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South Wirral Garden & Country Fair Cancelled

The South Wirral Garden & Country Fair due to have taken place this coming weekend in Parkgate has been cancelled due to poor weather.

During a routine site inspection, waterlogged ground conditions (caused by heavy rain over the last few days) forced the implementation of preventative measures of constructing temporary roadways. No roadway was available in the UK due to exceptionally high demand caused by the wet season, officials acting on behalf of Liability Insurers (with safety in mind) surveyed the showfields and car parks and found it totally unsuitable to continue the construction of the event.

With the prevailing forecast and the unlikely improvement of ground conditions, the operation of the event was stopped immediately and organisers were forced to accept the inevitable.

Show organiser Kelvin Pye explained:

"The ground is completely water-logged and there's no way we'd have been able to get all the heavy vehicles on site for our exhibitors and other attractions," he said.

"We have had so much rain over the last three days, there is more forecast for the weekend and it is actually quite still on the showground so it is not even as if there is any breeze to start drying it out.

"There were also health and safety issues, in terms of being able to get emergency service vehicles on and off site in the event of a major incident that I just simply couldn't ignore.

"I would just like to apologise to all our regulars - visitors and exhibitors - particularly those who have already bought tickets.
Naturally anyone who has already made an advance purchase will be entitled to a full refund or can simply transfer the ticket to any of our other events since it is fully-transferable.

"I am running seven shows this season and in all the years I have been in the business I think I have been very lucky because I have never had so much as a single day washed out before, much less a whole show.It's a very sad day and I've now got an enormous amount of work left to do in terms of trying to contact everyone who would have been involved."

For visitors who have purchased advanced tickets, full refunds will be given on redemption or as the tickets are transferrable they can be utilised at any of the other events listed on the back of the ticket.

For more information, or to arrange a ticket-swap or refund, contact Kelvin Pye on 01704 212734

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