Events & Entertainment, Wimborne | Posted on September 22nd, 2025 | return to news

‘Dinosaur’ leads Wimborne procession

The procession was ahead of the Wimborne Minster Flower Festival entitled ‘The Delights of Dorset’, which runs from 26 to 29 September.

The people of Wimborne couldn’t quite believe their eyes on Saturday 20 September when a dinosaur, together with many other creatures, was paraded through the town.

Helpers started to gather at the home of Anthony and Christine Oliver in Park Lane from 9.30 am to carry all the accessories — which have been made out of papier mâché over the last year — to the Minster in readiness for the Flower Festival which opens on Friday 26 September and continues until Monday 29 September. Entry to the Festival is £7.50 with all proceeds going towards a proposed ramp and improved steps to make the historic church readily accessible to everyone.

The parade was led by the Rector of Wimborne Minster the Rev Canon Andrew Rowland and the Assistant Curate the Rev Marianne Mangham, together with the town crier of Wareham Jacqui Hall standing in for Wimborne’s town crier Chris Brown.

“There were plenty of onlookers who, I think were most amused by what they were seeing, especially the dinosaur,” said Anthony Oliver, the Minster’s press officer who also headed the parade carrying the Dorset Flag. The Rev Marianne also carried the Dorset Flag.

Christine Oliver has designed the festival which has the title of ‘The Delights of Dorset’. She said that she was grateful for all the help and support she has received from many volunteers over the past year in helping to make the accessories, to the many flower clubs from across Dorset and to the Minster’s team of flower arrangers who are staging the exhibits in the Minster.

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