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Try before you buy! Taste our Local Flavours
range at the Alresford Watercress Festival 2010!
Meet our store colleagues and find out more about how
we support Hampshire Food producers
Your local Southern Co-operative store passionate about good food and commited
to the community
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This nationally acclaimed food festival celebrates watercress - the superb
locally grown, delicious and versatile crop - and draws together the local
community and food lovers from far and wide for a day of food and fun.
In Broad Street you will find a huge
food market and award-winning
chefs and food writers giving cookery
demonstrations. A large festival market
in West Street and Station Road
features arts, crafts, jewellery and
clothing, items for house and garden
and much else besides. Many local
charities and voluntary organisations
will be providing an insight into
Alresford’s rich community life.
One of the main highlights of the
festival is the street cavalcade at
10.30am with jazz musicians, Morris
dancers and local school children
accompanying the Watercress King
and Queen atop a horse and cart
distributing the first of the season’s
watercress harvest to festival goers.
Throughout the day, there are activities
for children of all ages, including circus
skills workshops, face painting, a
magician, treasure trails, climbing wall
and a petting farm. Everyone is sure to
enjoy the delights of the many street
entertainers and musicians.
be a starter, main or even a watercress
dessert! See page 14 for more details.
If you would like to find out more about
this local superfood, why not take a
watercress farm tour (as spaces are
limited, you are encouraged to prebook, please see page 4 for details).
If you have time, you might also like
to visit the medieval Soke Bridge at the
bottom of Broad Street and Alresford’s
historic Fulling Mill and Eel House found
on a short walk along the banks of the
picturesque River Arle.
There’s plenty of festival parking in
Alresford and Ropley, from where you
can enjoy a FREE return train ride into
the festival on the famous Watercress
Line heritage railway. See page 10 for
full directions and parking details.
Finally, we look forward to meeting you
on the 16th May and hope that you
will be delighted with what the festival
and the town of New Alresford have to
offer, and that you have a thoroughly
enjoyable day out!
We are also delighted to announce
that the “World Watercress Eating
Championships” are back by popular
demand and are open to all-comers aged
18 or over.
Have Hildon delivered direct to your door
www.hildon.com or √ 01794 302002
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Alresford Watercress Festival
Help us decide the ‘Best Watercress Dish
for under £10’ by joining in the new
Alresford Watercress Festival Eateries
Awards in the four weeks leading up to
the festival. Visit the participating local
venues and cast your vote - it could
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The Woolpack Inn
Totford, Nr Northington
t: 0845 2938 066
Watercress has been cultivated in the pure spring waters of southern England since the
early 1800s, earning it the accolade of the UK’s most historic salad leaf, but how much do
you know about this natural superfood?
Watercress has been used as a medicinal herb since ancient times. The Greek general
Xenophon ensured his soldiers ate it as a tonic and Hippocrates, the father of medicine, is
thought to have decided on the location of his first hospital because of its proximity to a
stream so he could use only the freshest watercress to treat his patients.
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Gram for gram, watercress contains more vitamin C than oranges, more calcium than milk
and more iron than spinach.
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A dietary trial conducted by the University of Ulster in 2007 showed that eating watercress
daily can significantly reduce DNA damage to blood cells, which is considered to be an
important trigger in the development of cancer. Further research has been undertaken
among breast cancer patients at Southampton University.
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Alresford is known as the UK’s capital of watercress farming. During its heyday in the
Victorian times, the Watercress Line steam railway used to transport tonnes of the plant
up to the Old Covent Garden Market. Street sellers would make it into bunches and wrap
them in paper so it could be eaten like an ice cream cone – the first “on the go” food.
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Eliza James, who started selling watercress at the age of 5 to Birmingham factory workers,
went on to become a millionaire, opening up vast watercress beds across Surrey and
Hampshire. She was known as the “Watercress Queen” and despite her wealth still turned
up every morning to work her stall at Covent Garden Market.
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Watercress is a member of the healthy brassica family and is related to broccoli, cabbage,
brussel sprouts, cauliflower, rocket and radish – it should not be confused with mustard and
cress, a different species.
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Watercress is a staple food among the Chinese, who believe that it brings the body back
into balance, holistically and nutritionally.
