SATURDAY 11 August

Morning

Superman & Superwoman Competition

Super Beard Competition

Super Granny Competition

The Grand Alderney Week Draw 2007 &  Alderney Week Programme Prize Draw   

 

Afternoon:

Kiddies Pedal Kart Race – the Butes

Children’s Sport and Tea Party at the Butes

Cream tea and private film screening at the Braye Beach Hotel of Hollywood Blockbuster “The Rosebud Series” produced in Alderney.  

Snooker Open - Finals

Evening:     

Torch Distribution - Island Hall Front Gardens

TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION leaves Royal Connaught Square for The Butes  

Lighting the Bonfire on the Butes  

Alderney Week Grand Firework Display - Butes

Ronnie and Friends ….. Acoustic Night

“Quarry 2007” at Corporation Quarry with Light & Laser Show –Top DJ’s from around the World join together to give you a night to remember! 

 

 

In the morning it was all about Super Stars – from Superman and Superwoman to Super Beard and Super Granny.

The strongest man proved to be Mr. Alderney 2007 – Matt Gaudion.

The Superwoman was Amanda Buckley and the best beard was sported by Wally Walters.  

Lisa Beavis clinched the title of SuperGranny with great strength, fantastically good looks and plenty of charm. The prizes were awarded by

Miss Alderney 1985 Lisa Bunn (née Mahieu) who hasn’t lost any of her looks.

 

 

In the afternoon sports activities set the scene for the youngsters – with pedal kart racing and the Children’s Sports & Tea Party on the Butes.

 

 

And below is a report by ITV Channel Television’s Alderney reporter and cameraman Nigel Soane-Sands

Alderney Week Day 8: Torchlight Procession and Grand Firework Finale

 

Alderney Week 2007 – 8 days and nights of non-stop family fun and entertainment – drew to a dazzling close last night  (Saturday) with the traditional Torchlight Procession and a spectacular firework finale.

 

Led by the town crier, Miss Alderney and her entourage and the Alderney Week Team, a half-mile long crocodile of around 2,500 people – most with flaming torches held aloft – meandered through St. Anne’s from Royal Connaught Square in paganish ritual to The Butes where the torches fuelled a 20-ft high bonfire.

 

“Hollywood” was this year’s Alderney Week theme , and atop the bonfire was an 8-ft high Oscar.

 

A further 500 or so people swelled the happy crowd for a dazzling 10-minute firework display set to music and organised, as ever, by local impresario Ray Parkin.

 

Alderney Week was over 120 major events many of which will return by popular demand next year beginning on  2 August and marking the 60th anniversary of post-war Alderney Weeks.  

 

            

 

These photos were taken by Ilona Soane-Sands, Joanna Parmentier, James Adair and Ian Laurence and can be downloaded for your personal use. Any commercial use of these photographs requires the prior authorisation of Alderney Week. Please email info@alderneyweek.net  with your request. 

 

More photographs of today’s events are published on the official Alderney website. Click here

 

 

A large number of digital high- res photographs of these and all major Alderney Week events, totalling in excess of 1,700 -  are available on a DVD

(Cost £5 + postage) and will be released by mid-September.  

Simply e-mail info@alderneyweek.net