Windsor and Eton Living Advent Calendar

Based on an original idea from Stockholm, The Windsor and Eton Living Advent Calendar is a collaborative project run with Windsor and Eton Town Partnership, Windsor Observer and 24 local businesses to provide live entertainment every evening from 1 to 24 December 2014.

Like a children’s advent calendar, a different window or door is opened every evening at 6:15pm promptly and a 15 minute performance is given to the audience assembled outside each participating business.

Performances will range from songs, carols, music, poetry, book excerpts, creative arts, notes from local history or folklore, sketches and dance, all with a Christmas theme.

Each participating business will have their own event to run and In true advent calendar style the details of the of the actual performance will be kept secret and revealed on the day.

Organised by Windsor and Eton Town Partnership, This is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate Christmas involving all the community and provide a great opportunity for local groups to engage with businesses in a different way.

Living Advent Calendar Venues (please note that venues and performances may change and all performances are subject to weather conditions.  Please refer towww.windsorobserver.co.uk/livingadvent for the latest information.

Monday 1 December: King & Castle, Thames Street
Tuesday 2 December: The Gallery at Ice, High Street
Wednesday 3 December: tbc
Thursday 4 December: Theatre Royal Windsor, Thames Street
Friday 5 December: Windsor On Ice, Alexandra Gardens
Saturday 6 December: Talents of Windsor, Guildhall Island
Sunday 7 December: Sir Christoper Wren, Thames Street
Monday 8 December: Wagamama, Thames Street/Windsor Royal Shopping
Tuesday 9 December: Luxe Flowers, Eton High Street
Wednesday 10 December: Royal Borough Museum, Guildhall, High Street
Thursday 11 December: Hotter Shoes, Peascod Street
Friday 12 December: Eton Town Centre
Saturday 13 December: Windsor Castle
Sunday 14 December: French Brothers, Promenade
Monday 15 December: Richer Sounds, Eton High Street
Tuesday 16 December: Castle Hotel, High Street
Wednesday 17 December: Natural History Museum, Eton College
Thursday 18 December: JAM Eton, Eton High Street
Friday 19 December: Bel and the Dragon, Datchet Road/Thames Street
Saturday 20 December: Bang & Olufsen, High Street
Sunday 21 December: Harte & Garter, Thames Street
Monday 22 December: Macdonald Hotel, High Street
Tuesday 23 December: Waterstones, Peascod Street
Wednesday 24 December: Windsor Parish Church, High Street

Windsor Christmas Lights 2014

BBC News - Queen's trees book missing for 35 years put on display

BBC News - Queen's trees book missing for 35 years put on display: "A book listing the donors of more than 1,000 trees given to the Queen for her Silver Jubilee in 1977 has been put on display after being lost for 35 years.

The Queen's Trees Record had been forgotten after being wrongly catalogued and then misfiled.

It was discovered after a two-year search, led by Ray Attwood, a member of the Sealed Knot re-enactment society.

A ceremony, led by members of the Sealed Knot, was held to reinstate the book at Windsor Guildhall."

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Windsor Duck Tours - River Cruise Offer

Duck Tour River Cruise - Details and Buy Offer: 
For £12 (an £18 value) receive one adult ticket for a scenic river tour with Windsor Duck Tours.
Two adults tickets are £20 (a £36 value).

Take the little ones along and get one ticket for a child aged 1-5 for £5 (a £6 value). One ticket for those aged 6-12 for £8 (a £12 value). One ticket for ages 13-17 for £10 (a £15 value). Two tickets for 1-5 year olds are £8 (a £12 value). For 6-12 year old two tickets are £14 (a £24 value). For 13-17 year olds two tickets are £18 (a £30 value). Pick-up point is opposite the Theatre Royal. Choose to go on a weekday or weekend.

Ingresso Deal - Amazon Local - Windsor

Ingresso Deal - Thames Valley: Amazon Local: £20

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BBC News - Queen Victoria's diaries on display at Windsor Castle

BBC News - Queen Victoria's diaries on display at Windsor Castle:

Queen Victoria's early diaries are to go on show at Windsor Castle.

The then Princess Victoria was given her first journal by her mother, the Duchess of Kent, in August 1832, when she was 13 and about to be taken on an educational tour of the country.

It was the start of a passion for writing that would span a lifetime.