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Watercress is a semi aquatic plant and grows in the most idyllic of circumstances, alongside
streams and rivers where the springs rise. Farmers harness this water directly from the
spring deep underground and channel it through their shallow gravel watercress beds.
Find out more on free tours running during the Watercress Festival on 16 May at
Pinglestone watercress farm (ring 01264 732034 to book a place on the 11.30 a.m. or 1.30
sessions) or Manor watercress farm (ring 01929 463241 for the 11 a.m. or 2 p.m. sessions).
Both are just a short stroll from Alresford’s Broad Street where the festival is taking place.
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Watercress literally oozes beta-carotene which is needed for healthy skin and eyes. No
wonder 17th Century philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon claimed it could “restore a
youthful bloom to women.”
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Liz Hurley is a huge watercress fan and is known to cook up large vats of watercress soup
when she is on one of her famous diets. For the recipe log onto www.watercress.co.uk
The Woolpack Inn has re-opened
after an extensive refurbishment
and Brian and Jarina Ahearn
look forward to welcoming
you. In addition to our regularly
changing, seasonal menus, we
include a traditional Sunday lunch
roast with all the trimmings. Our
seven bed and breakfast rooms
are ensuite, with heavy emphasis
on home comfort.
www.thewoolpackinn.co.uk
Butler & Co
Bennett House,
The Dean, Alresford
t: 01962 735544
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food store offers local and
international products; pestos,
oils, Hampshire speciality cheeses
and their own Caracoli Kitchen
branded goodies!
www.caracoli.co.uk
Mid Hants Railway
‘Watercress Line’
The Railway Station,
Alresford
t: 01962 733810
www.cookacademy.co.uk
The Naked Grape
20 West Street, Alresford
t: 01962 732002
Specialist wine merchant
supporting local producers and
small businesses. Hampshire has
some great quality producers
and we are proud to be
associated with the best wine,
beer and cider producers. Hand
chosen and pre-tasted by us
to ensure quality and value for
money, we sell the best local
products we can find.
www.thenakedgrape.co.uk
Let the train take the strain as
you sit back, relax and travel by
steam train through ten miles of
beautiful Hampshire countryside.
Special events include Steam
Galas, Day Out With Thomas,
War on the Line, Wizard Week
and Santa Specials. Don’t miss
our luxury dining, real ale trains
and the ultimate gift - driving
experiences!
www.watercressline.co.uk
Caracoli
15 Broad Street, Alresford
t: 01962 738730
Alresford based Chartered
Accountants and Registered
Auditors, Butler & Co offer a full
range of accountancy, auditing
and taxation services tailored to
suit your needs and are farming
and equine specialists. For a free
initial consultation contact Julie
Butler, managing partner, via
email [email protected]
www.butler-co.co.uk
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Alresford/Winchester
t: 01962 734850
Hampshire’s leading cookery
school has opened a new
cookery school at the Station
Mill in Alresford. We offer
one day workshops, evening
courses, private tuition, private
cookery parties and corporate
team building events and that
is not all!. Come and see us at
the Watercress Festival - we
will be doing hands on cookery
workshops throughout the day.
10 Reasons to Celebrate the Start of the British Watercress Season
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Cook Academy
Caracoli specialises in fresh local
produce and products from all
over the world. The coffeehouse
offers a full range of coffees
and teas, complemented by
homemade cakes, artisan breads,
biscuits and light lunches. The
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Manor Farm (Old Alresford)
(20 mins walk from Broad St)
pinch of sugar
salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 (500g) bag fresh potato gnocchi
1 (85g) bag watercress
watercress and parmesan cheese
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2. Place the watercress on a board and
use a knife to very roughly chop it;
place the watercress in a colander.
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Car Park 450 spaces
(10 mins walk to Broad St)
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pancetta and sauté for 5 mins or until
golden and the fat has run out. Add
the garlic and tomatoes, sauté for 2
mins, then add the chilli, wine and
sugar. Cover and simmer for 5 mins.
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Watercress is a small leaf with a
powerful peppery kick. Use it to liven
up sandwiches and salads, whizz into a
hollandaise sauce to serve with salmon,
throw into a stir fry or stir into mashed
potato or pasta to give yourself a
nutritional boost.
