Gallery: Rain fails to dampen spirits at Whitchurch Blackberry Fair

The festival in Whitchurch featured live entertainment with bands, poets and workshops.

Headline act Electric Swing Circus, a six-piece electro-swing band, brought the house down on the High Street stage as well as a performance by West Midland's poet Steve Pottinger. The main Blackberry Fair event boasted eight performance stages throughout the town, creative workshops for all ages and street craft and food markets.

Performers included Shrewsbury-based storyteller France O'Boyle, Whitchurch Community Choir, the amazing Ukraine Monster group and the Skiband. There was a dance event in the Civic Hall, while street entertainment include clog dancing and young singer Will Sheratt.

Whitchurch Community Choir co-founder and treasurer Ray Hatton said: "Every year the Blackberry Fair seems to to grow in terms of the number of activities on offer. It was all very interesting.

"We performed a set lasting just under an hour of folk songs from across the world. It wasn't the best conditions due to the wet and cold, but we thought the crowd appreciated our music. There were quite a number of people in town for the festival and it was a good turnout."

Ahead of the celebration event Blackberry Fair celebrated children's author Roald Dahl's 100th birthday by showing of the film adaptation of James and the Giant Peach outdoors by torchlight.

It featured storytelling and a peaches and cream supper.

Other events at the fair featured the film Sing Street which was shown at the Talbot Theatre.