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Neston's giant miner on parade in Chester

CAN Group once again took the Neston giant miner to the Chester Mid Summer watch parade and Big Giant Festival on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th June.

This year's parade was even bigger than last year's when over 70,000 people turned up to watch the annual event.

The BiG Giant Festival is now officially the biggest Giant Parade in the UK with over 50 giants taking part. It was even more of an international event this year too, with Catalonian Giants, two giants from Costa Rica, Big Heads from Nicaragua and Brazil and a Baden Powell giant from Belgium.

CAN families joined in the fun, dressing up as miners complete with lanterns, and the children loved waving to the crowds and posing for tourist's cameras. CAN volunteers helped to push the giant through the streets and dressed up themselves.

On Sunday, the giant miner took part in a giant chess match which was great fun, and the sun shone throughout the two days of festivities, further adding to everyone's enjoyment of the event.

The parade is a celebration of Chester's community activity focusing on the City's ancient history and heritage of giant building. It's surprising how few people know about the event, considering it's such a marvelous spectacle.

The Midsummer Watch is one of Britain's oldest festivals - in Medieval and Tudor times, Chester's Midsummer Watch Parade was renowned throughout the country. To see what it's all about go to: www.midsummerwatch.co.uk  and www.chesterthegiantcity.com  for information and film of the parades through the years.

CAN would like to thank all the families and volunteers who helped to make Neston's contribution to the parade such a success, and big thanks to the Chester City of Giants for organizing the event.

After this year's event Cllr Neil Ritchie, the Lord Mayor of Chester said: "With all the Giants as well as the Town Criers and all the entrants the event lifted itself to a higher plane than I have ever experienced in Chester.

"Such colour and imagination, such music and vitality, such enthusiasm and such huge crowds - where else apart from Notting Hill would you see such an event?"

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