The diaries are to be displayed at an exhibition from next Saturday marking the centenary of the royal archives housed at the Round Tower at Windsor.

The 1832 tour, which also served the purpose of allowing the public to see their future Queen, began with a visit to to Powis Castle in Wales .

The visits also also took in the newly industrialised Midlands.

It was an unfamiliar sight for the young princess, who describes in the first pages of her new diary "I can not by any description give an idea of its strange and extraordinary appearance.

"The country is very desolate every where; there are coals about, and the grass is quite blasted and black. I just now see an extraordinary building flaming with fire."

She also writes of the "large and dirty town" of Wolverhampton where "we were received with great friendliness and pleasure".

Princess Victoria's recording of her studies the following year shows she would spend half an hour each morning writing in a journal, before lessons in history, geography, Latin or general knowledge.

By the time she died in January 1901, Queen Victoria had written more than 43,000 pages within 141 journals.

She also corresponded with members of her family in Britain and Europe, as well as ministers, ambassadors, heads of state and the Church.

Brief diaries were also kept in Hindustani, which she began to learn in 1887, 10 years after being made Empress of India.

The vast amount of personal and official material prompted the setting up of a permanent home for all documents relating to the Royal Family and Royal Household, at the Round Tower in 1914.

Queen Victoria's first journal is among the 25 documents at the exhibition, which will run until 25 January next year.

But only 13 of the original volumes of the diaries, dating from 1832 to 1836, survive. Queen Victoria had instructed her daughter Princess Beatrice to produce abridged copies of the remaining volumes before destroying the originals.

The then Princess Victoria's first journal is among the documents on display until next January

BBC News - Royal Family unveils Windsor horse statue

BBC News - Royal Family unveils Windsor horse statue:

The Queen, Prince Philip and Prince William have unveiled a life-sized horse sculpture in Windsor.

The statue is of two Windsor Greys, Daniel and Storm, who draw the royal carriages on state occasions.

The £200,000 cost of the statue has been raised by Windsor residents to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

Windsor Greys Jubilee Appeal trustee Sally Merrick said it was "a very exciting day indeed" and that the Queen knows the horses "intimately".

Money for the statue was raised through charity events including one at Windsor Racecourse.

Sculptor Robert Rattray said: "These magnificent beasts are often seen around Windsor on state occasions or while exercising, so their sculptural homage will be installed close to the stables."

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New themed land DUPLO® Valley

Experience the dark ride - Laser Raiders

Visit a galaxy of LEGO® Star Wars™ stars

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Atlantis Submarine Voyage

Experience LEGO’s® new Legends of Chima in extraordinary 4D

Build your car and race your friends through a virtual world in Rocket Racers

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April to October: Daily

Check-in time: 9:00am*, 10:00am and 11:00am

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LEGOLAND® Windsor

Play your part at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort with over 55 interactive rides and attractions. Fly through the treetops to escape fearsome dragons, ride the thrilling rapids with a Viking Fleet or join LEGO® divers on a magical underwater adventure on Atlantis Submarine Voyage.

New from March ‘May the Force be with you’ as the UK’s only LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience comes to LEGOLAND® Windsor recreating seven of the most famous scenes from the classic Star Wars™ films including a scene from the animated series: Star Wars: The Clone Wars, using around 1.5 million LEGO® bricks.

DUPLO® Valley – Splash & Play - Opens May 2013

There will be exhilarating water play in the DUPLO® Splash Safari where rangers large and small will discover their favourite supersized DUPLO animals. Also new in DUPLO Valley, Drench Towers, a truly unique and by far the largest outdoor water play structure in the UK! Are you brave enough to face the mighty surge from the giant tipping DUPLO brick?

There is plenty to explore in Brickville, our all new interactive play village. Fight fires at the Brickville Fire Station, stay safe in the DUPLO Valley Police Station, bake cakes at our Clown’s Cake Shop and be the fairest of them all in your very own Princess Castle.

LEGO® Legends of Chima 4D Movie

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LEGO® Star Wars™ - Opens March 2013

The hugely popular LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Model Display will host its very own galaxy of stars in the new LEGO® Star Wars™ Gallery. See 12 of your favourite characters from the Star Wars™ movies built from LEGO bricks, with each model standing three feet tall, including Yoda, Wicket, Anakin Skywalker and Princess Leia. A must for all Star Wars™ fanatics!

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