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3. Cook the gnocchi in boiling water
according to packet instructions.
Drain the gnocchi in the colander
pouring it on top of the watercress.
Leave to drain for 1 minute before
tossing into the hot sauce. Serve
topped with a little more watercress
and parmesan shavings.
Watercress Book
British watercress farmers
have published a special
book dedicated to
this historic salad leaf.
Packed with over 30
recipes, history, folklore
and health facts including five exclusive
recipes from Antony Worrall Thompson, the
“Watercress” book is available to buy from
www.watercress.co.uk priced at £6.99 +
pp. Or pick up a copy at the Watercress
Festival at the special price of £5.00 from The
Watercress Alliance stand in Broad Street.
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SUNDAY 16th MAY 2010
10am to 4pm
The street cavalcade gets things going and is the chance for
festival-goers to taste some of the first watercress of the season.
Music, song and dance performances take place all day on the
Main Stage, outside St. John’s Church and on the streets! Wellknown chefs and food writers demonstrate their skills and some
mouth-watering recipes at the Cookery Demo Unit.
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AT THE BOTTOM OF BROAD STREET
please note final timings may differ
Well-known award-winning chefs and food writers and some
contestants in this year’s “Create & Cook” competition for Hampshire
Secondary schools will demonstrate their skills and some mouthwatering recipes.
Between demos, experts from the Watercress Alliance (our principal
sponsors) will extol the virtues of watercress and answer questions
from the public.
10.00 am Lainston House Hotel’s Andy MacKenzie
10.45 am Cresson Creative’s Jennifer Laing
STARTS AT 10.30 AM
11.30 am Cook Academy’s Kate Hughes
The cavalcade starts from the Globe public house and proceeds up
Broad Street. Sussex Jazz Kings, Basingclog Morris, Hook Eagles
Morris and Dorset Buttons Rapper and children from Sun Hill Infants
and Junior School will accompany a horse and cart which carries this
year’s Watercress King and Queen who will distribute the first of the
season’s watercress harvest to festival-goers.
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Lainston House Hotel’s Andy MacKenzie
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Cook Academy’s Kate Hughes
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Jennifer Laing and Fit2Cook’s Davina Tibbetts
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Throughout the day, expect to find Basingclog Morris, Hook Eagles Morris
and Dorset Buttons Rapper and members of the Perins Youth Theatre
dancing, playing music and acting on the streets in central Alresford.
10.00 am Easy Street play jazz and blues classics
10.45 am Sun Hill Infants & Juniors dance and sing
11.15 am Sussex Jazz Kings play jazz standards
12 noon
ACTS sing and dance numbers from their shows
12.30 pm World Watercress Eating Championships
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1.00 pm
Easy Street play some more jazz and blues
1.45 pm
Sussex Jazz Kings play jazz standards
2.30 pm
Presentations - 2010 Eateries Awards & Food Awards
3.00 pm
Sussex Jazz Kings and Easy Street return until 4.00 pm
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Bring a rug, sit on the grass, picnic on the delicious food on offer and
listen to two groups of excellent young musicians
11.00 am Alton Area Wind Orchestra
12 noon
Hampshire County Youth Training Band
1.00 pm
Alton Area Wind Orchestra
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The town of New Alresford is easily found off the A31, seven miles to the east of Winchester.
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F ES TI VA L PA R K & R I D E
The festival is operating a FREE Return Train Ride Service on the famous Mid Hants Railway ‘Watercress Line’
from Ropley to Alresford and back for festival goers. The service will run all day from 8.45am to 5.30pm and
use the scheduled steam trains and an additional heritage diesel shuttle. ‘Free Festival Travel’ tickets issued at
Ropley car park will be required for travel to Alresford and back (travel starting at Alresford will not be free). If
you wish to travel the rest of the ‘Watercress Line’ on the day, Mid Hants Railway fares will apply. Ropley is a
designated Festival Car Park and the charge of £3 per car will apply.
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A heritage diesel shuttle service will run all day from 8.45am to 5.42pm between Ropley and Alresford stations, in between the
timetabled steam locos and as frequently as is required.
