Day Six: Thursday 7 August:
Morning:
§ Clear-up on the Butes
- Clay Pigeon Shooting
- Plate-diving competition
- The Great Aurigny Duck Race
- KFA special dance performance
- The Aurigny Manpowered flight Spectacle
The Great Aurigny Duck Race and the Aurigny Man-Powered Flight
Demand for those high speed yellow plastic ducks racing in this year’s Great Aurigny Duck Race was high. £5 for your own individually numbered bath tub favourite and, if yours was first to paddle across the Inner Harbour, you secured 4 return air tickets between Alderney and Southampton. This year, the winning duck was Number 137.
The Dive-for-a-Plate Contest made a welcome return and, while the competition proved a touch daunting for some youngsters.
And the ever popular and revitalised Man-Powered Flight did not disappoint a 1,000-strong audience with highly imaginative entries each one piloted by a copper-bottomed super star in keeping with the Alderney Week theme and vying for big prizes for best designed flying machines and costumes.
Lodging yourself off a ramp 25-ft above the sea in an attempt to defy gravity is not everybody’s cup of soup but, hey, this is Alderney Week. And they were off to a flying start: Wilburtross, the Raging Rabbits, The Flying Wand, Ali Babua, The Hoff’s Flying Machine, Pure Magic, Gene Genies, Alderney Quidditch Team, And for My Next Trick, Flight of Igarus, The Tooth Fairies, Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, Led Zeppelins, Aero, Bed Knobs and Broom Sticks, Red Bull, Aeros, Over the Rainbow, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, Tommy Cooper’s Flying Squirrel, Mad Roo Airlines, IT Girls. What a spectacle!
The pilots and cabin crew were super stars all, but there have to be winners.
Best Overall entry: “Indiana Jones”.
Best Youngster (under 18): Bed Knobs and Broom Sticks
Best Theme: Gene Genies
Best Original: Tommy Cooper
Best Flying Machine – and winner of the £100 prize: Wilburtross
Both events were sponsored by Aurigny Air Services and Malcolm Hart, the company’s MD, was there to present the prizes.
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Afternoon:
- Canine Capers
- Beach Olympics – cancelled due to heavy rain earlier on
- Target Bowls competition
- Putting & Chipping Competition
- Beach Boules
- Screening of “Countdown to Danger” at the Braye Beach Hotel
- Family Dinghy Scramble
Beach Boules – as popular and challenging as ever
Alderney’s Got Talent
Organised for the second year by Wendy Hamon and Pat Swift, this show proved how much talent there’s on this little island and who would have wanted to be in the judges’ shoes as the young pop stars, ballet dancers, musicians and entertainers took to the stage. But, as with so many competitions, there can only ever be one Overall Winner and this year 10-year old Alice Flowers took the title, trophy and prizes. But there were also winners in the different age groups were:
AGE GROUP 4 – 8 YEARS
1st ASHA MILLIKEN
2nd OLLY MANTLE
3rd GAN ROBERTS
AGE GROUP 9 – 11 YEARS
1st LICE FLOWERs
2nd ACK AITKIN
3rd HE BLACKHAMS & THE CLARKS
AGE GROUP 12 – 15 YEARS
1st LEO DIEBEL & ALICE STEVENSON
2nd CHLOE SIMPKINS
3d ROSIE DUNKAN
All prize winners received cash awards, medals and a 60th Anniversary Mug filled with sweeties.
The 2008 Alderney’s Got Talent Show was sponsored by the Belle Vue Hotel, Rian Cloete and MFD Ltd.
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Evening:
- “Alderney’s Got Talent” Show for the under 16
- The Alderney Blowers’ Open Air Concert, this time in Victoria Street
- Spooks Walk through the streets of St. Anne
- Pirates Disco at the Old Barn
First ever Street Concert
Logistics proved quite a problem when it came to setting up the island’s first ever Street Concert in Victoria Street. How do you get a marquee from the Butes down to Lower Victoria Street? With great difficulty - and a little help from the 30 Signal Regiment.
Finding enough chairs for a vast audience proved another difficulty and with just 300 chairs available, there was standing room only. But it was more than worth it and the overall effect was spectacular. The Alderney Blowers delighted everybody with their ever increasing repertoire and even got people dancing in the street. The acoustics were perfect and one of the highlights of this memorable evening was a guest appearance by 18-year old Rosie Evans whose beautiful voice enchanted everybody. Rosie was the winner of the following day’s X-Factor Show.
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The above photographs were taken Alderney Week Team Member Ilona Soane-Sands, States of Alderney Marketing Manager Joanna Parmentier and independent photographer Paul Coles.
You are welcome to download any of these for personal use. However, should you wish to use these for commercial or publicity purposes, you will require the prior consent of the author. Please email info@alderneyweek.net
A DVD containing over 1,600 photographs is available on request, at the cost of £6 (which includes packaging/postage). Please send your order together with a cheque payable to Alderney Week, to Alderney Week Team, PO Box 138, Alderney GY9 3HF.
To find out what happened during the other days of Alderney Week, simply click on the relevant date:
Day Two: Sunday 3 August
Day Three: Monday 4 August – CAVALCADE DAY
Day Four: Tuesday 5 August
Day Five: Wednesday 6 August
Day Seven: Friday 8 August
Day Eight: Saturday 9 August
Day Nine: Sunday 10 August – THE END OF ALDERNEY WEEK