25th July 1968
TENTH CARNIVAL IS "THE BEST YET!"
£1,000 KNOTTINGLEY GATE
‘The
Best Ever’, was the opinion of many people after Knottingley’s tenth
annual Carnival and Sports at the Green House playing fields on Saturday.
The afternoon was perfect with bright sunshine bringing out a large crowd
to see American pop celebrity Gene Pitney perform the opening ceremony.
Events
started with the procession of floats through Ferrybridge and Knottingley,
to be judged as they returned to the field. The judges were Mr. and Mrs M.
Turner, Mr. and Mrs J. Donaldson, Sister Langley and Mrs J. Marshall. They
chose the ‘Diddy Men’ as the children’s tableau winner and ‘Spanish
Fiesta’ as the winner of the adult tableau.
After
the procession, Councillor W. Sarvent introduced the president of the
Carnival Committee, Mr. D. Pettitt, its chairman, Mr. S. Burton, the
Chairman of K.U.D.C., Councillor Mary Nunns, and Gene Pitney.
Accompanied
by the band, Gene Pitney sang ‘The Star Spangled Banner’. He then
crowned the Carnival Queen, Miss Ellen Reynolds, who received an inscribed
watch, and both she and the deputy queen, Miss Sharon Burton, received
rose bowls. After bouquets had been presented to the women judges by the
Carnival Queen, Mr. Pitney retired to the pavilion where a long queue of
autograph-hunters formed.