BY CAR
Depending on your route, follow
the directions below to find the
nearest Festival Car Park.
Parking charges £3.
Disabled parking for festivalgoers is at the Alresford
station car park, please
follow the yellow AA road
signs. Other parking may be
unsuitable as it is in fields.
From Petersfield
From London
on the A3/southbound on the A31
Head for Ropley station and use
the Festival Park & Ride
Follow the A3 out of London to
Guildford, then take the A31 south
which is signposted Farnham/
Alton/Winchester. Ropley station is
located off the A31. Turn right into
Station Hill (before Shell garage)
and proceed to festival car park.
Head for Hollingbury Field car
park in Old Alresford
Follow the A339 under the
motorway. After 100 yards turn right
onto the B3046. Continue through
the Candovers into Old Alresford
and after passing the church (on
your left), turn right into Abbotstone
Lane. Follow signs for Hollingbury
Field car park. The festival is just a
short walk in to town.
From M3 Motorway
Stratton Bates Playing Field Car Park
Head for Ropley station and use
the Festival Park & Ride
Exit at M3 Junction 9 (southbound)
or Junction 10 (northbound) and
follow signs to join A31 signposted
New Alresford and Alton. Continue
on the A31 past Alresford to
Ropley; turn left into Station Hill
just after passing the Shell garage
and proceed to festival car park.
If you are unable to use the Park
& Ride, enter Alresford from the
West, take the B3047 from the
first A31 roundabout, drive down
Pound Hill, turn right in to Jacklyns
Lane, right again in to Grange
Road and park at Stratton Bates
Car Park. The festival is a short
walk in to town.
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Head for Ropley station and use
the Festival Park & Ride
Take the A272 signposted
Winchester, turn right at Bramdean
Garage and continue through
Bramdean Common. At the
roundabout turn right onto the
A31, then turn left into Station Hill
just after passing the Shell garage.
From Basingstoke
BY TRAIN
South West Trains services direct
from London Waterloo to Alton
where you can board the Mid
Hants Railway steam train to
enjoy the 40-minute journey to
Alresford. Standard Travel Tickets
cost £12 for adults, £6 for children
(2-16 yrs) and £30 for a family
ticket (2 adults and
2 children). For further details
and advance booking,
visit www.watercressline.co.uk
BY BU S
The festival is held on a Sunday and
bus routes are altered due to the
road closures in the town centre,
therefore please check with your
bus service provider for details.
BY C OACH
The Festival Coach Park is at Perins
School in the centre of the town.
Parking charges of £20 per coach.
NB - coaches will NOT be allowed
to enter other Festival Car Parks
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For reservations and
tickets for events,
call Lainston on
01962 776088
or email enquiries@
lainstonhouse.com
Lainston House Executive Head Chef Andy Mackenzie and star of
this year’s Watercress Festival is inviting visitors to the Festival to dine
at the recently transformed, 3 AA Rosette Avenue Restaurant from
just £15 per person!
This advert entitles the bearer to dine at the Avenue Restaurant at
Lainston for £15 per person for a two-course lunch or £20 for a
three-course lunch or dinner.
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Valid to 30th June 2010 subject to availability, excluding Saturday, Sunday lunch
and Friday/Saturday dinner. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.
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The Alresford Watercress Festival owes a huge amount to the many local volunteers who work
tirelessly during the months leading up to the festival and on the day itself.
Teams and individuals will be busy booking performers, children’s entertainers, celebrity
chefs and stall-holders, inviting entries for the Eateries and Food Awards, liaising with the
Emergency Services and licensing authorities, issuing Press releases, designing artwork and
writing copy for the programme, flyer, poster and website. Others will arrange the logistics
including traffic signs, loos, stage, cookery demo unit, power supplies, walkie-talkies, etc.
On the day of the festival, over 100 volunteers will manage car parks, man traffic barriers,
assist set-up the markets, ensure the site is neat, tidy and litter-free, provide assistance to
many of the 10,000 visitors expected and perform numerous other tasks...always striving to
ensure that visitors have a happy, enjoyable and truly memorable time at the festival.
