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| | LONG EATON CARNIVAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Held in September 1931, a fortnight or so after the now long vanished Long Eaton Wakes, the townsfolk organised a week long schedule of events, gala dinners, concerts and parades. |
 | | The ultimate aim of the events was to raising funds for local hospitals, and for the people of Long Eaton to show their indebtedness to them. |
 | | Jumping quickly to 1970, the committee of the Long Eaton Festival of Music and the Arts, [an event which had provided similar events in the intervening years,] agreed to start the Carnival as the opener for their week long activities, and in 1971, the Long Eaton Advertiser reported: |
| www.longeatoncarnival.org.uk /history.html (350 words) |
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