Cambridge Brass Band, conducted by musical Director Rob Hocking, in full swing inside the historic St Andrew’s Anglican Church.
Ian Dunn has presided over more St Andrew’s craft fairs than the veteran verger is prepared to admit.
But he is in no doubt that Labour Day Monday’s event – the first in two years because of Covid – was the busiest he had seen in many years.
From the minute the stalls opened at 9am till when they started packing up at 2pm, the crowds were cheek to jowl.
Ian Dunn takes in the music from the Cambridge Brass Band inside St Andrew’s Anglican Church. Photo: Mary Anne Gill
Dunn, who had heart surgery a few weeks ago, had planned everything meticulously confirming 137 stalls with another 30 on the waiting list.
“The ones working in the kitchen say it’s the best they’ve ever done,” he said.
“We will never know how much money the stall holders make but they seemed pretty happy too.”
The Cambridge Brass Band played in the church from 10am providing plenty of toe-tapping music.
“They were great. They made the church rock,” said Dunn, who admitted when it was all tidied up, he was “a happy and tired man.”
Record crowds attended the first post Covid St Andrews Craft and Collectable Fair on Monday. Photos: Mary Anne Gill
He is already planning the next craft fair on Anniversary Weekend in January and looking for ways to accommodate the extra stall holders.