Their efforts ensure that the festival continues to feature as such an important event in
the town’s calendar. They also give a very good impression of a team who are enjoying
themselves!
The organisations involved are
Alresford Rugby Club
Old Alresford Cricket Club
Alresford Young Farmers
Alresford PIGS Association
Alresford Rotary Club
Alresford & Cheriton Scout Group
The same sentiments can also be expressed of the sponsors, partners and advertisers without
whose generous help we could not offer such an amazingly good FREE day out.
HAMPSHIRE
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Well, where do we start? The festival has several
competitions to get everybody involved!
FOOD AWARDS
...an opportunity for the
producers to shine.
Food producers are invited to
enter their most innovative
watercress recipe in the
“Food Awards”. Our judges
will be wandering around the
market looking for the possible winners and
presenting the awards during the day.
THE WORLD WATERCRESS
EATING CHAMPIONSHIPS
EATERIES AWARDS ’Best Watercress
Dish for under £10’...in eateries near you
In the four weeks leading up to the festival,
many of the local restaurants, cafés, pubs and
hotels will be serving diners with their own
authentic, imaginative and tasty watercressbased dish for under £10. It could be a starter,
main or even a dessert (yes, even a dessert!)
using watercress as a major ingredient.
Visit www.watercressfestival.org to find out
more about this fantastic offer and how you
can help us decide the winner!
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Join us this year to set a new Guinness World
RecordTM by munching your way through two
bags of fresh watercress and washing them
down with a small bottle of Hildon Natural
Mineral Water in the fastest time. If you are
18 or over, come at 12 noon and sign up at
the Main Stage.
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Juggling Jake returns by popular
demand with his circus skills
workshop. This year we have
invited the renowned magician,
Kaye of Kayemagic, to entertain
and confound you.
New for 2010, we are excited to
be able to bring the countryside
to town when Kidsrome set up
their children’s
mobile farm
to entertain
and educate young and
old. The “farm on the
mooove” in East Street
is a rare opportunity for
children to get up close to
a range of farm animals
including a pony, donkey,
cow, sheep, rabbits,
chickens and to talk to a farmer.
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There is a climbing wall in East Street to get
your adrenalin pumping. There will be face
painting and hair braiding outside The Bell
Hotel and the ‘magic’ roundabout in Broad
Street for younger visitors.
Treasuretrails have created a fun treasure
trail around the festival. Pick up your FREE
treasure trail leaflet from their gazebo
outside the Bell Hotel and follow the clues
and see some of the best sights during a rare
‘traffic-free’ day in the centre of Alresford.
You might even be a lucky winner in the prize
draw open to those who successfully solve
the mystery of the trail.
Great fun for pre-teens
(and the rest of
the family).
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MONDAY 19th APRIL
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2010 sees a new format for the “Eateries Awards”.
In the four weeks leading up to the festival, many of
the local restaurants, cafés, pubs and hotels will be
serving diners with their own authentic, imaginative
and tasty watercress-based dish for under £10. It
could be a starter, main or even a dessert (yes, even a
dessert!) using watercress as a major ingredient.
The public will be encouraged to vote so please check
back here to find out how you can help us decide the
winner! A panel of expert judges will visit the leading
entries as mystery diners before announcing the
winners on 16th May.
The following eateries have already signed up for the
competition. Others may be joining over the coming
weeks....so watch this page for updates.
2010
EATERIES
AWARD
IN AN EATERY NEAR YOU!
The following eateries, have
already signed up for the
competition...
• Alresford Bangladesh &
Indian
• Bean Below, Twyford
• Bell Hotel, Alresford
• Bush, Ovington
• Caracoli, Alresford
• Chesil Rectory, Winchester
• Chestnut Horse, Easton
• Courtyard Tea Rooms,
Alresford
• Crown Inn, Axford
• Forte Tearooms & Brasserie,
Winchester
• Hen & Chicken, Upper Froyle
• Lainston House Hotel,
Sparsholt
• Old Vine, Winchester
• Pub With No Name, Priors
Dean (The White Horse)
• Selborne Arms, Selborne
• Shapla Restaurant, Alresford
• Swan Hotel, Alresford
• Woolpack,
Totford, Northington