Reading from "A Kentish Christmas in Victorian Times" read by Judith Dore (Sunday only) Rochester Adult Library 11am
The Lamplighter La Providence 11.20pm
Punch and Judy Guildhall Forecourt 11.30pm
Big Sing Blue Boar Lane Stage 11.30am
Kelter (Saturday only) Star Hill Stage 11.30am
Camine (Sunday only) Star Hill Stage 11.30am
Main Parade From Almon Place 12pm
Come and have your photo taken with the Pickwick Club Guildhall Forecourt 1pm
Corum Handbell Ringers St Mary's Meadow (War Memorial) 1pm
Rochester Choral Society Blue Boar Lane Stage 1pm
Skinners Rats City Wall Stage 1pm
Pytchwood (Sat Only) Star Hill Stage 1pm
Morrigan (Sun Only) Star Hill Stage 1pm
Rochester and Chatham Dickens Fellowship Reading "The Ghost of Christmas Past" from "A Christmas Carol" Rochester Adult Library 1.15pm
Have your photo taken with Fagin Guildhall Forecourt 1.30pm
Dance Alley Outside the Crown 1.30pm
Fabulous Fezheads (Saturday only) Star Hill Stage 1.30pm
Camine (Sunday only) Star Hill Stage 1.30pm
BAE Systems Brass Band Boley Hill Stage 1.30pm
Kent Stage Academy (Saturday only) La Providence 1.30pm
Rock Choir (Sunday only) Blue Boar Lane Stage 1.45pm
Kent Costume Trust Reading from "Pantomime and
its costume" read by Susan Ilott (Saturday only)
Rochester Adult Library 2pm
Kent Costume Trust Reading from "A Kentish Christmas in Victorian Times" read by Judith Dore (Sunday only) Rochester Adult Library 2pm
Three Towns (Saturday only) Blue Boar Lane Stage 2pm
Corum Handbell Ringers St Mary's Meadow (War Memorial) 2pm
Pytchwood (Sunday only) Star Hill Stage 2pm
The Lamplighter La Providence 2.15pm
Skinners Rats City Wall Stage 2.15pm
Kelter (Saturday only) Star Hill Stage 2.15pm
Walking Tour of Historic Rochester begins Visitor Information Centre 2.15pm
City of Rochester Pipe Band Outside the Crown 2.20pm
Meet and greet Miss Havisham's Ladies St Mary's Meadow (War Memorial) 2.30pm
Punch and Judy Guildhall Forecourt 2.30pm
Hornchurch Drum and Trumpet Corps Boley Hill Area 2.30pm
Morrigan (Sunday only) Star Hill Stage 2.30pm
Corum Handbell Ringers St Mary's Meadow (War Memorial) 3pm
Pytchwood (Saturday only) Star Hill Stage 3pm
Camine (Sunday only) Star Hill Stage 3pm
Rochester Choral Society (Saturday only) Blue Boar Lane Stage 3pm
River Voice Choir (Sunday only) Blue Boar Lane Stage 3pm
BAE Systems Brass Band Boley Hill Stage 3.15pm
Hornchurch Drum and Trumpet Corps Outside the Crown 3.30pm
Skinners Rats City Wall Stage 3.30pm
Kelter (Saturday only) Star Hill Stage 3.30pm
Morrigan (Sunday only) Star Hill Stage 3.30pm
Kent Stage Academy (Saturday only) Crow Lane 3.30pm
Come and have you photo taken with Fagin Guildhall Forecourt 3.30pm
Rochester and Chatham Dickens Fellowship Reading "The Ghost of Christmas Past" from "A Christmas Carol" Rochester Adult Library 3.30pm
Meet and Greet Miss Havisham's Ladies St Mary's Meadow (War Memorial) 3.30pm
City of Rochester Pipe Band Blue Boar Area 3.45pm
The Lamplighter La Providence 3.45pm
Punch and Judy Guildhall Forecourt 4pm
Dance Alley Outside the Crown 4pm
Pytchwood Star Hill Stage 4pm
Candlelit Parade From Almon Place 4.45pm
Carol Concert with BAE Systems Brass Band Boley Hill Stage 5pm